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Byline: Jack Roberts If the drivetrain is the heart of a big rig, then the driver -- naturally -- is its soul. This has been true since the earliest days [...]

MARK NORMAN, transport manager at Wimbledon-based ELB Partners, had been at the London haulier for only six weeks when he took a call from head office that changed everything. 'I [...]

Byline: Paul Menig I'm involved in technology at all levels within the trucking industry and elsewhere. Some things that I helped pioneer in the mid 80's, like automated transmissions, have [...]

Stephen Russell isn't making any projections regarding his company's newest division. The CEO of Celadon Group Inc., though, has reason for optimism. TruckersB2B Inc. is Indianapolis-based Celadon's effort to get [...]

Byline: NATHAN SKID Today marks the first day that hungry Detroiters will be able to order lunch from a legal food truck in downtown Detroit. El Guapo Fresh Mexican Grill, [...]

Byline: DEBORAH MCGUFFIE-SCHYHOL When transporting extra-large, extra-heavy cargo, everything on a truck is stressed right down to the tires. Johnny McTyre (pronounced Mc-Teer), vice president-McTyre Trucking, knows this perhaps better [...]

John J. Flynn on Oct. 16 launched Fleet Advantage, an IT-based private truck fleet leasing consultancy. The founder and former president of dedicated contract carrier First Fleet opened the affiliate [...]

To alleviate concerns about the OEM's selective catalytic reduction (SCR) EPA 2010 engine solution, Mack Trucks powertrain marketing manager David McKenna will answer customers' questions through a new feature on [...]

BYLINE: Colin Barrett Q:We are the consignee and my carrier (used for years) went to pick up a load being shipped on an F.O.B. origin, freight collect basis (we pay [...]

BYLINE: Michael Fabey UPS played a game of follow-the-price-leader with fellow express carrier FedEx, significantly boosting its rates for the coming year. Tracking its competitor''s hikes - FedEx''s largest of [...]

PrePass growth topped 400,000 trucks last month with the enrollment of a truck by Bennett International Group in McDonough, GA. The PrePass system grid of participating weigh stations has also [...]

Byline: Larry Kahaner, Washington editor WASHINGTON, DC. Saying that 'these are definitely not your grandfather's diesel engines,' Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today watched as officials of six [...]

The Port of New Orleans has announced that port truckers are in very high demand to make local and regional deliveries as efforts continue to restore operations there to pre-Hurricane [...]

Celadon Group's TruckersB2B, Inc., signed an agreement with AMBEST, Inc. to provide rebates to TruckersB2B members on purchases of diesel fuel. This agreement will allow the more than 8,400 TruckersB2B [...]

With 2,500 replacement parts and a contract maintenance business to manage, this fleet looked for and found support from its local dealer. Motor carriers often assume that a vehicle's internal [...]

The idea was to design an Internet site to fill the needs of equipment managers of small- to medium-sized fleets. FleetXchange.com is the result of what fleet managers said they [...]

Seventy years of transportation history came to an end July 26, 1999. On that date, Maryland-based motor carrier Preston Trucking Company announced an immediate halt to its operations. The announcement [...]

Most grown-ups seldom get the chance to revisit the feeling of glee they had as a child when presented with a bucket of building blocks and unlimited possibilities, and certainly [...]

Though Gene McFadden's relentless push for innovation hasn't always sat well with those ensconced in the status quo, the CEO of locally based Freight Masters Systems Inc. is starting to [...]

He'll take the controls, whatever the rig Bill Ward remembers a light dusting of snow on the airfield the day he made his first solo flight in Hays, Kan. When [...]

The mentality of bigger is bigger is evident in the truck market as each new model boasts higher payload and towing capacity. One-ton dually models now have a payload of [...]

Diversified Portfolio of Services Werner Enterprises offers a variety of freight management solutions for customers of all sizes and industry types. In more than 55 years, the company has evolved [...]

A Burlington County company, run by a family that has been lugging around huge things for four generations, is one of several local businesses that has the muscle to move [...]

Ready! Set! Go! Courier services race to deliver the goods, stand out in the pack When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, you call Federal Express Corp. or [...]

ONE OF THE BIGGEST opponents of the Greater Manchester congestion charge will still oppose the schemer even though it is poised to win a last-minute concession to the scheme. The [...]

It was snowing the day before Christmas and I was behind the wheel of a five-axle Mack tractor-trailer headed south from Allentown, Pa., on Route 309. We were taking a [...]