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Editorial: Supplying the Trucking Industry

This is shaping up as one of those “interesting years” for the trucking supply industry, with demand likely to at least match capacity in several key areas, including tractors, trailers and tires.

February 13, 2012
Editorial, Business

Editorial: A Misguided HOS Revision

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s new hours-of-service rule is a serious and major disappointment for the trucking industry.

January 9, 2012
Editorial, Business

Editorial: Patrick Quinn, Industry Leader

Patrick Quinn was a lot of different things to different people. To trucking, he was a leader.

December 19, 2011
Editorial, Business

Honoring Our Drivers

This year in Orlando, Fla., the National Truck Driving Championships produced another crop of deserving winners, fitting role models for the men and women who move America’s economy in their rigs every day of every year.

August 29, 2011
Editorial, Business

Fuel Economy Standards

The Obama administration last week issued fuel-economy and carbon-dioxide standards for heavy-duty trucks, marking the federal government’s first foray into regulating our industry’s energy efficiency, and we must say, it was an enlightened step.

August 15, 2011