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The Department of Transportation has released a new software application that it said will help the transportation industry to deliver products more efficiently.

Penske Truck Leasing said that it will join truck manufacturer Freightliner in a two-month North American tour of seminars about selective catalytic reduction technology.

Ken Eggen at Tango Transport in Shreveport, La., knows that one size doesn’t fit all. That is why he has separate preventative maintenance checklists for each of the three engine models his fleet runs. He goes a step further and sits down with his shop managers quarterly to pick through those checklists and make adjustments.

Technology vendors said sales of enterprise-level software have remained strong in 2009, propelled by carriers’ desire to cut costs now while preparing for the influx of new business that will accompany an economic recovery.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Tuesday morning following a weekend of hastily crucial repairs that were completed a day ahead of schedule, the Associated Press reported.

Are third-party logistics providers a necessary division in the trucking industry? My opinion is “yes.” We are a group of people who work hard to keep customers and drivers happy, at an agreeable rate.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed “fixing” the underperforming revenue aspects of its Unified Carrier Registration agreement by shifting more of the financial burden to the nation’s law-abiding trucking fleets.

Net orders for new commercial trailers in July increased 16% from a year ago and were up 4% from the previous month, according to ACT Research Co.