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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* Indiana - Trucking loses $140 million per day because of Sandy, but will benefit long-term
Nashville,IND,USA -Truck News (CAN) -Nov 1, 2012: -- The US trucking industry incurred short-term losses of US$140 million per day as a result of Super Storm Sandy, industry analyst FTR has estimated... However, those losses will be easily recouped thanks to an increase in freight demand, Noel Perry, senior consultant with FTR reports. His per day estimate of loss revenue is based on 20% of the industry not moving freight because of the storm and its aftermath...
* Tennessee - FedEx Freight continues Canadian/Mexico expansion efforts
* California - CARB announces another recall of Cleaire DPF
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line, by Charlie Morasch -30 Oct 2012: -- The last time the California Air Resources Board announced a recall of Cleaire diesel particulate filters, officials were reacting after a spark allegedly kicked from a big rig and started a 3,600-acre forest fire that destroyed 100 structures and displaced hundreds of rural Washington residents... The September 2011 fire was fought first by a group of nuns, whom a local newspaper photographed while they worked a bucket line before they were eventually replaced by more than 800 firefighters... This time, the recall appears to be pre-emptive... Late last week, CARB announced that Cleaire Advanced Emission Controls, which makes the LongMile diesel particulate filter, had voluntarily recalled the LongMile DPF... Any truck owner with an affected LongMile system should be contacted by Cleaire directly. The recall doesn’t affect any fleet’s ability to “retain early compliance credits” awarded by CARB that they may have accrued after installing the original LongMile system, CARB said...
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