IC Bus, a division of Navistar, Inc., publicly unveiled for the first time today its IC Bus CE Series school bus with Cummins ISB 6.7-liter engine at the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) Annual Summit. IC Bus announced ...
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Michelin Americas Truck Tires has added mechanical and towing to its emergency road services. The expanded offering is called Michelin OnCall 2.0 and provides mechanical, towing and tire services with tracking and reporting features. ...
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The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) advanced seasonally adjuted (SA) For-Hire Tonnage Index rose 1.4 percent in September. "I continue to be pleasantly surprised on the strength of truck tonnage," ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello ...
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Car rack manufacturer Rocky Mounts has hired Bruno Maier as president. Maier comes to the Boulder, Colorado, company with more than 20 years of industry experience, including stints at Huffy Bicycle Co., Brunswick Bicycles and Cycling ...
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The Ontario Trucking Association is urging the provincial Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to reestablish a special committee dedicated to finding ways to encourage faster clean-up of highway collisions and get traffic in vital GTA ...
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"OMG, I wish I'd never heard of this job, let alone sold it!" Sound familiar? It's August and you now have to make good on all those promises you made when you got the project. The refrain from above was after a particularly trying day ...
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Three-quarters of fleets surveyed by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), say they have or will be increasing driver pay packages in the face of a driver shortage. At an ATA Management Conference & Exhibition panel discussion, chief ...
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US for-hire truck tonnage spiked 1.4% in September, matching August's gain. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) reported that the seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index is up 8.4% compared to September 2012, marking the largest ...
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The BC Trucking Association (BCTA) has developed a new skills assessment tool called IDRIVE and is looking for 25 recent immigrants with professional truck-driving experience to participate in a pilot test to be scheduled in November or ...
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With Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a Changin" booming into the Marriott World Centre conference hall, American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves took to the stage this morning and addressed how change will transform the US ...
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Detroit Diesel Corp. announced that it is making its Detroit Connect telematics program available to mixed fleets, beginning early next year. Customers will now be able to use Detroit Connect Visibility fleet software and the on-board ...
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Decisiv has developed a Days Out of Service impact calculator fleets can use to measure the cost of downtime to their operations. Users can input a small amount of general information about their operations to determine how much it costs ...
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Navistar has announced an open architecture remote diagnostics program that works with a fleets' existing telematics provider and covers all makes of vehicles. The OnCommand Connection program was demonstrated during the American Trucking ...
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The new hours-of-service rules that went into effect earlier this year rank as the top concern among US trucking executives. The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its annual list of trucking industry concerns this ...
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ORLANDO, Fla -- The American Trucking Associations and the US trucking industry have long held an affinity for the Republican Party. Yet, as was foreshadowed by the playing of Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changin" as ATA president took ...
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