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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* OPINION - Is there any relief in sight? What is the industry doing to deal with 6 bucks a gallon diesel fuel?
Mechanicsville,VA,USA -Mass Logic Trucking News, by MReed -20 June 2008: -- ... Ben Evans is the president of Mass Logics, a company that provides software to the trucking industry. Specifically, they make logistics software. In a recent interview, he offered a bleak but hopeful outlook on the current state of the industry... He said, “The transportation industry will always have a bright future, even at $6 or $7 per gallon for diesel fuel. This is one of the few industries that cannot be exported overseas or replaced by technology. As long as products are manufactured and sold in this country, they must be moved from place to place. However there will be a period where work is low, and pricing is unstable, which will cause the industry to shrink some. Once the fuel price stabilizes and consumer confidence returns, the industry will bounce back and grow again.” * Barr-Nunn to add APU units to its new International ProStars
Granger,IA,USA -Truck Net, by Craig Zwiener - June 20, 2008: -- Barr-Nunn Transportation is a proactive leader in the industry when it comes to maintaining and adding new equipment. Barr-Nunn has recently announced that it will proceed with a plan to equip select 2009 International ProStars with Carrier Comfort-Pro APU units... With fuel costs soaring, the units keep the truck running and the drivers comfortable, while eliminating idle time and fuel waste. The APU units provide air conditioning, heating, power household accessories, charge batteries and at the same time, cut down on operating costs...
* Truckers slow down to speed up savings - Record diesel prices are starting to mean slower big rigs
Columbus,OH,USA -Business First of Columbus, by Adrian Burns -20 June 2008: -- Facing fuel prices far above $4 a gallon, freight companies are lowering the top speeds of their heavy trucks. Coupled with other fuel-saving measures, it is an effort that's yielding hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of dollars in savings annually for some companies and helping them hold onto customers balking at absorbing pass-along costs... The changes are needed because trucking companies are dealing with diesel prices that have risen nearly 40 percent this year... Arctic Express CEO Richard Durst, has been working with mechanics such as Chris Reed at the Hilliard trucking company to reprogram trucks’ onboard computers to limit their maximum speed in a bid for better mileage... While trucking companies continue to look for strategies or gadgets to cut fuel costs, pressure is also increasing on truck manufacturers to churn out vehicles with better fuel efficiency, said Adrian Simms, director of interior systems engineering for Commercial Vehicle Group Inc....
* Aliquippa trucking company shuts down
Aliquippa,Beaver County,PEN,USA -The Beaver County Times, by Michael Pound -June 19, 2008: -- A regional trucking company that had maintained a terminal in Aliquippa since 2000 has apparently gone out of business, just months after it emerged from bankruptcy... Path Truck Lines, a company with a 30-year history in western New York, went out of business earlier this month, shutting down its headquarters in Dunkirk and its terminals, including the Aliquippa location, which hauled building products made at the U.S. Gypsum plant in Aliquippa...
* Schneider National adds three new orientation sites for experienced drivers
Green Bay,WIS,USA -Truck News, by Adam Ledlow -20 June 2008: -- Schneider National has added three new sites to its award-winning orientation program for experienced drivers. The latest Schneider National Operating Centers, in Indianapolis, West Memphis, Ark., and Atlanta, were added this month, bumping the total number of sites from nine to 12. Included that group is one Canadian orientation site in Guelph, Ont...
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