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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Frozen Food Express Lowers Top Speed of Its Trucks
Dallas,TX,USA -PRIME NEWSWIRE -May 29, 2008: -- Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc., a nationwide transportation company offering service in the temperature-controlled truckload and LTL, dry truckload, and brokerage / logistics markets, announced today that it has reduced the maximum speed of its company-operated truck fleet from 65 to 62 miles per hour in an effort to mitigate the impact of rising fuel costs. FFEX expects that most of the independent contractors who provide it with trucks will take similar steps to reduce their expenses...
* Trimac Turns To Bendix For Trucking Safety Technology
Elyria,OH,USA -Truck Net, by Craig Zwiener -May 29, 2008: -- North America’s largest bulk commodities fleet has enhanced its award-winning safety program with braking technology from Bendix Commercial Vehicles Systems LLC... Trimac Transportation has added the commercial vehicle industry’s most comprehensive stability control technology – the Bendix® ESP® Electronic Stability Program – to its fleet of tractors... Trimac added the Bendix ESP full stability technology through the purchase of Kenworth® trucks, which include Bendix ESP functionality as a standard option with a delete credit on many of its highway tractor configurations...* Amendment in defense bill includes surcharge provision - Independent truckers praise vote
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Craig Zwiener -May 23, 2008: -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is grateful an amendment that will protect truckers and tax payers from being exploited by intermediaries in the trucking industry has been included in the Defense Authorization Bill... The amendment stipulates that for any Department of Defense contract for truck transportation or service using fuel, the motor carrier or broker must pass any fuel surcharge on to the person responsible for paying the cost of the fuel and to disclose that surcharge...
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