Industry News

Bills Would Stop Truck Size, Weight Exemptions on Interstate Highways

Two members of Congress proposed a measure that would stop any state’s attempt to increase truck size and weight restrictions on the more than 220,000 miles of the National Highway System.

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Ferro Plans New Push to Raise Truck Safety by Eliminating Bad Carriers and Drivers

Anne Ferro, the nation’s top truck safety official, told tank truck executives here that while she salutes their commitment to safety, she is determined to use her agency’s authority to eliminate unsafe carriers and bad commercial drivers.  

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Qualcomm Unit That Contains Trucking Business Breaks Even

Qualcomm Inc. said the division that includes its truck technology business broke even in the company’s fiscal second quarter. Results for the company’s Omnitracs subsidiary were included with the Qualcomm Wireless & Internet, or QWI, division, which improved from a loss of $10 million before taxes in the same period last year.  

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Don’t get left behind: Yesterday’s tech won’t run tomorrow’s trucks

ne of today’s more rarified truck-driving jobs is held by lucky souls who manage to score a gig with a manufacturer. While there’s some over-the-road stuff with these jobs, it’s usually running validation tests in Canada during the winter or down in Arizona in August, and they have to adhere to strict driving guidelines while […]

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Detroit bringing automated-manual transmission to North American Freightliners

Freightliner Cascadia customers now have a new transmission option available to them. Today, at its the Mercedes-Benz transmission assembly plant in Gaggenau, Germany,

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RUSSIA COULD EXTEND RECYCLING FEE TO CUSTOMS UNION

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Commerce is proposing to extend the country’s recycling charge for imported vehicles to include Belarus and Kazakhstan, which joined a Customs Union with the Russian Federation in 2010. If the bill proposing the tax is passed it will become effective from the beginning of July this year.  

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ATA, Transportation Groups React Positively to DOT Nominee Foxx

Transportation stakeholder groups, including American Trucking Associations, reacted positively to President Obama’s announcement Monday that he has picked Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to be the next transportation secretary.  

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Obama nominates Charlotte’s Anthony Foxx to head DOT

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has been nominated to be the next Secretary of Transportation, replacing outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood. LaHood announced he would not be staying on in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet in January. LaHood was the only Republican in the president’s Cabinet in Obama’s first term.  

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PeopleNet creates applications for high-growth oil, gas industry

The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology with some of the world’s largest shale gas and oil reserves has put the United States on track to become a top energy producer. U.S. natural gas capacity is expected to expand 23 percent by 2023.  

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