ArvinMeritor opens new
technical center in India

ArvinMeritor officially opened a new technical center that will lead the company’s advanced product development initiatives for its portfolio of axles and brakes for commercial and other vehicle applications in the Asia Pacific....

TriPac APU system gains
programmable controller

Thermo King has added another new feature, a controller with more programmability, to the TriPac hybrid auxiliary idle reduction and temperature management system (APU)....

Thermo King offers fall
rebates for Espar heaters

Thermo King announces a new promotion this autumn for customers purchasing select Espar heaters from participating dealers....

Mansfield Oil, Yara team to focus on fleet emissions

In an partnership agreement announced September 21, Mansfield Oil Company and Yara International are combining forces to provide North American fleets with a diesel engine exhaust system that meets 2010 Clean Air Act standards...

The DAWG monitoring tool goes cross-platform

TMW Systems announced that its exception alerting system, The DAWG, is now a fully cross-platform system that includes a native AS/400/IBM i version for the TL2000 enterprise transportation software and TMT Fleet Maintenance-IBM I systems...

ATA council announces
safety award recipients

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) Safety Management Council announced its 2009 award winners at its Safety & Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition in Baltimore MD recently....

Foodservice carbon
calculator to be designed

ARAMARK Higher Education has partnered with Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) to support CA-CP’s development of the “CHarting Emissions from Food Services” (CHEFS) foodservice carbon calculator....

First cage-free
pasteurized shell eggs
can protect consumers

National Pasteurized Eggs announced that it is now producing the industry’s first cage-free pasteurized shell egg to serve the foodservice industry and consumers throughout the United States....

Volvo Bio-DME trucks taking part in field tests

In 2010, Volvo Trucks will start conducting field tests involving Bio-DME. This is a biofuel that generates very low carbon dioxide emissions. In the long term, it has the potential to replace 50% of diesel used for transport operations in Europe...

PSI’s first Carl Tapp Award goes to Baca

Pressure Systems International has chosen Rosemary Baca as the first recipient of the Carl Tapp Award...

Unit of Terra Industries launches new website

Terra Industries Inc announced that Terra Environmental Technologies Inc (TET), a wholly owned Terra subsidiary, has launched a new website at www.tet-terra.com...

Class 8 commercial vehicle
net orders reach highest
level since November 2008

Heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicle net orders inched up in August 2009 to their highest level since November 2008....

TMW Managed Services
aims to cut costs, risks

TMW Systems, developer and integrator of transportation management software for the trucking industry, announced the launch of TMW Managed Services....

FMCSA agrees to extend comment period for UCR fee increase proposal

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has agreed to extend the comment period for the proposed increase to the Unified Carrier Registration Agreement (UCRA) fees after receipt of TRALA’s letter asking for more time...

Trucking Conditions Index shows some improvement

The FTR Trucking Conditions Index ticked up slightly in August 2009, but at a reading of –20.18 still remains well below a neutral reading of 0...

Commercial vehicle market poised for upward crawl

Production of new heavy- and medium-duty commercial vehicles reached a trough in the second quarter of 2009, with the third quarter projected to be the start of a slow but steady recovery, according to ACT Research Co...

Cascadia promotes campaign to remember heroic Flight 93

Daimler Trucks North America will have a hand in an initiative co-owned by The HALO Foundation and Road Scholar Transport: “93 Cents for Flight 93” campaign, a fund-raising endeavor commemorating the passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93, who lost their lives Sept 11, 2001...

Ridewell expands suspension lines

Ridewell announces the release of two new RAR-260 30,000-lb-capacity suspensions....

Doran 360 to be integrated
with DriverTech TruckPC

Doran Manufacturing and DriverTech have reached a collaborative development agreement to integrate the Doran 360 tire pressure monitoring systems with DriverTech’s Windows Embedded onboard computing and mobile communications system for truck and trailer fleets....

Airgas AiRx DEF
receives API certification

Airgas Inc announced its AiRx diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) has been certified by the American Petroleum Institute (API)....

Dealers offer IntelliRoute
TND 500 navigation device

More than 400 Freightliner, Sterling, and Western Star dealers throughout the United States are offering a new truck navigation device designed specifically for the routing and real-time navigation needs of over-the-road professional truck drivers....