CN Acquiring 50 Electric Trucks
The announcement of the CN purchase of 50 Class 8 trucks is the first time Lion Electric has presented a tractor configuration. The Lion Electric Co. has signed a memorandum of understanding with CN Rail…
U.S. Keeps China’s Factories Booming
Remember all the media coverage just a few months ago about Chinese manufacturers poised to collapse due to lack of overseas buyers? It didn’t happen. Chinese factories are booming. Chinese goods are flooding into U.S…
Moving Hazmat Waste Not So Simple
Hazardous wastes can present challenges when they are shipped. Because of this, getting hazardous wastes off of the dock isn’t as simple as slapping a standard shipping label on the container and waving goodbye to…
Feds Charge 11 With Staging Crashes
Feds Charge 11 with staging crashes following a widespread investigation into staged crashes targeting truckers and their insurance companies. In late August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana announced that 11 people had…
Matlack Leasing Hires Dave Girard, Regional Sales Representative
Matlack Leasing Hires Dave Girard as Regional Sales Representative. Dave, a 30-year veteran of the bulk transportation industry brings to Matlack Leasing his extensive knowledge of tank equipment and the tank transportation market. Mr. Girard…
Anheuser-Busch Turning To Alt-Fuel Trucks
Ever since Anheuser-Busch launched a new sustainability initiative two years ago, the brewing company has pursued a decidedly fuel-agnostic approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its transportation and logistics division. Among its commitments are…
Dixon Bayco Hires JC Dolinger as National Sales Manager
Dixon Bayco, a division of Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, announces the hiring of JC Dolinger as National Sales Manager. JC has over 30 years of industrial sales and sales management experience, with most of…
DOT Widening Off-Site Audits Of Truckers
U .S. DOT has increasingly targeted trucking companies with compliance reviews conducted via email and telephone in place of on-site reviews in which inspectors show up in person. What’s more, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety…
ATA Sues Over Chassis Use
The U.S. Federeal Maritime Commission (FMC) has assigned to its Office of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) a complaint from the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) alleging massive overcharges for container chassis use in recent years. FMC received the complaint from the association on Aug. 17.
MAC Trailer Continues Its Successful Path
MAC Trailer Continues Its Successful Path, launched its latest in an impressive lineup of pneumatic tank trailers at the start 2020. Despite an uncertain year, the OEM manufacture did not hesitate to continue its history…
Hendrickson Acquires Stemco Units
Hendrickson of Woodridge, Ill., has acquired the Motor Wheel brake drum and Crewson slack adjuster business segments from Stemco and its parent company EnPro Industries, company officials said. The segments are based in Chattanooga, Tenn…
Judge Rules FTS Intl Will Get New Trial
An appeals court has ordered a new trial in a 2018 “nuclear verdict” case that was believed to be the largest trucking verdict in the country’s history, saying the award was excessive. In 2013, a…
