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Heyl Truck Lines
installs XATA Navigation 

XATA Corporation announced that Heyl Truck Lines is installing XATA Navigation, powered by ALK CoPilot Truck, in its trucks enabled with new TREQ color display units (CDUs)....

Preliminary Class 8 orders
for March show an increase 

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing Class 8 total net orders for all major North American original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) totaling 8,594 units in March, up 26% from February 2009....

Caterpillar, Navistar
form joint venture 

Caterpillar Inc and Navistar International Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to produce Caterpillar heavy-duty vocational trucks for sale in North America and form a 50/50 joint venture that will pursue global commercial truck opportunities outside of North America....

TermiNOx qualifies for EPA
Emerging Technology List 

Catalytic Solutions’ ECS TermiNOx D selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system has been approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for inclusion on the National Clean Diesel Campaign’s Emerging Technology List....

Top-performing International
dealers join Circle of Excellence 

Navistar Inc recently recognized 26 of its top-performing International dealers worldwide with the International Circle of Excellence Award....

CARB updates fleet
emissions calculator  

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has updated its fleet calculator....

Trucking industry divided on higher truck weights 

, By Sean Kilcarr, senior editor, FleetOwner.com

Not everyone within the trucking industry is in favor of legislation to raise commercial truck weight limits to 97,000 pounds. Key industry players are taking sides, each using economics, safety, and the impact on highway infrastructure and the environment as arguments for and against...

Frozen Food Express
braces for 1Q results 

Frozen Food Express Industries Inc announced that it anticipates first quarter 2009 revenues and earnings to be below those reported during the comparable period a year ago....

WABCO shifts into OptiDrive 

WABCO Holdings Inc has introduced OptiDrive as the brand name for the company’s new modular automated manual transmission system....

Kenworth brochure highlights
medium-duty hybrid vehicles 

Kenworth has produced a new brochure on its T270 Class 6 and T370 Class 7 diesel-electric hybrid trucks and tractors....

Event focuses on going green, supplemental funding 

, By Wendy Leavitt, director editorial development, FleetOwner.com

Peterbilt, Rush Truck Centers - North America's largest network of heavy- and medium-duty truck dealerships, and other supplier partners, including Eaton Roadranger, Cummins and Westport Innovations, hosted a special “Go Green” event this week in California. The purpose was to give fleets the opportunity to put the latest green trucks through their paces, and explain how supplemental federal and state funds can help fleets pay for these vehicles and/or retrofit older trucks with green technology...

Cadec Global receives
more capital from investor 

Cadec Global has raised an additional $4 million from previous investor Thule Investments....

Study looks at problems with PA Turnpike deal 

A new report on last year’s unsuccessful effort to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors illustrates the good and not-so-good elements of using large scale public-private partnerships to fund roadway infrastructure....

Dot Foods is first to redistribute
both fresh, frozen meat nationwide 

When Dot Foods Inc shipped its first case of fresh meat to the West Coast on April 6, it became the first food redistributor to offer both refrigerated and frozen meat nationwide....

Opportunities for reducing supply chain emissions 

Logistics and transportation activities contribute approximately 5% of the 50,000 mega-tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions generated by all human activity annually. ...

Installation of dynamometer
next step in CESAR's progress 

Clean Power Technologies Inc, developer of a heat recovery and hybrid power system to reduce vehicle emissions, has made a major investment at its Newhaven, United Kingdom, site with the installation of a Rolling Road simulator (or dynamometer)....

SmartWay hits
five-year mark 

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Transport Partnership program, established to save fuel, lower costs, and protect the environment, is celebrating its five-year anniversary....

Frozen Food Express expands
regional West Coast services 

Frozen Food Express Industries Inc has announced expansion of its regional service on the West Coast....

Transite Technology launches
aggregated 3PL rate service 

Transite Technology, a provider of transportation management systems, technologies, and services, has launched a groundbreaking new service: My Freight Rates....

Goodyear teams with Boss
to bolster on-highway service 

Goodyear Commercial Tire Systems is expanding its on-highway service network through a relationship with Bosselman’s Boss Truck Shops....

Doran renews supply agreement with GE 

Doran Manufacturing LLC and General Electric established a renewal to the supply agreement for electrical connection components that Doran produces for GE....

ConAgra Foods reports
strong EPS growth 

ConAgra Foods Inc, one of North America’s leading food companies, reported results for the fiscal 2009 third quarter ended February 22, 2009....

BI-LO files voluntary Chapter 11 petition 

BI-LO LLC and certain affiliates have filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the US Bankruptcy Court, District of South Carolina....

INTTRA inks long-term carrier contracts 

INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, has entered into long-term agreements with Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, and Hamburg Sud for e-commerce and professional services worth more than $100 million over the next three years....

ATA Truck Tonnage Index inches upward 

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index edged 1.7 percent higher in February 2009, marking the second consecutive month-to-month increase....

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