27 Oct NACFE Run On Less Regional Demonstration Achieves 8.3 MPG Average ATLANTA — Over the course of 18 days, trucks participating in a demonstration by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency showed significant improvements in fuel efficiency through investments in technology and skilled drivers. Read more...
25 Oct Five Indicted in New Orleans Over Allegations of ‘Staged’ Accident With Truck A federal grand jury in New Orleans has indicted five individuals on six counts of an alleged wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a 2017 auto accident with a tractor-trailer that prosecutors say was staged. Read more...
25 Oct General Motors Workers Ratify Contract, 40-Day Strike to End ROMULUS, Mich. — Striking General Motors factory workers will put down their picket signs after approving a new contract that will end a 40-day strike that paralyzed the company’s U.S. production. Read more...
25 Oct XPO Partners With Susan G. Komen XPO Logistics Inc. said it will partner with Susan G. Komen, a nonprofit breast cancer organization, in a campaign to raise awareness about the disease. Read more...
25 Oct US Cites More Progress in China Trade Talks After Call The U.S. and China are close to finalizing sections of the first phase of a trade deal that President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping hope to sign at a summit in Chile next month, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said. Read more...
25 Oct Senate to Resume Consideration of Transportation Funding Bill Legislation that would provide funding in fiscal 2020 for federal transportation agencies is among the measures set for consideration in the U.S. Senate on Oct. 28. Read more...
25 Oct Avoid Aftertreatment Woes With Routine Preventive Maintenance Heading off engine exhaust aftertreatment headaches can be as simple as doing preventive maintenance by the book, representatives of fleets and truck and engine makers said. Diesel particulate filtersand selective catalytic reduction systems have helped Class 8 trucks cut emissions of particulate matter, or soot, and nitrogen oxide compounds. Read more...
25 Oct Universal Logistics Reports Net Loss of $8.4 Million Universal Logistics Holdings Inc. reported a third-quarter net loss of $8.4 million, compared with $15.1 million net income in the third quarter of 2018. Read more...
25 Oct Maximizing Truck Maintenance Manufacturing first embraced Lean and Six Sigma techniques — tools and strategies to improve business processes — in the 1980s, and the concepts are gaining ground in truck maintenance shops. Those in the trucking industry who have applied Lean or Six Sigma processes said they can cut waste and increase their shops’ efficiency. Read more...
25 Oct Electric Trucks to Change How Equipment Is Spec’d The brave new world of electric Class 8 trucks dawned in North America with the delivery of two battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia tractors to customers this past August. Penske Truck Leasing and NFI are placing the vehicles into revenue service. With electric-powered trucks, however, comes a fundamental shift in how tomorrow’s freight-hauling equipment will be specified. Read more...