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Those familiar with accident event recorders know this technology offers many valuable benefits for transportation operations. AERs, which record both video and audio when a driving incident occurs, can help to improve driver performance, reduce accidents and save lives. The technology also offers other significant, but less publicized, advantages such as decreased expenses and enhanced driver/management relationships.

Alliance Parts, Daimler Trucks’ private-label parts unit, said it has partnered with ArvinMeritor, Troy, Mich., to provide remanufactured brake shoes for commercial vehicles in North America.

Wholesale inventories fell in July for the eleventh consecutive month, the Commerce Department said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence rose in September as job losses slowed and the economy showed signs of improvement, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The price of goods imported to the United States climbed 2% in August, the fifth increase in six months, the Labor Department said Friday.

I believe there are a lot of carriers engaged in “sport trucking” as described in the story “Pace of Fleet Failures Slows as Banks Delay Foreclosures.” Trucking companies that “aren’t doing it for a profit” will hurt only themselves in the end and make it bad for the rest of the industry — both shippers and carriers.

At the very least, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to provide the freight transportation industry sufficient time to respond to its proposal to fix the clearly broken Unified Carrier Registration agreement.

Navistar International Corp. reported a $12 million loss in its fiscal third quarter, but top executive Daniel Ustian said he expects modest improvement in truck orders this quarter and next year, fueled by major fleets’ purchases.