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14 Jun 2013
Penske Truck Leasing has opened its $4.2 million facility in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center in Davenport, Iowa.
 
06 Jun 2013
Preliminary net orders for Class 8 trucks totaled 23,300 units in May, basically flat compared to the previous month, according to ACT Research.
 
05 Jun 2013
North America’s Class 8 truck net orders in May reached 22,541 units, dropping 2 percent compared with the previous month, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data.
Landstar logo on trailer
 
30 May 2013
Changes to truck driver hours-of-service rules now just a month away will have little to no impact on Landstar System’s existing business, and may even bring the nation’s fourth-largest truckload carrier more freight, a top executive says.
 
29 May 2013
Federal regulators are preparing an in-depth survey on whether electronic onboard devices used to record truck driver hours of service could be used by motor carriers to harass tired drivers, asking how to prevent potential abuse of the technology.
 
23 May 2013
General Motors will invest $44.5 million to build a logistics optimization center at its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan.
 
23 May 2013
Net orders for Class 8 trucks totaled just over 23,200 units in April, up 36 percent year-over-year, remaining above 20,000 units for a seventh consecutive month and reaching the second highest volume in 16 months...
Penske Truck Leasing's new Phoenix facility
 
21 May 2013
Penske Truck Leasing has opened its new $6 million, 24,000 square foot facility in Phoenix.
 
21 May 2013
DAF Trucks has selected DB Schenker in Brazil as its logistics service provider.