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Preliminary Class 8 data
shows surge in orders

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing September 2010 Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 14,872 units, a 21.6% increase over the previous month and 38.8% better than September 2009...

Trucking Conditions
Index rises in August

FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index edged higher in August 2010 to a reading of 2.3. ...

First-time contestant Schlecht
wins TMC Skills Competition

First-time competitor Jeffrey Schlecht, Omaha Truck Center, Norfolk NE, was recognized as trucking industry’s top technician after being named grand champion of the Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) 2010 National Technician Skills Competition, held in Raleigh NC recently....

Sales of used Class 8
vehicles up 55% in August

Reported sales of used Class 8 commercial vehicles were up 55% in August 2010 compared with the prior year on a “same dealer” basis, according to ACT Research Co. ...

PremierCare Connect
helps Proffer Produce
control supply chain costs

Once a year, Proffer Produce owner and president Benjy Proffer examines his maintenance shop’s profit-and-loss reports to determine which equipment to replace based on the amount of money spent on repairs....

Clean Energy Fuels teams
with Pilot to provide NG
truck fueling nationwide

Clean Energy Fuels Corporation has signed an agreement with Pilot Travel Centers LLC to build, own, and operate public access, compressed and liquefied natural gas (CNG/LNG) fueling facilities at agreed-upon Pilot Flying J truck travel centers nationwide....

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
plunges 2.7% in August

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 2.7% in August 2010, which was the largest month-to-month decrease since March 2009....

Air-Weigh offers LoadMaxx
series in-cab display option

Air-Weigh announces a new in-cab display option for the LoadMaxx series of truck and tractor scales....

Class 8 commercial vehicle
net orders climb in August

August net orders of heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles were up 15% from August 2009, according to ACT Research Co. ...

CTP hails Obama administration
inclusion of Maine, Vermont
truck weight increase proposal

The Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP), a group of more than 160 shippers and allied associations dedicated to responsibly increasing federal weight limits on Interstate highways, applauded the Obama administration for including a provision in the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution that formally asks Congress make permanent two pilot programs that give heavier, six-axle trucks full access to Interstate highways in Maine and Vermont. ...

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