Logistics Critical for Aggregate Haulers
Aggregate Haulers for big LA construction projects find logistics critical The 519 miles of L.A.’s freeway system. Dodger Stadium. City Hall. All built with concrete filled with rock and sand washed d…
Fracking Expected to Bring Oil-Field Record
Fracking & Oil-Field Poised to Break Records This spring America’s oil companies are expected to produce a record 10 million barrels of American crude a day, largely due to another record that is…
Driver-less Truck Goes 2,400 miles
A San Francisco, Calif., start-up called Embark completed a coast-to-coast test drive of its autonomous semi-truck, the company said last month. Embark hauled Electrolux refrigerators from Los Angeles…
Gasoline Tax Under Debate …again
When the federal government last raised the gas tax, Hillary Clinton was the first lady of the United States. Mark Zuckerberg was a nerdy nine-year-old in suburban New York. America’s interstate highw…
DEF requires proper handling
Editor’s note: What follows is a quick tutorial on what diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) is and how truck operators should use it. What is DEF (diesel exhaust fluid)? DEF is the reactant necessary for the f…
Fly Ash Gaining Users
Fly ash is a fine powder created by the burning of pulverized coal in electric generation power plants. Fly ash is a pozzolan, a substance containing aluminous and siliceous material that forms cement…
New NATSO Study Highlights Interstate Truck Parking Capacity Issues
The National Tank Truck Carriers issued the following statement in response to the National Association of Truck Stop Operators’ new report, “Rest Area Commercialization and Truck Parking Capacity 201…
Driver Shortage Hindering Oil Production
Permian’s production growth – the main driver of the second shale revolution as oil prices crept higher over the past 12 months — may be limited not by geological or technological constraints, but by…
Sand Mining Booming as Fracking Grows
R on Jordan picked up a handful of damp sand as it cascaded off a broad conveyor belt, eventually bound for trucks or rail cars that will take it to eager buyers in South Texas and around the country.…
Truck Orders Soared in January
T ransportation analysts are reporting that Class 8 truck orders soared in January to their highest level since 2006, according to early reports from transportation analysts at ACT Research and FTR.…
Raymond Martinez to Lead FMCSA
The U.S. Senate last month confirmed Raymond Martinez appointment as Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). His nomination had been reported favorably on Nov. 11 by…
Inventor Creates Lighter, Stronger and Less Expensive Concrete
Inventor Jinhong Zhang, associate professor of mining and geological engineering in the University of Arizona’s (UA) College of Engineering, has developed a new substitute concrete that has a number o…
