Cummins Chairman and CEO Solso Appointed to Presidential Advisory Board
Cummins Inc. Chairman and CEO Tim Solso is one of 10 business leaders appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Management Advisory Board.
EOBR Alliance Decries Unfairness of DOT’s Plan to Pay for EOBRs on Mexican Trucks
A group of carriers that has been pushing mandatory electronic onboard recorders is crying foul when it comes to the Department of Transportation’s plan to fund the devices on Mexican trucks that will be operating in the U.S. under long-delayed aspe…
Southwest flight makes emergency landing in Colo. Springs
A report of smoke in the cockpit forced a Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to make an emergency landing at the Colorado Springs Airport but no one was injured.
Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality and the Renault-Nissan Alliance sign EV agreement
The Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) and the Renault-Nissan Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at establishing a partnership to promote and implement electric vehicles in Gaziantep. The partnership program will c…
PBL analysis finds that resources are not depleted, but expensive; badly functioning markets and wrong policies
Framework of the different dimensions of scarcities. Source: PBL. Click to enlarge.
Current high prices of food, oil and many other resources are indications of increasing scarcity. This scarcity, however, has little to do with stock depletion; ba…
Rand McNally Launches TruckPC Upgrades
Rand McNally introduced a series of upgrades to its TruckPC device Monday including navigation improvements, two-way communication and truck monitoring, it said.
Cobra Electronics New 29 LX LCD CB Radio
Cobra Electronics is unveiling the new 29 LX CB Radio at the Mid-America Trucking Show, March 31 through April 2 at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville.
Stopping trucks proposed to ease I-70 traffic. Matt Renoux reports. 9NEWS at 5 p.m. 3/13/11
As a politician at the state level for four years and now as Summit County Commissioner, Dan Gibbs has focused on keeping traffic flowing along Interstate 70 in the mountains.
U.S. urges citizens to avoid Japan travel
U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory urging Americans to “avoid travel to Japan at this time.” The travel advisory on Sunday comes as flights have resumed to and from Tokyo and most other Japanese cities following Friday’s earthquake and tsun…
New nanocomposite for high-capacity hydrogen storage with rapid kinetics
Schematic of hydrogen storage composite material: high-capacity Mg NCs are encapsulated by a selectively gas-permeable polymer. Credit: Jeff Urban. Click to enlarge.
Scientists with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Labo…