Truck tonnage in December rose 1.4% from a year ago, American Trucking Associations said in its seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index.
January 25, 2008BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Con-way TL Selects Qualcomm as New Communications System
Herb Schmidt, president of Con-way Truckload, said the carrier will replace its Geologic mobile communications equipment with Qualcomm’s OmniVision system.
January 28, 2008BusinessGovernmentSafetyTechnologyEquipment
Johnson Refrigerated Develops System for Automatic Defrost on Truck Bodies
Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies said that it has developed an automatic defrost option for its fiberglass truck bodies that is “100% automatic, requires zero man-hours [and] no water.â€
January 28, 2008GovernmentBusinessSafety
Court Rejects Hours of Service Challenge
A federal court rejected a request that it overturn the driver hours-of-service rule retaining controversial longer driving times that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued last month.
January 28, 2008BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Iteris Reports Higher 3Q Income
Iteris Inc., which makes lane-departure warning systems for the trucking industry, reported its fiscal third-quarter profit improved from a year ago.
January 25, 2008GovernmentBusinessSafetyAutonomous
Florida Banning Trucks from Left Lane of Turnpike Stretch
Florida officials are banning trucks from the left lane of a 40-mile stretch of the Florida Turnpike in South Florida starting Friday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
January 25, 2008BusinessSafety
Trucking Carried More Than 10 Billion Tons of Freight in ’06, ATA Says
The U.S. trucking industry hauled more goods than ever before in 2006, the American Trucking Associations said Friday.
January 25, 2008GovernmentBusinessSafety
Court Rebuffs Public Citizen on HOS Rule
A federal court has rejected a request by several advocacy groups, led by Public Citizen, seeking to overturn the interim hours-of-service rule issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last month.
January 24, 2008BusinessSafetyGovernment
Covenant Reports Fourth-Quarter Profit
Covenant Transportation Group earned $176,000, or 1 cent per share in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $894,000, or 6 cents, a year earlier.
January 24, 2008BusinessSafetyGovernment
Knight’s Fourth-Quarter Income Drops
Truckload carrier Knight Transportation’s fourth-quarter profit fell to $13.8 million, or 16 cents a share, from $18.9 million, or 23 cents, a year ago.
January 24, 2008