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As the U.S. economy continues to progress at a less-than-robust pace and motor carriers looking to improve their bottom line turn to the potentially risky tactic of diversifying their service offerings, experts, tech firms and carrier execs said one way to reduce the risk is to adapt the fleets’ existing technology to the new services.

I’m proud to be a member of the North American heavy-truck supplier community. Together, we’ve made significant strides in Class 8 truck brake safety, but not since the introduction of non-asbestos brake linings more than 20 years ago has the heavy-duty industry seen technological changes to brakes as significant as those we are experiencing today.

EBE Technologies said it generated record revenue results for its 2012 fiscal second quarter.

While radio frequency identification technology has been viewed for years by freight carriers as simply a way for shippers to keep track of inventory, the marriage of advanced electronics and RFID technology is, in fact, creating new ways for carriers and shippers to utilize the tags.

Qualcomm Inc. said it has made its low-cost MCP50 electronic onboard recorder available for sale.

For 18 years, regulators have been wrestling with a congressional mandate to issue a rule prohibiting trucks from proceeding into railroad crossings unless there is adequate space on the other side to avoid getting trapped on the tracks.

McLeod Software Corp. has released LoadMaster Enterprise and PowerBroker Version 11.0.

Truck makers and technology companies are working to expand onboard vehicle electronics’ capacity to handle the many sensors, components and computers pushing current infrastructure to its limit.