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Love's Travel Stops opened its 25th truck tire care service location under its partnership with Michelin Americas Truck Tires.View the full article

The Independent Warehouse Distributors has hired Jeff Sandt as director of product management.View the full article

UPS Freight is reducing transit times and expanding direct routing to and from northeast Kansas.View the full article

The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 2.2 percent in April, after plunging 4.5 percent in March.View the full article

The "Freedom from Tolls Act," introduced by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), would limit the spread of tolling on federal highways.View the full article

Diesel prices rose for the third week in a row, up 4.3 cents to a national average of $2.274, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.View the full article

New commercial truck registrations (Class 3-8) were down 40 percent for the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, according to the Polk Commercial Vehicle Market Intelligence Report.View the full article

A Missoula, Mont., bankruptcy judge approved a reorganization plan for Jim Palmer Trucking May 8, allowing the company to escape Chapter 11.View the full article

Manac acquired certain assets of defunct Trailmobile Canada as part of the company's asset liquidation process during the first week of May. View the full article

John Wensel, owner of Wensel's Truck and Car Repair, was named 2008 Truck Service Expert of the Year at Truck Pride's 25th Annual Membership Meeting in Tucson, Ariz.View the full article

I haven't been on to much lately ...and why is that? Well I have a new girlfiend and she keeps me hopping. Well maybe not hopping but that's close enough. She is sort of camera shy..she actually threatens my life when I try to take a pcture of her but..yeah there is always a but..her son got married this weekend and to be polite she stood still long enough to have a few pics taken.

My Hat is off to her son though he is currently in the National Guard and has a very lovely new wife who.. I can assure you keep him in line. Not that she has to he is a very responsible young man.

Matt

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Last week the House Committee on Energy and Commerce adopted an amendment to the "Global Warming Bill" (H.R. 2454) that would move authority to regulate fuel economy for heavy-duty trucks away from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration View the full article

The NATSO Foundation has tapped Noel Perry, transportation economist from Transport Fundamentals, to provide valuable insight into the anticipated need for Diesel Exhaust Fluid at an educational session June 5 in Nashville, Tenn.View the full article

Insurance premium rates either decreased slightly or flattened out during the first quarter of 2009 for the trucking, intermodal, bulk transportation services and owner-operator segments, according to the Transportation Insurance Pricing Survey conducted by NIP Group.View the full article

Richard Rossnagel was named a Highway Angel by the Truckload Carriers Association for his help pulling a mother and a daughter out of an overturned SUV.View the full article

Mack Trucks will host its Driving Skills Safety Challenge at the WasteExpo 2009 show in Las Vegas June 9 and 10, where participants will be awarded $15,000 in prizes. View the full article

James Ransom of Boyd Bros. Transportation has been named Safety Professional of the Year by the Safety and Security Division of the Truckload Carriers Association. View the full article

No news will be posted today in recognition of the Memorial Day holiday. News will resume Tuesday, May 26.View the full article

Not too bad a week this week, better'n last week anyhow! I left Sunday going to Orchard Park, then went to Cleveland and picked up a load of coiled wire ( or "welfare wire" as Big Jim calls it ) going to Summerville, S.C. That's just outside of Charleston. Todd took the loads because he had loads going to N.B.Handy in Lynchburg at Nucor Steel in Huger, which is just outside of Charleston.

After I unloaded at Handy I could have reloaded a Charlotte load, but I declined because it's race weekend in Charlotte, plus the Memorial Day weekend traffic on top of that...so I came home and cut the grass.

Went to Petersburg yesterday and got a load of beams going to Syracuse. I'm already dreading the traffic going up 81 Monday. Got home and "weed eated" for a while then planted a few more tomato plants that I pulled from the plant bed. Got a little room left for a few pepper plants, but they're not quite big enough to plant yet. Then the garden will be packed full. Saw a rabbit out there yesterday looking at it through the fence, but Otherdog (the fearsome beagle) ran him off.

pics. of the week-Lake Erie from the truckstop at North East, Pa.

Diamond Reo wrecker at the truckstop in Mt. Airy, N.C.

"welfare wire"...(Big Jim)

ready to unload at Handy in Lynchburg

N.B.Handy truck

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The Obama administration is close to finishing a plan to revive long-distance trucking across the U.S.-Mexican border.View the full article

New legislation introduced in the Senate will help close loopholes that allow drug and alcohol users to slip by trucking companies' driver hiring checks.View the full article

A coalition of shipper and transportation groups has issued a "Surface Transportation Reauthorization Platform" calling for increased federal involvement in freight issues,View the full article

The Virginia Department of Transportation has altered its plan to close 25 of the state's 42 rest stops and now expects to close 19 to address concerns about truck parking and minimize travel distance between facilities.View the full article

On Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's desk is a bill that would provide uniform access on most Illinois roads to 80,000-pound trucks.View the full article

Continental Tire North America has launched a new online training program, "Engage360 Untamed Innovation," to give tire dealers detailed information about the company's commercial vehicle tires.View the full article