Latest News Updates From Daniel W. Guido

The owner of the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international truck crossing in the United States, filed an application July 13 to build another span of the bridge linking the United States and Canada.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Truck equipment manufacturer Eaton Corp. has unveiled several products for heavy-duty trucks, including a new automated transmission, a hybrid electric power system and a diesel exhaust aftertreatment system.

WASHINGTON — A panel of intermodal experts urged Congress at a recent Capitol Hill hearing to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, which includes improving secondary roads leading to and from ports and rail yards.

Tank truck carrier Transport Service Co., Oak Brook, Ill., said June 13 it agreed to buy the chemical transportation assets of tank truck carrier Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Houston.

Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire LLC said June 2 it will spend about $44 million to build a 1-million-square-foot distribution center at the Port of Jacksonville, Fla.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Intermodal companies face numerous hurdles in creating a national pool of chassis for domestic cargo, but eventually railroads, trucking companies and shippers will make it happen, a panel of intermodal executives said.

WASHINGTON — An official with Volvo Trucks North America said the company expects the driving stabilization system built with Bendix that helps prevent rollovers will be utilized by about half or more of the buyers of its Class 8 trucks by the end of the decade, up from about 25% today.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — To keep intermodal terminals working as the volume of containers keeps increasing, operators should develop “virtual terminals” that use technology to track containers and chassis, monitor truck traffic and share information, said speakers during the Intermodal Association of North America’s conference here May 2-3.

ATLANTA — Next year’s lower-emission truck engines should prove to be as reliable and as fuel efficient as current models, avoiding the problems carriers faced in the last round of emissions cuts, truck and engine builders said.

Truck dealers said they are making plans to weather the expected slowdown in heavy-duty truck sales next year, even as 2006 shapes up as one of their best sales year ever.