13 Aug Capitol Agenda for the Week of Aug. 13: Grand Champions After weeks of qualifying at the state level, a Grand Champion will be crowned Aug. 18 at the National Truck Driving Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Here's a look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
10 Aug French Firm Trigo Group Adds Two US Companies to Expand Quality Management Services Trigo Group, a company based in France that provides inspection, quality training and consulting services to manufacturing firms throughout the world, has made two recent acquisitions in the United States. Read more...
10 Aug Chassis Company FlexiVan to Purchase Intermodal Tire Business From New Pride FlexiVan is purchasing substantially all of the assets of New Pride Corp.’s intermodal tire division, the Kenilworth, N.J., intermodal chassis leasing company said Aug. 6. Read more...
10 Aug FleetPride Acquires Long Island Truck Parts FleetPride Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Long Island Truck Parts, founded in 1972 and based in Medford, N.Y. Read more...
10 Aug Teamsters Union Approves Two Five-Year Pacts With UPS Local union leaders with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters which represents UPS Inc. and UPS freight workers approved on Aug. 9 two separate five-year national contracts. This paves the way for the 250,000 workers, including drivers, loaders, package sorters, dockworkers and operations team members and 11,000 freight workers to vote on the contacts in September. Read more...
10 Aug Utility Selects New Curtain for Trailers Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. announced the Kin-Sider from Kinedyne will be the new standard curtain installed on Utility’s Tautliner curtain-sided trailers. Read more...
10 Aug Trailer Makers Seek Timeline for Review of Phase 2 GHG Rule A trailer makers group is asking a federal appeals court to require that two federal agencies state when they plan to make a final decision on a 2016 Obama-era heavy-truck greenhouse gas rule. Whether revised or kept in place, the rule would regulate trailers for the first time. Read more...
10 Aug Loop’s Fuel Cell Range Extender to Be Evaluated in SoCal Loop Energy announced its heavy-duty fuel cell range extender will power two zero-emissions, hybrid-electric Class 8 drayage trucks as part of a fuel cell truck project in Southern California. Read more...
10 Aug Former Chief Tesla Vehicle Engineer Doug Field Returns to Apple Apple Inc. said it rehired Doug Field after the executive spent about five years at Tesla Inc. in charge of vehicle engineering. Read more...
10 Aug Ready for a Challenge? Take Our NTDC Quiz With NTDC 2018 here, we challenge you to take a brief quiz and test your basic knowledge of driver rules! Read more...