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Associates First Capital Corp., one of the nation’s largest suppliers of credit for trucking equipment purchases, will become a subsidiary of financial titan Citigroup, the two companies announced Sept. 6. he deal is a stock swap valued at $31.1 billion.

To hear vendors speaking at press conferences and trade shows, you would think that new information technologies grow on trees. But their would-be customers in trucking know that to every piece of software, scanning product and communications device on the market there is a dollar sign attached.

The future of the “black box” on trucks will be one of 14 topics discussed during educational sessions at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition Oct 29-Nov. 1 in San Diego.

A Maine trucking company’s long-running lawsuit against “Dateline NBC” over a less-than-flattering portrayal of the company and the trucking industry came to an end last week with an out-of-court settlement.

American manufacturers are recalling 300,000 trucks, buses and emergency service vehicles because of a defect that could cause the brakes to fail.

The executive agency of the European Union has cleared the way for Volvo to become the world’s second largest truck manufacturer with the purchase of Renault SA.

As the federal government considers establishing shipper and owner responsibililty for the roadworthiness of container chassis, some carriers that serve maritime ports in states with similar intermodal laws already on the books say nothing has changed there.

The American trucking industry consumes about 30 billion gallons of diesel fuel and 15 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

The Department of Transportation’s proposed rule on driver hours of service obviously is intended to reduce fatigue-related casualties and preserve the economic vitality of the trucking industry. We all would agree that no price tag can be put on safety.

At Prime Inc., we had a large project that would improve our automated billing function. We were using a system that handled only about 30% of the billing, committed too many errors and required manual re-keying.