FMCSA to Publish Details of Mexico Trucking Pilot Program
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week proposed its plan for a three-year pilot program in which Mexican and U.S. carriers could offer long-distance service into each country.The program is the result of an agreement between Presi…
Senate Bill Would Create Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Test Results
The Senate last week opened another front in the long-running effort to establish a national clearinghouse for truck driver drug and alcohol test results.The Safe Roads Act of 2011, introduced by Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman, both Republicans f…
Freight Payments Up 33.6% Over Last Year, Cass Reports
Freight movements soared 6.9 percent in March, the first sizeable rise since August 2010, according to the March 2011 Cass Freight Index.
Dealer of the Year Nominees Talk About 2010 Engines
The five nominees for the American Truck Dealers/Heavy Duty Trucking Truck Dealer of the Year report that new engines meeting the 2010 emissions standards so far seem to be causing fewer problems than their 2002/04 and 2007 counterparts, and that su…
Got a Million-Mile Engine?
How much is a million? A children’s book says it would take 23 days to even count to a million and that a goldfish bowl large enough to hold a million goldfish could hold a whale. For truckers, a million miles is about 10 years.
Freescale Semiconductor and Fuji Electric partner on IGBT technology for hybrids and EVs
Freescale Semiconductor has entered into a strategic alliance with Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fuji Electric Holdings Co., Ltd., to collaborate on insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology and products for hy…
International Battery to develop hybrid Li-ion/ultracap energy storage system for tanks and Stryker vehicles
International Battery has been awarded a $730,441 contract from the US Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to develop a hybrid energy storage solution for combat tanks and Stryker armored vehicles. The system …
Dow and OPXBIO collaborating on renewable route to acrylic acid
The Dow Chemical Company and OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) are collaborating to develop an industrial scale process for the production of bio-based acrylic acid from renewable feedstocks. (OPXBIO is also developing, with ARPA-E project funding, di…
Driven to succeed
Francisco Franco started his own trucking business in the Port of LA at 18 with just one rig.
Peugeot launching China-designed hybrid concept crossover at Shanghai show
Peugeot is staging the world premiere of a gasoline hybrid concept crossover, fully studied and developed by the China Tech Centre in Shanghai, at the Shanghai 2011 Motor Show.
The company is also introducing its the new 508 destined for the Chinese …