USA Truck Returns to Profit
USA Truck Thursday reported a $900,000 profit in the second quarter, compared with a $1.2 million loss a year ago.
July 22, 2010TT Podcasts: RoadSigns
Volvo's Chayene de Souza and Magnus Gustafson discuss how new, connected trucks can boost business, enhance safety practices, and reinforce preventative maintenance plans.
Opinion: Boost Safety to Control Risks, Cut Losses
The recession appears to be waning, but trucking still is feeling the downturn’s effects and is keeping a watchful eye on expenses, including insurance.
July 13, 2010How Good a Recovery?
While Wall Street continues to express its doubts about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery that is under way, most trucking companies say that business is continuing to improve.
July 12, 2010An HOS Rule That Works
The proposal for revamping the federal government’s hours-of-service rule for truck drivers that a coalition of interest groups released recently illustrates just how little these political theorists understand about highway safety and the business of moving America’s freight.
July 5, 2010DOT Awards Five States $6.25 Million to Help Ease Shortage of Safe Truck Parking
The U.S. Department of Transportation in June awarded grants totaling $6.25 million to five states to “ease truck parking shortages on U.S. interstates.”
July 5, 2010Moving Ahead on CSA
This week’s issue of Transport Topics includes some interesting news about the federal government’s new safety regime for trucking, Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, including that the program is going to be renamed.
June 28, 2010ATA’s Top Lobbyist Lynch to Join Law Firm
Tim Lynch, American Trucking Associations’ top lobbyist, said last week he would leave the federation in July to join a Washington, D.C., law firm’s government affairs department.
June 28, 2010Midyear Stock Review: Investors Concerned About Durability of Recovery
After improving along with most other equities during the last nine months of 2009, trucking stocks this year have done little more than tread water, with a good run from early February through late April sandwiched between two brief pull-backs by investors.
June 28, 2010Detroit Diesel to Renovate Michigan Facility
Detroit Diesel Corp. said it will spend $194 million to renovate its 72-year-old Redford, Mich., plant, the latest example of truck makers pouring investments into diesel engine facilities to manufacture the complicated new power plants and vertically integrate production.
June 28, 2010CSA 2010 Needs Improvements, Trucking Exec Tells Congress
The federal government’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 is supported by the trucking industry but needs some changes, a trucking executive testifying for American Trucking Associations told a congressional panel Wednesday.
June 23, 2010