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April 1, 2006
Selling our highways
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY JIM MELE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Last month Indiana agreed to sell its toll road to a private consortium of Australian and Spanish investors. Actually, they're just renting it. In return...
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Federal ID cards blank
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY LARRY KAHANER, WASHINGTON, DC
The flap over the failed purchase of six U.S. ports by United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World has focused renewed attention on port security and...
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Lines drawn in HOS fight
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
TERRENCE NGUYEN
Get ready for another court battle this time over the revised hours-of-service (HOS) rule that went into effect last year. The American Trucking Assns....
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Overnite becomes UPS Freight
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
United Parcel Service is changing the name of its Overnite Corp. subsidiary the holding company for Overnite Transportation and Motor Cargo to UPS Freight,...
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Power to move
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
WENDY LEAVITT
Hundreds of carriers and industry suppliers gathered in Orlando March 12-15 for the 68th annual Truckload Carriers Convention. They came to discuss the...
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Truckstop as Interstate Oasis
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is moving forward with a proposal to apply federal standards to existing truckstops and other privately-owned...
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TAX FILE: Suit attacks phone tax
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
KEN SIMONSON
Several large companies have recently won federal appeals court rulings that the 3% federal telephone tax is illegal when applied to unmetered long-distance...
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going places
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Freightliner LLC has named Rich Ferguson president of Freightliner Market Development. He replaces Bill Gordon, who is leaving the used truck business...
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Medium-Duty '07: The inside story
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY DAVID CULLEN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
When medium-duty trucks meeting EPA-'07 diesel emissions regulations roll out next year, buyers, drivers and techs alike will be hard-pressed to see much...
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Shell game
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY KEN SIMONSON e-mail: ksimonson@erols.com
Can truckers be confident that federal highway taxes will not rise? The administration's budget, released on February 6, appeared to show that the federal...
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Recipe for recession
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY MARTIN LABBE
How much of a decline in the economy can we expect once freight services are negatively affected by widespread gridlock, continued driver shortages and...
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Getting it right
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY JIM YORK
I'm so upset, I just don't know where to begin. That was how one member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reacted to a staff presentation...
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'07: The cost of clean
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
SEAN KILCARR
A clearer picture of the costs associated with running vehicles that meet EPA's more stringent 2007 emission standards is finally beginning to emerge....
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bulletins
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Carrier Corp. is now the exclusive aftermarket distributor of Teleflex APUs. The auxiliary power and climate control units will be sold under the name...
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Toyota grows Tundra
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DAVID CULLEN
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. (TMS) rolled out its all-new next generation Tundra full-size pickup truck at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Atlanta. The 2007-model...
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Shell rolls out digital engine inspection
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Shell Lubricants has introduced its Shell VideoCheck inspection service, which uses a miniature digital camera to view the inside of combustion chambers....
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Volvo announces '07 engine pricing
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
SEAN KILCARR
Volvo Trucks North America plans to add $7,500 to the base sticker price of its 2007 highway and vocational models to cover the cost of emission control...
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ArvinMeritor springs ahead
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
ArvinMeritor's Commercial Vehicle Systems introduced the Meritor SimilAir, a composite mechanical spring for trailers in linehaul and general service...
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ESP for trucks, too
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
TERRENCE NGUYEN
Bendix's ABS-6 Advanced with ESP (electronic stability program) is not just for tractor-trailers anymore. Case in point, the manufacturer invited the...
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Arrow's high standards
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
When Arrow Truck Sales puts the Arrow Certified designation on a pre-owned heavy-duty vehicle, it's an indication that the truck has been through the...
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Sterling swings wide
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DAVID CULLEN
Sterling Truck Corp. rolled out its new low-cab-over-engine truck, the Sterling 360, at the Work Truck Show last month. Promoted with the tag line Better...
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Fan drive for '07 engines
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Horton has introduced the VMaster Ultra fan drive, designed to cool the higher-horsepower, hotter-running '07-compliant engines. The direct-controlled...
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Solar charge for VeriWise
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
GE Equipment Services announced the availability of a new solar panel option for its VeriWise Asset Intelligence telematics system during the TCA convention...
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Freightliner goes racing
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DAVID CULLEN
At a news conference before the Daytona 500, Freightliner Trucks announced its official sponsorship of NASCAR and that it's returning as a 2006 sponsor...
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Body builder pumps up
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Freightliner Trucks rolled out its latest version of body builder information, the Business Class M2 Resource CD, version 3.0, at the NTEA World Truck...
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Series 60 gets ready for '07
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
WENDY LEAVITT
Detroit Diesel Corp. (DDC), in collaboration with Freightliner LLC, has been on an aggressive development and testing schedule for 2007, according to...
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Wireless tire monitoring
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Dana Corp.'s Commercial Vehicle Systems group and partner SmarTire Systems have introduced a wireless tire pressure monitoring system called SmartWave,...
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Delo ELC lives even longer
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Through a new formulation, Chevron Products Co. is boosting the lifespan of its Delo and Texaco Extended Life Coolants (ELC) to 8 yr./750,000 mi., and...
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Figuring it out
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY SEAN KILCARR e-mail: sean.kilcarr@penton.com
Spec'ing and buying trucks is never an easy task. And the more complicated the equipment, the more challenging it becomes. Take fire trucks, for example....
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Revised FET
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY KEVIN ROHLWING
When the American Jobs Creation Act went into effect on January 1, 2005, the calculation for the Federal Excise Tax (FET) on truck tires changed from...
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Back to the future
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DAVID CULLEN
To say Scott Kunselman knows a bit about engineering vehicles is a substantial understatement. The chief engineer for Dodge Ram is now in his 21st year...
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Enter Quaero
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY WENDY LEAVITT e-mail: wleavitt@primediabusiness.com
Google, AskJeeves, Yahoo, Vivisimo, Alta Vista, MSN, good old aol.com and other Internet search engines do their sleuthing via keywords. Even if a picture...
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the last word
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
For Pete's sake! In what it calls a daring test of strength, the Snap-on Tools Co. mounted this Peterbilt dump on six of its tool storage units. The Snap-on...
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Get off the firing line
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY DAVID CULLEN e-mail: david.cullen@penton.com
No one I know, least of all yours truly, likes being called on the proverbial carpet. But it's the bosses who have a worn spot in that rug in front of...
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ADVANCED SAFETY SYSTEMS: Finding the ROI
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY SEAN KILCARR, SENIOR EDITOR
You'd be hard pressed to find a fleet that doesn't think installing more safety systems on trucks would be a good thing. And most would also agree that...
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Behavior-based safety
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY GARY PETTY
How does a company change an institutional culture for better safety results? The answer lies in both top down and bottom up changes in behavior. One...
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Beyond the Rates
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY LARRY KAHANER
It's a good time to finance your business. Interest rates are low, the economy is still growing and there are lots of aggressive lenders with ready cash....
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what's new in: Batteries
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DEBORAH MCGUFFIE
As if the drain imposed on batteries by today's trucks with their heavy electrical loads isn't enough of an issue, anti-idling laws in many states are...
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Little by little
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
SEAN KILCARR
Manager: Capt. Walter W. Lee Title: Engineering Officer Fleet: Minneapolis Fire Department Operation: Fire and rescue fleet PROBLEM One of any fire department's...
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Concrete wanted
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
DEBORAH MCGUFFIE
Ferrara Brothers Building Materials Corp. has got its plate full with all the municipal construction projects going on in New York City. Joseph J. Ferrara...
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Truckers join AMBER Alert
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
TERRENCE NGUYEN
The launch of the AMBER Alert Highway Network aimed at helping recover abducted children quickly and safely has been established by Qualcomm Inc. in partnership...
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Management module for contract maintenance
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Fleets using the Platinum version of Dossier Maintenance software from Arsenault Assocs. can now handle contract and third-party accounts with a new Customer...
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off the wire
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
The DocuPen RC800 from Planon Systems Solutions is a color document scanner that can hold up to 100 documents in its onboard Flash memory. It also supports...
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Down to the pallet
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
RFTrax and Identec announced at the CeBit Conference in Hannover, Germany, that they have partnered to combine Identec's RFID-based technology with RFTrax's...
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PrePass relaunches website
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Using a catalog format to make navigation easier, HELP Inc. has redesigned the website for PrePass electronic bypass and toll collection service. The...
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Tracker approved for DOD freight
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Fleets hauling ordnance for the Dept. of Defense can now use TransCore's GlobalWave data communications terminal to wirelessly track and monitor their...
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Tripmaster sells shares
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Control Instruments Group Limited of South Africa has acquired a majority share in Tripmaster Corp. Tripmaster will continue selling and supporting its...
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Routing directory released
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Nearly doubling the number of entries from last year, the TTS Carrier Routing Directory (CRD) provides service information for 8,849 carriers, according...
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In the DriverSeat
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
TMW Systems plans a May release for DriverSeat, a web-based solution to provide drivers with a comprehensive set of services designed to help manage their...
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SkyBitz, TA forge battery deal
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Trailer tracking provider SkyBitz and national truck stop chain TravelCenters of America (TA) have formed a partnership that allows TA to sell and replace...
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ACE in the hole
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
BY JIM MELE, EDITOR IN CHIEF
The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and its related are an entirely new approach to border security that also promises to speed up truck clearances...
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