CCJ Equipment Editor Jack Roberts, along with CCJ sister site Truck Parts & Service Online Editor Jason Cannon, hit the road this morning with Freightliner’s Team Run Smart in owner-operator Henry Albert’s Freightliner Cascadia Evolution. The crew left Tuscaloosa, Ala., …
The ports of Brunswick and Savannah, Georgia are the closest to the state capital, Atlanta, the New York City of the south, and are also ideally located to service the major metropolitan areas of Birmingham, Alabama, Charlotte, North Carolina and Tennessee’s Memphis and Nashville.
With the “new norm†cost of diesel at $4 per gallon, fleets should be looking at every possible opportunity to lower fuel consumption. Like no other time in the trucking industry, every drop counts. A tractor-trailer combo or driver able to improve fuel economy by a mile per gallon gained is huge in savings terms. […]
Following table discussions at the Automotive Logistics Russia conference held in Moscow in June this year, Renault Nissan, together with a number of OEMs and logistics providers, have revealed that they are planning to set up a new automotive logistics interest group for manufacturers and providers operating in the country.
Grant Belanger will return to Dearborn this autumn to head up Ford Motor Company’s logistics as executive director for global material planning and logistics (MP&L) and parts supply and logistics (PS&L). He replaces Steve Harley (pictured left), who will return to Europe to oversee a series of model transfers to Spain and Germany as director of […]
There is currently much discussion about the re-shoring of manufacturing ‘home’ to the US, with reports of companies bringing back production of products ranging from high-tech gadgets to garments. The automotive industry has been no exception
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According to recent studies, forecasts on the impact the new hours of service rule will have on the industry may have been overstated and cell phones may not be the crash-causers most believe them to be.
A Georgia motor carrier, the latest of more than 20 trucking companies to file fuel-rebate fraud lawsuits against Pilot Flying J, is seeking to depose Pilot CEO Jimmy Haslam in October. Cedar Creek Trucking, Dalton, Ga., filed a lawsuit
