Trucking News

Truck makers and equipment manufacturers say they have so far seen little change in ordering pattern

Truckers operating in the Midwestern states will ask government regulators to grant a 2.5 percent hi

Recent moves in the trailer and container leasing business are starting to look like a game of music

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At 91 on-ramps along six expressways radiating out of Chicago, drivers come to a stoplight that blin

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Bids Mount in Program To 'Rebuild' New YorkALBANY, N.Y. - The New York State Department of T

Clark Equipment Co., which has struggled for survival for most of the 1980s, has another kind of fig

Heavy truck sales continued to show muscle in May with double-digit gains over sales a year ago, pre

Gelco Corp. reported third quarter net earnings increased to $1 million, or 14 cents a share, for it

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THE THREE MAJOR AEROSPACE COMPANIES THAT ARE PARTNERS in the European Airbus Industrie consortium ma

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TNT North America Inc. announced the purchase of a specialty truck line using a patented trailer to

XTRA Corp. said it has agreed to acquire the fleet of piggyback trailers now operated by Availco Sys

CWT's Management Hopes to Buy GerberFREMONT, Mich. - Gerber Products Co. announced that the

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The deadlines are set and the rules are in place, but the success of the single commercial driver's

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New England Agrees To Oversize RulesCAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Five of six New England states, actin

A table accompanying an article in Thursday's edition on public stock offerings misspelled the name

Kentucky will raise its speed limit to 65 miles per hour on rural sections of interstate highways Ju

Truck lines operating in the Eastern Central United States approved a proposal to hike freight price

Chrysler Truck Sales Set Record in PeriodDETROIT - Chrysler Motors reported total truck sale

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Most of the nation's largest truckload carriers say they will abide by the 55- mile-per-hour speed l

The Aluminum Company of America says it will increase prices of aluminum beverage can body stock, en

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If you have read the financial news pages casually in recent years, you might think that not much wa

Nissan Trucks Add AutomaticsNissan medium-duty trucks for 1988 will be available with automa

In this age of consolidation, PACCAR Inc. decisively turns thumbs down to the notion of combining it

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Two major trucking industry rate bureaus scuttled proposed July price hikes but said they would agai

Robust Sales Increase Truck Output SharplyRobust truck sales are expected to push domestic t

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Ask a California driver these days - traffic is a mess and getting worse. The state's love affair wi

New York motorists not satisfied with auto body repairs would have up to six months or 6,000 miles a

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