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DOT warns about fraudulent letters seeking bank information
Click here to see a copy of the letter. Carriers should be on the lookout for fraudulent letters appearing to be from “Equifax Credit Information Services — Government division,” said the Federal Motor...
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Congressional showdown ends with Senate passing House’s $10.8 billion highway...
The Senate on Thursday passed a 10-month funding bill that will prevent the Highway Trust Fund from going broke until the end of May. The bill was first passed by the House earlier this month, and is...
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Senate bill would give natural gas trucks a weight exemption
A CNG pump. Credit: Jim Urquhart/Reuters The Senate this week introduced its version of a bill to cut natural gas-powered trucks a break, as it would give them an exemption to federal truck weight...
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Lawsuit against California emissions regulations dismissed
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s 2013 lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board over its stringent emissions regulations has been dismissed by a federal judge based on...
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Obama urges Congress to focus on improving infrastructure rather than...
President Barack Obama in his sixth State of the Union address made little mention of issues related directly to construction and transportation, which has in years past come in the form of the...
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Fingers crossed: Senate highway bill could be unveiled soon
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) may soon unveil a highway funding bill that would direct money to the struggling Highway Trust Fund from taxes on companies’ overseas earnings,...
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Kenworth T880 named top work truck of the year by American Truck Dealers
The Kenworth T880 was named the American Truck Dealers’ Commercial Truck of the Year this weekend at the ATD Convention and Expo in San Francisco, besting the the Peterbilt 567 and the International...
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Navistar sued by federal government for withholding documents from investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed in December a lawsuit against Navistar International Corp. claiming the truck and engine maker improperly redacted and withheld documents the Commission...
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Navistar’s comprehensive OnCommand telematics service is now free on all...
Navistar’s OnCommand Connection remote diagnostics system will now be free and standard on all 2007 and newer model International trucks, the company announced this week at the Mid-America Trucking...
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Diesel prices down 16 cents in last 4 weeks
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell another 4 cents in the week ended April 6, according to the Department of Energy’s weekly report, extending its string of consecutive...
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Cummins unveils medium-duty B6.7, vocational L9 engines
B6.7 At an event prior to the start of the NTEA Work Truck Show Tuesday night in Indianapolis, CUmmins unveiled the 2017 iterations of its medium-duty workhorses: the 2017 B6.7 diesel engine and its...
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Cummins intros predictive cruise, OTA updates for 2017 engine lineup
The 2017 Cummins X15 Performance In addition to unveiling its 2017 engine lineup, Cummins has introduced a new package of engine connectivity options that give fleets the ability to update their...
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USDOT proposes requiring speed limiting devices on heavy haulers
The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a proposed rule that would require trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds to be equipped with speed limiting devices (also known as speed governors...
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Automation to transform trucking ‘faster than most think,’ forecasters say
Perry and Gross see the industry as on the verge of the automated revolution, which they say will be a major shock to the industry. Carriers need to prep to survive, they said. The trucking industry is...
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Supreme Court declines to hear ELD lawsuit
The Supreme Court said June 12 it will not hear OOIDA’s lawsuit against the DOT’s ELD mandate, effectively ending the court bid to overturn the mandate. In a victory for the U.S. Department of...
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With Supreme Court blow to ELD legal challenge, mandate has no roadblocks...
Hardwired systems like the GPS Insight ELD 2000 are less likely to break or get lost. The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a death blow to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s legal...
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Cummins unveils ZED Connect with launch of ELD smartphone app
ZED’s fleet management portal. Engine maker Cummins announced it has launched a new software company, ZED Connect, whose first offering is a smartphone-based electronic logging device that’s compliant...
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Congress may attempt to alter or delay ELD mandate
A panel of lawmakers in the U.S. House on Monday issued a report advising the U.S. DOT to study whether a “full or targeted delay” of the federal electronic logging device mandate for small carriers...
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House bill would delay ELD compliance two years
A bill has been filed in the U.S. House to delay the compliance date of the federal government’s electronic logging device two years, to December 2019. If enacted, carriers would have two additional...
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Bill to delay ELD mandate unlikely to garner enough support
More than 21 members of the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors to the bill that would delay the compliance date of the looming electronic logging device mandate. The bill, if enacted, would give...
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