Gary Salisbury Elected 2011-2012 TCA Chairman
Gary Salisbury, president and chief executive officer of Fikes Truck Line of Hope, Ark., has been elected as 2011-2012 chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA).
PTDI Honors Carl Spatocco with Lee J. Crittenden Memorial Award
The Professional Truck Driver Institute has awarded its 13th annual Lee J. Crittenden Memorial Award to Carl Spatocco
Senator Kerry Introduces Infrastructure Bank Bill
At a press conference Tuesday, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), announced legislation to create an infrastructure bank that would help close America’s widening infrastruct…
TCA Names Winners of National Fleet Safety Award,
Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd., of Breslau, Ontario, and Bison Transport of Winnipeg, Manitoba are the grand prize winners of the Truckload Carriers Association National Fleet Safety Awards.
You Can Run, But Sometimes You Can’t Get By Good-Guy Truckers
Most truckers are good guys and good citizens who appreciate law and order.Their tractor-trailers make good road blocks, and drivers have been known to deploy them to help police officers capture criminals on the run.
Trucker pleads not guilty in Hubbard crash
A 63-year-old truck driver from Shiloh entered pleas of not guilty Wednesday to a series of misdemeanors in connection with a triple fatal accident May 24 in Hubbard.
Valvoline Introduces “NextGen” Recycled Motor Oil
File this one in your “ideas I should have had, but didn’t” files, because Valvoline has introduced a new line of high-quality motor oil that is 50% recycled with no adverse impact (the company claims) on performance.
Valvoline’s new oil products …
Appeals court rules against CN
An appellate court has upheld federal conditions placed on Canadian National Railway in its hotly debated, 2008 purchase of the 200-mile EJ&E track encircling Chicago.
4-cylinder engines now account for 46% of Chevrolet retail sales, up from 23% in 2007
In 2007, four-cylinder models represented 23% of Chevrolet retail sales in the US— less than either V-6 or V-8 equipped models. So far this year, that number has increased to 46%, making fuel-efficient four-cylinder engines the top choice in the Chev…
AE Biofuels secures additional $3.5M for Start-up of 55M gpy ethanol plant; cellulosic to come
AE Biofuels, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned advanced ethanol subsidiary AE Advanced Fuels Keyes, Inc., closed a $3.5 million financing with Third Eye Capital Corporation. The funds will be used to restart and operate a 55 million gallon per year …