With tensions related to Iran driving up the price of crude oil, the price of diesel has soared 19.5 cents in the past three weeks — the most in any three-week period since exactly a year ago during unrest in North Africa and the Middle East. The average retail price of a gallon of on-highway diesel jumped 9.1 cents to $4.051 a gallon during the week ended Monday, Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. The average price is now the highest since mid-May 2011 and only the second time since then that the price has topped $4 a gallon. The latest price is 33.5 cents higher than the same week last year. Continue Reading

TAMPA, FL. Despite holding out the promise of fuel savings on the order of $50 billion, the approaching implementation of the federal government’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions/fuel economy rules for heavy and medium-duty trucks continues to pose a series of complex, and potentially costly, challenges for both OEMs and fleets alike. Continue Reading

Great Dane announced at the Technology and Maintenance Council Spring Meeting in Tampa, Fla., that it is dramatically expanding its existing national account program. The new AdvantEdge customer support program will provide enrolled members nationwide parts and service support from more than 100 Great Dane certified service providers, as well as consolidated invoicing, upfront repair estimates and full warranty coverage for all qualified Great Dane trailers. Continue Reading

Laydon Composites has designed a short skirt for intermodal trailers and a wishbone-shaped underskirt with a single center main section for operators wanting something simpler than traditional twin skirts. Continue Reading

Attendees of the Technology and Maintenance Council 2012 Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition will be the first to see Great Dane’s all new Champion SE dry freight vans. Two highly-specified Champion SE vans and a Great Dane converter dolly will be on display in Booth #2011 at the Tampa Convention Center February 20-23. Continue Reading

Great Dane unveiled sweeping changes to its complete product line and century-old brand to accompany a new advertising campaign entitled “Evolution.” Continue Reading

Fleets can still receive rebates through Cascade Sierra Solutions (CSS) when they purchase and install pre-approved idle-reduction systems that are capable of taking advantage of shorepower (AC), but time is running out. Continue Reading

In this era of complaining about heavy-handed government, here’s one federal program that gets cheers all around. Continue Reading

A fleet investing in new equipment—truck or trailer—must attain the maximum life from that unit. Fleets of all sizes operate with their own specifications and reasons for those specs, yet another reliable spec’ing source is Lynn Reinbolt, the executive leading Road Systems Inc. (RSI), a reconditioner, rebuilder and remanufacturer of dry van trailers for a number of motor carriers including Con-way Freight and Con-way Truckload. Continue Reading

Charleston, SC: Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, along with the trucking industry and federal transportation officials, promoted safe trucking — and the texting ban bill. Continue Reading