Technology

As the most stringent emission rules yet took effect in 2010, manufacturers brought their latest emissions technology to U.S. buyers against a backdrop of recovering truck sales and continuing contention about which type of pollution control best serves the industry.

Ryder System said it will acquire The Scully Companies, a California-based provider of contract carriage and related services.

Google’s recent move to forsake Net Neutrality — the premise that all content on the Web should be distributed evenhandedly — threatens to have serious consequences for trucking companies’ websites, especially if other Internet titans follow suit.

Ensuring the safe delivery of every load should be a top priority in the trucking industry. Yet, even with the most sophisticated technologies and best risk-management techniques, bad things can happen to good people — or good carriers.

Managers of large fleets want to buy improved equipment and advanced technologies despite the recent recession but are insisting upon payback periods of four years or less, according to a recent survey.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it has ordered JBS Carriers of Greeley, Colo., to install electronic onboard recorders on its roughly 700-truck fleet.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered a Colorado carrier to install electronic onboard recorders on its fleet by March, after deeming the trucking company in violation of federal hours of service rules.

PeopleNet has partnered with Trinium Technologies to integrate PeopleNet’s communications system with Trinium's software, PeopleNet said.

McLeod Software’s purchase of Enterprise Information Solutions positions the No. 2 provider of enterprise software for motor carriers to compete for the first time for business from less-than-truckload companies — a trucking niche that appears hungry for new technology, vendors said.

Considering the treatment that a budding chief information officer once might have gotten on the playground from a budding truck driver, it is no small thing in 2010 to hear that the successful trucking company desperately needs both of these people to move the freight and make a profit.