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TomTom Launches the TRUCKER 5000

TomTom Launches the TRUCKER 5000

Get the most out of driving time, through truck-specific routing and world-class TomTom Traffic information – now in a compact version ~ TomTom (TOM2) announced an addition to its portable navigation device line-up, specifically for people who drive large vehicles for a living. The compact TomTom TRUCKER 5000, wit ... Continue reading

International Truck First Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer To Introduce Over-The-Air Reprogramming

International Truck First Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer To Introduce Over-The-Air Reprogramming

Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer Introduces Revolutionary Step in Connectivity Customer-Centric, Over-the-Air Connected Vehicle Technologies Continue to Drive Uptime Improvements, Provide Customers with Real-World Operational Efficiencies LISLE, IL -- Aug. 31, 2015: International Truck today announced it plans to offer ... Continue reading

Rand McNally to Demo Navigation Products, Support Veterans Group at Great American Trucking Show (GATS)

Rand McNally to Demo Navigation Products, Support Veterans Group at Great American Trucking Show (GATS)

Drivers can win award-winning IntelliRoute® TND™ truck-specific GPS device SKOKIE, IL -- Aug. 21, 2015: Rand McNally is inviting all professional drivers to stop by its booth at the Great American Trucking Show (GATS) in Dallas from Aug. 27-Aug. 29, 2015 for product giveaways, informational demonstrations, show ... Continue reading

California to Be One of the Top Beneficiaries From New Truck Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Rules

California to Be One of the Top Beneficiaries From New Truck Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Rules

Success depends on fuel-neutral approach, nationwide uniformity and harmonization LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With one of the largest medium and heavy duty fleets in the country, California stands to benefit the most from the federal government's proposed truck fuel efficiency and green ... Continue reading

Ronald Emenheiser, Sr. Wins Bendix National Truck Driving Grand Championship

Ronald Emenheiser, Sr. Wins Bendix National Truck Driving Grand Championship

Saturday, Ronald Emenheiser, Sr., a Walmart Transportation professional truck driver based in Yorkana, Pa., was named 2015 Bendix Grand Champion at the 78th annual National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships, hosted by American Trucking Associations. "All the competitors who took pa ... Continue reading

Annual 'Super Bowl of Safety' Kicks Off in St. Louis

Annual 'Super Bowl of Safety' Kicks Off in St. Louis

More Than 430 Professionals Competing in the National Truck Driving Championships ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, more than 430 of the nation's safest professional drivers began their pursuit of the most coveted title in the industry: Bendix National Truck Driving Championships Grand Champion ... Continue reading

Nation's Top Truck Drivers Set to Compete in St. Louis

Nation's Top Truck Drivers Set to Compete in St. Louis

Gateway City to Host 78th Annual National Truck Driving Championships -- Next week, more than 400 top professional truck drivers from across the country will head to St. Louis for the 78th annual "Super Bowl of Safety," the 2015 National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships, hosted by ... Continue reading

Clean Diesel Power Key Part of Achieving Future Truck Efficiency Gains

Clean Diesel Power Key Part of Achieving Future Truck Efficiency Gains

The success in reaching the first phase of greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles and the new complex challenges facing truck and engine manufacturers in achieving the proposed second phase of regulations were outlined today during a rulemaking hearing conducted by Environmental Protection ... Continue reading

CNG Vs. Diesel Now A Fair Fight

CNG Vs. Diesel Now A Fair Fight

NGVAmerica Celebrates the Passage of LNG Tax Fix by the U.S. Congress Washington, D.C. July 30, 2015; NGVAmerica celebrates the passage of legislation by the House of Representatives and the Senate that corrects a longstanding inequity in the way liquefied natural gas (LNG) is taxed and will further expand the use of c ... Continue reading

Highway Safety Leaders Deliver Highway Safety Message

Highway Safety Leaders Deliver Highway Safety Message

National Share the Road Safety Tour Visits Moline, Ill. to Educate Motorists The American Trucking Associations' Share the Road highway safety tour delivered a message of highway safety here today at the headquarters of ATA member Tennant Truck Lines. The tour visited Moline at a particularly important time for highway ... Continue reading

The Great American Trucking Show Returns with New Events and Experiences

The Great American Trucking Show Returns with New Events and Experiences

After seeing unprecedented success in 2014, The Great American Trucking Show, Randall-Reilly's award-winning trade show, is returning to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas, TX with a host of new experiences. "This year we really wanted to make sure that all of our efforts were focused around building ... Continue reading

Auto Lab Radio Call-in | Saturday July 4, 2015 - Best of Auto Lab

Auto Lab Radio Call-in | Saturday July 4, 2015 - Best of Auto Lab

Auto Lab Call-in | Saturday July 4, 2015 - Best of Auto Lab ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks Reality Series Starring Mapei Here On The Auto Channel +VIDEO

Volvo Trucks Reality Series Starring Mapei Here On The Auto Channel +VIDEO

reality TV with the artist Mapei. During a nine-day road-trip through Europe, she will record a new music video with director Liza Minou Morberg. To help them, they have a Volvo truck filled with props and one of the world’s best drivers, Jens Karlsson from “The Epic Split”. The result can be seen in the ... Continue reading

Daimler SuperTruck Study Receives Award from the U.S. Department of Energy

Daimler SuperTruck Study Receives Award from the U.S. Department of Energy

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has received the “Distinguished Achievement Award” of the U.S. Department of Energy. With this prestigious award, the Department has recognized the commitment and extraordinary results of the SuperTruck Study. These show ways in which the road goods transport of the future can be m ... Continue reading

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