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Logistics firm Pacer International has appointed Val Noel to oversee its intermodal operations temporarily after one of the company’s executives leaves in July.

President Obama’s recent announcement that he was kicking off a major effort to improve the fuel efficiency of commercial vehicles was welcome news to the trucking industry.

Reading the May 24 “Opinion” column on how hard it would be for the smaller freight brokers to exist with a higher bond, my heart goes out to them, but my sympathies run with the trucking companies that use these brokers, small or large.

What a difference a year makes: Just one year ago, trucking trade publications were reporting on truckload rates plummeting 27% over the previous year, trucking companies beating down shippers’ doors looking for business, carriers dealing with 50% to 100% excess capacity over the previous two years, and thousands of trucking companies going bankrupt.

Transport Topics is offering a free downloadable report on CSA 2010, the government’s new safety regime for the trucking industry.

American Trucking Associations and other business groups are urging the Senate to move forward with a bill that would create a research program to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy- and medium-duty trucks.

Despite lean budgets and staff cuts because of the recession, more than 9,000 state, federal and provincial law enforcement officers are expected to be deployed at 1,500 locations across North America to inspect commercial trucks and buses during the annual Roadcheck event from June 8-10.

April trailer orders rose 3% from 2009 levels, and the backlog at trailer factories working to fill those orders rose to its highest level in 20 months as demand for equipment continued to exceed build rates, ACT Research Co. reported.

Thomas Nyhan, executive director of the Central States Pension Fund, told a Senate committee that the fund, which provides retirement benefits for a number of unionized trucking companies, will become insolvent without changes to federal law.