Baby, You Can Drive My Truck: Paul McCartney Rocks Freightliner Dinner at MCE
PHILADELPHIA — Music icon Sir Paul McCartney surprised and delighted the nearly 1,000 people attending a customer appreciation dinner hosted by Freightliner Trucks here on Oct. 19.
October 20, 2015ALK Updates CoPilot Navigation to Better Manage Routes by Vehicle Size
PHILADELPHIA — ALK Technologies has updated its CoPilot Truck in-cab navigation product to make it easier for fleets to create and follow routes optimized for vehicle size and load.
October 19, 2015Omnitracs to Launch Navigation System
PHILADELPHIA — Trucking technology supplier Omnitracs is expanding its product line with the upcoming launch of a new navigation system.
October 19, 2015ATA's Osiecki Expects Favorable Reforms If Congress Passes Highway Bill
PHILADELPHIA — Dave Osiecki, American Trucking Associations’ executive vice president and chief of national advocacy, says he is optimistic regulations the industry has criticized over the years would be reformed if Congress advances key bills this year.
October 19, 2015Shuster Predicts Highway Bill Will Reach Obama This Year
PHILADELPHIA — House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said Oct. 19 that he expects a six-year highway funding bill to reach the House floor next week and the White House before the beginning of 2016.
October 19, 2015October Truck Orders Will Fall, DTNA Says
PHILADELPHIA — The October report on Class 8 truck orders that is coming out in early November will not look good, said the CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, but that will be because numbers will be compared to a highly unusual corresponding month last year.
October 19, 2015Stanley McChrystal: Teamwork, Better Communications Boost Business
PHILADELPHIA — Board rooms, assembly lines and deliveries on the roadways can be improved by enhancing the way managers and employees communicate, retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal told industry executives here Oct. 19.
October 19, 2015Share the Road, America's Road Team Programs Saluted
PHILADELPHIA — Incoming Chairman Pat Thomas proudly introduced American Trucking Associations’ top ambassadors at the annual Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 19 here.
October 19, 2015EPA’s Grundler Praises SmartWay Partnership With ATA
PHILADELPHIA — While industry and government often don’t see eye to eye on regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency and American Trucking Associations agree that SmartWay is a program that works.
October 19, 2015Experts Maintain U.S. Economy Still World’s Strongest, and Trucking Benefits
PHILADELPHIA — The flawed and imperfect U.S. economy is, and will remain well into 2016, the world’s strongest producer — and trucking will benefit from that, two economists offering forecasts said here.
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