TMW, NAVTEQ complete data licensing agreement

TMW Systems announced the completion of a multi-year agreement to license NAVTEQ map data for a development program that will bring new geographic visualization and routing tools to customers of TMW’s extended software product portfolio...

PRIDE Transport switches
220 tractors to DriverTech

Salt Lake City UT-based PRIDE Transport Inc is equipping 220 of its tractors with DriverTech systems....

Azure LEEP Freeze plus
Kidron UltraTemp equals
cool decision for dairy

Azure Dynamics Corporation has received an order from Kidron Body Company for nine Low Emission Electric Power (LEEP Freeze) systems for Foster Farms Dairy....

US Foodservice salutes
winners of first vendor
recognition program

US Foodservice has announced the recipients of its first annual vendor recognition program....

DOT summit spotlights
distracted-driving issue

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called for regulations to ban cell phone use while operating commercial vehicles. The call to action came during a special distracted-driving summit meeting convened September 30-October 1 by the Department of Transportation (DOT)....

SkyBitz adds cellular-based
GPS tracking options to suite

SkyBitz is expanding its suite to include cellular-based GPS tracking options....

Mack to continue as sponsor
of Share the Road in 2010

Mack Trucks Inc announced it would continue as a major sponsor of the Share The Road highway safety education program for 2010....

Volvo will continue sponsorship
of America’s Road Team in 2010

Volvo Trucks North America will continue as the sole sponsor of America’s Road Team in 2010....

Ohio gets up to speed
with PrePass Plus system

Ohio has brought E-ZPass online effective October 1, and PrePass Plus is operational for toll payment without any action by its customers....

Kenworth adds Allison LBSS
as select transmission feature

Kenworth Truck Company now offers Allison Transmission’s Load-Based Shift Scheduling (LBSS) as a standard feature on select Allison transmissions with Kenworth Class 8 and medium-duty trucks....

SmartDrive Distracted Driving
Index designed to boost safety

SmartDrive Systems introduced the SmartDrive Distracted Driving Index, a quarterly benchmark of commercial fleet driving distraction....

CR England wins award
for environmental
excellence from EPA

CR England Inc, a global transportation provider based in Salt Lake City UT, has received an Environmental Excellence Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Transport Partnership....

Greatwide Logistics
Services invests
in new technologies

Greatwide Logistics Services, a national provider of non-asset-based transportation and third-party logistics services, has committed significant investments in several new technologies to enhance its offerings for customers....

StarTrak Systems signs
multi-year contract
with FFE Transportation

Alanco Technologies Inc announced that its StarTrak Systems subsidiary has entered into a four-year contract valued in excess of $3 million with FFE Transportation Services Inc for fleetwide deployment of StarTrak’s ReeferTrak reefer monitoring and management services....

SLO County Organics picks
GREENTrace software

SLO County Organics, a San Luis Obispo CA-based specialty grower/harvester of USDA certified organic vegetables, has selected InSync Software Inc’s GREENTrace iApp software application to track pallets of fresh produce....

Port terminal operators meet CARB clean trucks deadline

Marine terminal operators at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach CA announced they have met the deadline to comply with a new clean trucks regulation from the California Air Resources Board (CARB)...

Transplace highlights effect of NAFTA on exports, trade

Dallas TX-based Transplace experiences firsthand the city’s connection of major interstates, multiple airports, extensive rail systems, and close proximity to Gulf of Mexico freight ports...

Detroit Diesel applies to EPA for DD13, DD15 certification

Having recently completed more than 25 million miles of testing with its BlueTec emissions control system, Detroit Diesel Corporation has filed applications with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) for 2010 certification of Detroit Diesel DD13 and DD15 engines with BlueTec emissions control systems...

Delhaize Group plans
to purchase majority
of assets of BI-LO

Delhaize Group, the Belgian international food retailer, has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with BI-LO LLC to acquire a substantial majority of BI-LO’s assets, including associated inventory, for a purchase price of US$425 million in cash....