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Economic recovery begins;
truck freight growth lags

The recovery has begun, according to the latest issue of The North American Commercial Truck and Trailer Outlook published by FTR Associates, but the transportation industry forecast company warns that any significant freight growth is not expected until 2010 with increased orders for equipment to follow later in the year...

Class 8 net truck orders
spike upward in October

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing Class 8 net orders for all major North American OEMs totaled 21,792 units in October 2009, reflecting a definite upsurge in order activity...

Mack again receives orders
from US Army for tractors

Mack Trucks Inc has received three additional delivery orders for Mack Vision Elite model tractors from the US Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. The orders are part of a three-year, $28.5 million contract for 152 heavy-duty tractors and trailers, as well as spare parts...

Truck Driver Appreciation
Week offers a thank-you
for delivering excellence

The American Trucking Associations is taking the week of November 1–7, 2009, to honor the 3.5 million professional truck drivers that deliver America’s freight safely and securely everyday....

Newly formed council aims
to help reinvent trucking

Leaders of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s MOVE team announced that they are joining with trucking leaders to inaugurate the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)....

Cap-and-trade will do little to cut emissions, ATA warns

Proposed cap-and-trade legislation will impose significant costs on the trucking industry and all consumers while doing little to reduce carbon emissions from trucking, American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice-Chairman Barbara Windsor said at a press conference on Capitol Hill...

Bendix supports NHTSA findings on value of ESC

Bendix Commercial Vehicle System LLC supports the conclusions of a study released by the federal government showing that Electronic Stability Control (ESC), also known as Electronic Stability Program (ESP), on heavy trucks (above 10,000 lbs) can both substantially reduce the number of annual heavy-truck crashes and prevent injuries and deaths...

Peterbilt leads the field
in customer satisfaction
for medium-duty trucks

Peterbilt Motors Company achieved the highest ranking in customer satisfaction in the JD Power and Associates 2009 Medium Duty Truck Customer Satisfaction Study in the conventional medium-duty truck segment....

ATA urges improvement
in border infrastructure

Improving security and efficiency of freight transportation across borders will require more funds for infrastructure, more reasonable enforcement of trade security program rules, and giving the lead role in coordinating federal efforts to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, Celadon Group Inc Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Russell told a congressional panel....

ATA, Port of Long Beach
officials reach settlement

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) Executive Committee and the Port of Long Beach (CA) Harbor Commissioners have each approved a settlement negotiated between port officials and ATA and trucking industry representatives...

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