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PeopleNet Communications will introduce a new model of its in-cab computer known as Blu.2 that is designed to enhance functionality of the company’s earlier model.

Ryder System said Monday it has expanded its leasing contract with Ceva Logistics by adding more than 1,000 trailers.

Statistics on just how much money is lost annually to fraudulent fuel sales are elusive — neither the U.S. Department of Energy nor its Energy Information Administration maintains such records — but the industry is aware that it’s going on.

Heavy-duty U.S. truck sales surged 68.3% in May compared with year-ago results, the fastest monthly growth rate in a 17-month string of gains.

This never-ending hours-of-service regulatory process reminds me of a quip from a John Wayne movie: “We’re burnin’ daylight.” Trucks continue to roll down our nation’s highways, with drivers more confused than ever on pending legislation.

If an appeals court agrees with a lower court judge who backed the Port of Los Angeles’ argument that it is a business, then all drayage truck drivers will be required to be employees of licensed motor carriers.

Truck stop electrification initiatives are proliferating again as four vendors try to convince more drivers to shut down engines and use the systems’ heating, cooling and Internet options to reduce emissions, costs and fuel use.

WASHINGTON — Replacing the current hours-of-service rule with one that cuts driving hours would put more inexperienced truck drivers on the road and pass increased transportation costs onto consumers, four executives who run trucks told a House subcommittee.

Cummins Inc., manufacturer of heavy-duty truck engines, said it is adding 600 white-collar workers at its Columbus, Ind., headquarters, joining the wave of truck-industry