The Army and the Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations signed a three-year agreement to develop and validate advanced technologies that could be used in both commercial and military vehicles.

Trucking managers will focus on personnel, safety and security issues at the Southern Regional Conference of American Trucking Associations' Safety & Loss Prevention Management Council April 28-29 in Atlanta, sponsors said.

Tom Newby believes that a far-flung maintenance operation can run at peak performance only if procedures are standardized as much as possible and employees act on ways to improve the workplace.

The result of the Technology and Maintenance Council’s nearly five decades of developing recommended practices covers more than 1,400 pages bound in two volumes.

The Technology and Maintenance Council, in an effort to become more diversified, extended a membership invitation to managers of specialized and vocational truck fleets in October. Now, incoming chairman Tom Newby wants to tap TMC's growing diversity to expand the range of the recommended practices, the development of which may be the most important work the council does.

International Truck and Engine Corp. will not use selective catalytic reduction technology on its own heavy-duty engines to meet federal 2007 emissions standards because SCR requires a fuel additive that International believes will not be widely available, a top company official said.

PHOENIX — International Truck and Engine Corp., making slight headway in a trucking-business environment that company President Steven Keate called "the toughest in a generation," had mixed response to a "ride-and-drive" promotion for potential buyers here last week.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Diesel engine manufacturers need the Environmental Protection Agency to decide this year whether it will allow them to use selective catalytic reduction technology to meet strict 2007 emissions standards, Mack Trucks Inc. executives said last week.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Volvo Trucks North America on Feb. 3 rolled out what it said was its first-ever Class 8 truck aimed at owner-operators.