The U.S. Treasury now expects to lose $9.7 billion selling the General Motors stock it received in 2009 after its bailout of the automaker. Taxpayers are still owed about $14 billion from the $49.5 billion in loans provided to GM
The U.S. Treasury now expects to lose $9.7 billion selling the General Motors stock it received in 2009 after its bailout of the automaker. Taxpayers are still owed about $14 billion from the $49.5 billion in loans provided to GM
You’re proud of your fleet’s graphics, right? Your trucks and your trailers get lots of onlookers and plenty of attention on the road, so why not let your peers see them?
The movement of the vehicles, which is being handled in part by road haulier Cassens Transport and began on Tuesday 22, will ease storage problems that have arisen at Toledo where volumes have built above 9,500 units.
Recent changes in the hours-of-service rule have delivered yet another regulatory blow to the trucking industry’s overall operating efficiency and its ability to retain qualified drivers, a panel of fleet executives concluded this week. And, most critically, the changes could have a negative impact on truck safety.
With experienced truck drivers harder and harder to come by, carriers increasingly are turning to driving schools and beefing up their own finishing programs. But, as a panel of fleet executives concluded, top-of-line training and eye-popping recruiting budgets go to waste if trucking companies don’t take a little extra time to make sure drivers, experienced […]
Within the vehicle logistics industry which transports millions of cars a year, there is a small, niche sector which is, nevertheless, vital to every OEM. This often unheralded segment deals with the shipment of test cars, prototypes, show vehicles, racing and classic cars often in conditions of absolute secrecy and security.
For some carmakers, especially in Europe, North Africa represents the next great frontier. In 2012, Algeria sold 450,000 new vehicles; Egypt 288,000 units; Morocco 126,000; and Tunisia 54,000. Outside of Egypt, growth this year has been strong, including a 10% sales increase in Algeria.
During his annual “State of the Industry†address at the 2013 American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Gov. Bill Graves, ATA president and CEO said the trucking industry is poised for success despite the myriad of changes and challenges that are occurring in Washington and in the industry.
— and create more opportunity than government ever has and more revenue than any tax increase. Such growth, former two-term Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told attendees at the annual American Trucking Associations