Truck tonnage fell 10.8% in January from the same month last year, but rose 3% from the prior month, American Trucking Associations said Friday.
March 2, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernmentEquipment
TransCore Launches Web Site for Trucking Companies
Transportation technology firm TransCore said Monday that it has launched a customer support and information Web site catered to trucking companies using Class 8 trucks.
March 3, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
ATA Unveils New Trailer From GE
American Trucking Associations said last week it was unveiling a new trailer for use in its image and outreach programs.
March 2, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
ATA Leaders Call on Capitol
WASHINGTON 鈥 American Trucking Associations members gathered here last week to build support within Congress and the Obama administration on issues ranging from highway financing to potential union-organizing legislation.
March 2, 2009BusinessFuelSafetyGovernment
LaHood Rejects Fuel Tax Hike After Urging Funding Creativity
WASHINGTON 鈥 Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said federal officials should explore all options to finance infrastructure, but he later strongly rejected a fuel tax increase, at least while the economy is in recession.
March 2, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernmentEquipment
Class 8 Truck Fleet Grew in 4Q Following 1st Decline, Polk Says
The number of Class 8 trucks operating in the United States increased by 60,000 at the end of the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reversing the first-ever decline of 17,000 that research firm R.L. Polk & Co. reported at the end of the third quarter.
March 2, 2009BusinessSafetyFuelTechnologyEquipmentGovernment
Obama鈥檚 Call for Cap-and-Trade a Concern for ATA Chairman
President Obama called on Congress to approve legislation creating a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Obama spoke on Feb. 24 to Congress in a joint session and invited spectators, who included the chairman of American Trucking Associations.
March 2, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
Congressmen Back LaHood in Dispute Over VMT Comment
ARLINGTON, Va. 鈥 Congressional leaders from both parties last week defended Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood after a spokesman for President Obama rebuffed LaHood鈥檚 suggestion that the government might use a vehicle miles-traveled tax to finance highways.
March 2, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel
Engine Makers Defend SCR Against 鈥楿nsubstantiated Claims鈥
Truck engine makers planning to use selective catalytic reduction in 2010 engines lashed out last week against what one executive called 鈥渦nsubstantiated attacks leveled against SCR鈥 by the one manufacturer that plans to use only exhaust gas recirculation to cut emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides.
March 2, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
ATA Outraged By Fees; Proposes Ending UCR
In response to a proposal to more than double annual registration fees on interstate trucking companies, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said the program created to collect and distribute the fees should be abolished.
March 2, 2009