Ford Updates Commercial Transit Connect Van for 2016
Ford is updating its commercial Transit Connect van for the 2016 model year with standard flex-fuel capability for some models.
June 8, 2015Best Trucking Accounting Software 2024
If you’re simply looking for a bookkeeping tool, you can stop reading here, and look no further than QuickBooks. If you’re embracing the notion that trucking accounting goes far beyond that, or want to have a more expansive trucking accounting system of which QuickBooks is a key part, then read on.
Letters: Change the Basis for Ranking Logistics 50
I take exception to your methodology in ranking logistics companies. I grant that it is tough to compare apples to oranges to bananas, which is what is required to compare dedicated fleet providers to warehouse and distribution center providers to managed transportation providers, brokers and air and ocean freight forwarders.
June 8, 2015Opinion: Training - Keep It Personal, Ongoing
There’s an effort underway to quantify not only the duration of new-entrant driving training but also the measurement metric that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will use to craft a rulemaking.
June 8, 2015Editorial: Yes to the ESC Rule
Few things within trucking are scarier than a fully loaded, heavy-duty rig swerving uncontrollably or rolling over.
June 8, 2015TT Archives: Truck Size and Weight
In 1941, the Interstate Commerce Commission took the first step towards regulating truck sizes and weights at the federal level for goods moving in interstate commerce.
June 8, 2015US Orders Stability Control on New Tractors in 2017
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its long-awaited final rule on electronic stability control, saying it will affect most new Classes 7-8 highway tractors in two years.
June 8, 2015Peterbilt’s Self-Driving Truck Another Glimpse Into Future
FORT WORTH, Texas — Peterbilt Motors Co. is the latest truck maker to demonstrate that the future of trucking is already with us, albeit in prototype, showing off Class 8s where the driver is often a spectator, cameras replace mirrors and infrared capability lights up a deer or a person on a dark night. (See photo gallery.)
June 8, 2015Panel Endorses Hours-Based Approach for Entry-Level Driver Training Rule
WASHINGTON — This time around, federal regulators say they are convinced an advisory committee has come up with the ingredients for a successful entry-level driver training rule.
June 8, 2015Inspectors Focus on Load Securement During Annual Roadcheck Safety Blitz
Commercial vehicle safety inspectors in the United States, Canada and Mexico pulled over trucks and buses in large numbers last week for safety inspections as part of North America’s annual Roadcheck event.
June 8, 2015Judge Temporarily Blocks Bids From Trustee to Seek Payments in TransVantage Bankruptcy
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an effort to collect hundreds of millions of dollars from more than 500 carriers and shippers ensnared in the bankruptcy of TransVantage, a New Jersey freight bill payment company.
June 8, 2015