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News Analysis: Fleets Learning More Ways to Cope With Emission Rules

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Diesel Engine Emissions Summit II showed just how quickly the trucking industry has learned how to live with the new federal laws governing heavy-duty diesel engine emissions. And with that knowledge, the attendees were shown, comes possible leverage.

March 29, 2004

Technology Briefs - March 23 - March 29

TMC Rolls Out New Web Site • Pegasus TransTech Expands Scanning Service • Kenworth to Offer Satellite Radio Option on New Trucks • EPA Says It May Adopt CARB Rule on Diagnostics

March 29, 2004

News Briefs - March 29

Price of Crude Oil Declines as OPEC May Postpone Cut • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices at Record High • FMCSA to Issue Chassis Rule This Year • Nevada to Spend $50 Million More for Colorado River Bridge • And more...

March 29, 2004

News Briefs - March 26

AutoInfo’s Reports Higher Profits for 2003 • WSJ: OPEC Nations Expected to Keep Overproducing • Rail Intermodal Loadings Rise 10%, AAR Says • B&T Express’ O’Malley Wins TCA Award • And more...

March 26, 2004

Engine Makers Say ’07 Engines Built on ’02 Models

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To reach the government‘s 2007 diesel emissions standards, engine manufacturers will refine changes they made to meet 2002 rules and will try to do it without a further loss of fuel efficiency, representatives told the Diesel Emissions Summit II here last week.

March 26, 2004

High-Tech, Software Vendors Push Tracking, Security Wares

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — High-tech equipment and software vendors who gathered here for the annual meeting of the Technology and Maintenance Council, a unit of American Trucking Associations, unveiled additional investments and new approaches to tracking and security.

March 26, 2004

House Committee Passes $275 Billion Highway Bill

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday approved a six-year, $275 billion highway and mass transit spending bill.

March 25, 2004

Commerce Confirms Economy Grew at 4.1% Clip in 4Q

The U.S. economy expanded at a 4.1% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, in its final report on economic growth during the last three months of 2003.

March 25, 2004

Jeffress Warns of Technician Shortage, Asks State Associations to Help Recruit

Mike Jeffress, the newly elected chairman of the Technology & Maintenance Council, said there is a nationwide shortage of qualified technicians and he wants TMC, a council of American Trucking Associations, to form alliances with state maintenance groups to do something about it.

March 25, 2004