Tank carriers support EOBR
National Tank Truck Carriers joins other carrier groups to support the electronic logging mandate.
Getloaded reports higher traffic
Traffic was up 42 percent from February to March.
N.A. Class 8 net orders up for seventh consecutive month
COLUMBUS, Ind. — Class 8 commercial vehicles net orders for the North American markets totalled 28,900 units (not SA) in March, more than 4,800 units higher than February, according to a report from ACT Research Company. [Full Story]
Arkansas Best’s 1Q Loss Narrows
Arkansas Best Corp. said Monday its first-quarter loss was about half that of a year ago, citing higher tonnage and an improving freight environment.
Gasoline Gains 12ยข in Two Weeks to $3.88, Lundberg Says
Gasoline’s national average rose 12 cents in the past two weeks to a national average $3.88 per gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.
Report: scale of planned Russia-Japan LNG project doubles
The Nikkei reports that a Russian-Japanese liquefied natural gas project in Vladivostok will kick off with an eye toward producing 10 million tons of LNG a year, twice as much as initially planned.
Japan is the world’s No. 1 LNG importer, taking …
Ron Widdows, a prominent leader of the global container industry,…
Ron Widdows, a prominent leader of the global container industry, will retire as group president and chief executive officer of Neptune Orient Lines, NOL Group announced Monday.
NJ state trooper, trucker rescue baby after crash
April 25, 2011 — A 3-month-old baby is alive after a New Jersey Turnpike car crash because of the efforts of a state trooper and a truck driver.
Trucker avoids crash on Route 422, but strikes bad luck
Lucky to have walked away from a crash, a local truck driver said it could have been much worse.
Report finds that 26% of global CO2 emissions come from traded goods and services
Global CO2 emissions from the production of traded goods and services have increased from 4.3 Gt CO2 in 1990 (20% of global anthropogenic emissions) to 7.8 Gt CO2 in 2008 (26%), according to a new open access study by researchers from Germany and the U…