12 Feb Jacobs to Supply Engine Brakes for Hino XL Series Jacobs Vehicle Systems announced the launch of a compression release engine brake for 2020 Hino XL Series heavy-duty trucks for the U.S. market. Read more...
12 Feb Small Businesses Not Optimistic Over Economic Outlook Sentiment among U.S. small businesses slumped in January to the lowest level since Donald Trump became president as the economic outlook weakened amid the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown. Read more...
12 Feb SteelRiver Infrastructure Looking to Sell Patriot Rail SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners is seeking a buyer for Patriot Rail Co., a transportation business that could fetch more than $600 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read more...
12 Feb New England Motor Freight Files for Bankruptcy, Plans to Wind Down Trucking Operations In a move sure to shake up the regional less-than-truckload freight market in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, New England Motor Freight filed for bankruptcy Feb. 11 and said it intends to wind down all of its trucking operations. Read more...
12 Feb Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks: Texas Tops 2019 ATRI List With 13 The passage to the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River has once again been named the country’s worst bottleneck for trucks. See a map of the 2019 Top 10 and the list of the Top 100. Read more...
11 Feb Diesel Price Freezes at $2.966 a Gallon The U.S. average retail price of diesel froze during the week of Feb. 11, remaining at $2.966 a gallon. Read more...
11 Feb FMCSA Sued by California Over Uniform Meal-and-Rest-Break Declaration California officials are suing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over the agency’s determination that federal rest-break laws pre-empt California’s separate meal-and-rest-break requirements. Read more...
11 Feb Maryland Bill Would Allow Counties to Veto State Toll Plans A Maryland legislator introduced a bill that would require the state to get majority approval from counties before installing tolls on highways and bridges that run through those counties. Read more...
11 Feb Former Secretary Ray LaHood’s Road Map for an Infrastructure Plan A former DOT chief lays out a four-step plan to put America "back in the transportation business again." Here's Capitol Agenda's look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
11 Feb Pennsylvania Trucker Quietly Goes About Amassing More Than 2 Million Safe Miles Some people talk a good game, but that doesn’t describe Tim Palkovic. Ask the 60-year-old driver for Curtze Food Service what makes him a good truck driver, and he laughs a little as his silver Freightliner rolls down Interstate 90, headed west and home after a night pulling a pair of 28-foot trailers from Erie to Buffalo, N.Y., to Kenmore, N.Y., and back to Erie. Read more...