Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2014 Xpert vehicles manufactured July 11, 2011, through March 5, 2014. The bolts securing the brake valve to the cab may be below the required torque which could cause a failure in the connection of the airlines and the brake valve. Thus, the vehicles do not […]
Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2014 Xpert vehicles manufactured July 11, 2011, through March 5, 2014. During manufacturing, the floor mat may have been captured between the seat brackets and the cab sheet metal at all four connection points. This could cause the torque on the bolts to relax to below […]
Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) is recalling certain model year 2014 International TranStar trucks manufactured in March 2013 and equipped with certain Cummins Westport Model ISL G compressed natural gas engines (feature code 12CBA). Condensation in the intake manifold may freeze during cold weather conditions and interfere with the proper operation of the intake manifold pressure sensor.
Economic conditions continue to be mixed, but trucking indicators continue to be more positive than the recently reported contraction in overall U.S. economic activity. That just means, as usual, truck freight and rates can be hit and miss, depending on markets, customers and lanes. Here’s a round-up of the latest reports.
On Monday, June 2, a driver phoned Randy McGregor to report a problem: his truck was shaking and the “check engine†light was on. While they were still talking the engine shut down. About two minutes later, McGregor received an e-mail showing the truck number, truck location, and that a critical engine shutdown had occurred.
The Senate’s version of the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Transportation contains language that would prevent the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from dragging its feet in producing a final
I’m not convinced that it will take an act of Congress to make trucking’s hours-of-service rule work, but after speaking with a few folks on the front lines on Capitol Hill, I’m increasingly sympathetic to the longshot attempt. And if the play being run Thursday morning in the Senate works, it could
Trucks carried 60.1 percent of the $101.5 billion in trade between the U.S. and North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico in March, according to the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Trucking groups voiced both a list of concerns and requested changes to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse rule prior to the May 21
