PHMSA proposes special permit rule to enhance safety, encourage innovation
Jan 5, 2010

In a continuing effort to improve hazardous materials safety and efficiency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) proposes incorporating 44 special permits for new safety products and technologies into the Hazardous Materials Regulations...

FMCSA raises safety requirements for new truck, bus companies
Jan 5, 2010

Enforcement is now underway for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) New Entrant Safety Assurance Process rule, which requires newly registered truck and bus companies to meet stricter safety requirements. This final rule raises the compliance standards for passing new entrant safety audits and requires that new carriers correct safety deficiencies before being granted permanent registration...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
jumps 2.7% in November
Jan 5, 2010

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.7% in November 2009, following a 0.2% contraction in October...

USDG begins operations
at ethanol handling facility
Jan 5, 2010

US Development Group LLC (USDG), an industry leader in ethanol handling and distribution terminals, announced that its West Colton Rail Terminal has begun to receive and offload ethanol railcars. The terminal in Rialto CA is served by the Union Pacific Railroad and is less than a mile from gasoline blending terminals that supply the greater San Bernardino and Riverside County-Inland Empire region...

NASDAC approves Westway Group stock listing
Dec 22, 2009

Westway Group Inc, New Orleans LA, announced today that the storage terminal operator received approval to list its Class A common stock, warrants and units on the NASDAQ Capital Market....

India construction growth brings US opportunities
Dec 22, 2009

The rise in disposable income in India has spelled boom times for the construction chemicals market, as building contractors are realizing the importance of using these products to improve construction quality...

Carriers facing cash squeeze
as receivables drag: survey
Dec 16, 2009

Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) fourth quarter Business Expectation Survey shows how carriers are adapting to the pressures of slowing receivables coupled with ongoing demands of equipment payments and truck utilization. TCP uses the quarterly surveys—as well as conversations with personal contacts—to collect the insights and opinions of the nation’s transportation industry...

NATSO recommends
US senators extend
biodiesel tax credit
Dec 16, 2009

Senate leaders to quickly extend the biodiesel tax credit before it expires December 31. An extension would ensure an affordable biodiesel supply for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and secure the environmental investments of the nation’s truckstops and travel plazas...

Study advocates enacting
climate adaptation policies
Dec 16, 2009

A new white paper asserts that short-term efforts to increase the transportation system’s resilience will reduce long-term costs from climate change and proposes federal policy options for the Obama administration and Congress to address the impacts of climate change on the transportation sector...

NACD adds new members
Dec 16, 2009

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) welcomes 21 new members and affiliates for the fourth quarter of 2009...

Video from MI addresses
safe handling of methanol
Dec 16, 2009

The Methanol Institute (MI) has produced a video titled Methanol Safe Handling: A User’s Guide that is now provided as a free DVD...

J J Keller’s FleetMentor helps
carriers prepare for CSA 2010
Dec 16, 2009

FleetMentor, the online fleet management advisor from J J Keller & Associates Inc, has launched a Roadside Inspection Tracking tool that will help carriers prepare for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010 initiative...

Commercial vehicle market
growth should surge in 2011
Dec 15, 2009

While the medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets are expected to grow modestly off weak 2009 production—the lowest level of production since 1991—the sector will see significant growth in 2011, according to ACT Research Co...

Price of diesel fuel down
for sixth week in a row
Dec 15, 2009

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide dropped for the sixth straight week, sinking 2.4 cents to $2.748 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

Global biofuels production
reduces GHGs dramatically
Dec 11, 2009

Just in time for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference now underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, new data once again confirms the significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from global biofuels production...

US economic recovery
expected to continue
in 2010, panel predicts
Dec 11, 2009

Economic growth in the United States will resume in 2010, say the nation’s purchasing and supply management executives in their December 2009 Semiannual Economic Forecast. Expectations for 2010 are for positive conditions experienced in the second half of 2009 to continue in manufacturing, while the non-manufacturing sector foresees marginal growth...

Daimler Truck Financial
tops in dealer satisfaction
Dec 11, 2009

In one of the toughest environments for the US trucking industry in years, Daimler Truck Financial achieved the number-one ranking in the annual dealer satisfaction survey conducted by the American Truck Dealers (ATD), a division of the National Automobile Dealers Association...

Failure to extend biodiesel
tax credit would impact
economy severely: study
Dec 11, 2009

The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) released a study conducted by economic analyst John M Urbanchuk. This study examined the economic impact of the biodiesel industry and the negative consequences of allowing the federal biodiesel tax credit to lapse...

Global chemical group
offers eight principles
for post-2012 GHG talks
Dec 10, 2009

Prior to the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) announced eight policy principles to guide post-2012 discussions...

Delphi agrees to supply
Allison hybrid components
Dec 10, 2009

Allison Transmission Inc has entered into a long-term business agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems LLC. Under terms of the agreement, Delphi will supply Allison Transmission with key hybrid drive system components and energy storage systems...

NACD members excel
in safety, performance,
new report indicates
Dec 10, 2009

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) has released its 2008 Membership & Performance Data Report...

Diesel fuel price retreats
for fifth consecutive week
Dec 10, 2009

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide declined for a fifth consecutive week...

Invest in highways
to rebuild economy,
ATA official tells Obama
Dec 7, 2009

Investing in highways is the quickest, most efficient way to create jobs and restore the economy, American Trucking Associations Past Chairman Charles “Shorty” Whittington told President Obama at the National Jobs Summit recently...

Commercial trailer orders
show strength in October
Dec 7, 2009

Net orders for commercial trailers in October increased 80% from September and 124% from a depressed October 2008, according to ACT Research Co...

Move over, Rudolph; Mack
also hauls holiday cheer
Dec 7, 2009

Who needs flying reindeer when Christmas arrives on a Mack truck? Two of the most famous Christmas trees in the nation were delivered this year by customers of Mack Trucks Inc: the Rockefeller Center tree in New York City and the US Capitol Christmas tree in Washington DC...

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