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Prices for Used Class 8 Trucks Begin to Ease as Dealers See Higher Trade-in Volumes
Prices for used Class 8 trucks have eased in recent months as more equipment has reached the secondary market, but values remain near historic levels, analysts reported.
February 16, 2015NTSB Urges Greater Attention to Truck Maintenance Issues
WASHINGTON 鈥 Trucking companies with poor safety records should redouble their maintenance efforts and pay particular attention to brake systems, the acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said.
February 16, 2015Truck Sales Start 鈥15 Strong
U.S. retail sales of Class 8 trucks kicked off this year with the same vigor they used to plow through 2014, surging 22.8% in January to 17,373 units, according to WardsAuto.com.
February 16, 2015OEMs Continue to Nip at Cummins鈥 Engine Lead
Truck manufacturers continued to make gains selling their own engines during 2014, as the total number of engines placed into Class 8 trucks rose 21.3%, WardsAuto.com reported.
February 9, 2015Crash Death Rate Declines
Large trucks traveled nearly 6 billion more miles on U.S. roads in 2013 than in 2012, and did so with greater safety results, according to American Trucking Associations鈥 calculations of federal data.
February 9, 2015TT Archives: Driver Shortage
In this issue of Transport Topics, back in 1995, the trucking industry was facing the same problem we are today, driver shortage.
February 9, 2015Mark Gagnon Named Board Chairman of Connecticut Trucking Group
Mark Gagnon, president of Capitol Moving and Storage of South Windsor, Connecticut, was recently installed as the chairman of the board of the Motor Transport Association of Connecticut.
February 4, 2015Truck Fatal Crash Rate Declines 1.6%, Says ATA of Federal Data
Despite a 0.5% rise in the number of large truck-involved crash fatalities in 2013, the actual truck-involved crash fatality rate declined by 1.6% in 2013, according to American Trucking Associations'聽calculations of Federal Highway Administration data.
February 2, 20153Q Turnover Remains High Despite Gains in Driver Pay
Truckload fleets were unable to gain ground in the long-running battle to control driver turnover during the third quarter, despite raising pay at a record pace, American Trucking Associations reported last week.
February 2, 2015