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Mack Records Sixth Straight Year of U.S. Market Share Growth

Mack Records Sixth Straight Year of U.S. Market Share Growth

Mack Trucks Inc. announced that it closed 1998 with 26,801 U.S. Class 8 retail sales, which represented 12.8 percent of the heavy truck market. ... Continue reading

12 Truck Drivers Named Regional Goodyear Highway Heroes

12 Truck Drivers Named Regional Goodyear Highway Heroes

Twelve truck drivers representing 11 states and provinces are one step closer to being named the 1998 Goodyear National Highway Hero, Goodyear announced. ... Continue reading

24 Truck Drivers Named State Highway Heroes

24 Truck Drivers Named State Highway Heroes

Everyday, throughout North America, ordinary citizens perform heroic deeds that may not make the evening news and often go unnoticed. ... Continue reading

'My First Car' Concept Designs Combine Style With Affordability

'My First Car' Concept Designs Combine Style With Affordability

Center for Creative Studies students conceived these dynamic designs, which include a compact coupe, a hatchback and a sport utility vehicle (SUV). ... Continue reading

Mack Partners with Oshkosh Truck

Mack Partners with Oshkosh Truck

Mack Trucks, Inc. and Oshkosh Truck Corporation announced a partnership agreement that will allow each company to offer a new generation of Mack front-discharge concrete mixers featuring leading-edge technologies. ... Continue reading

Eye Dynamics, Inc. to Seek Mandatory Testing with the EPS-100

Eye Dynamics, Inc. to Seek Mandatory Testing with the EPS-100

A recent Oregon State Police report stated that nearly one out of 10 truck drivers tested positive for drug use in an October operation along the south border of Oregon. ... Continue reading

SC Truck Driver of the Year Announced

SC Truck Driver of the Year Announced

Driving 4 million miles without a chargeable accident over a 45 year career has earned professional truck driver Jerry William Barton recognition as the 1998 South Carolina Truck Driver of the Year. ... Continue reading

Trailer Bridge Reports Third Quarter Results

Trailer Bridge Reports Third Quarter Results

Trailer Bridge, Inc., reported total revenue of $18,851,977 for the three months ended September 30, 1998, an increase of $2,175,877 or 13.0% compared to the third quarter of 1997. ... Continue reading

Celadon Group, Inc. Subsidiary Elected to Mexico's Trucking Ass

Celadon Group, Inc. Subsidiary Elected to Mexico's Trucking Ass

Celadon Group, Inc. announced that its Celadon Trucking Services, Inc. subsidiary has been elected a member of CANACAR, Mexico's trucking association. ... Continue reading

Goodyear, American Trucking Associations Establish Truck Driver Hall of Fame

Goodyear, American Trucking Associations Establish Truck Driver Hall of Fame

Alexandria, Va., will soon join Cleveland, Cooperstown, N.Y., and a growing list of cities that lay claim to being home to Halls of Fame. Alexandria's planned Hall of Fame, however, has little to do with rock and roll or baseball stars, focusing instead on everyday heroes. ... Continue reading

Park 'N View and TravelCenters of America Join to Offer Telecom Services

Park 'N View and TravelCenters of America Join to Offer Telecom Services

Park 'N View and TravelCenters of America announced, at the annual American Trucking Association conference, a partnership in principle specifying PNV as primary provider of TA's internal and external telecommunications services. ... Continue reading

Customers Agree: Volvo VN Series is Best in Class

Customers Agree: Volvo VN Series is Best in Class

Truck owners rated the Volvo VN Series highest in terms of overall quality in a recent survey of the best-selling new highway tractors introduced since 1996 -- the Volvo VN Series, the Freightliner Century Class and the Kenworth T2000. ... Continue reading

Cascade Corporation Files 1,630,000 Share Shelf Registration for Holders

Cascade Corporation Files 1,630,000 Share Shelf Registration for Holders

Cascade Corporation has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering 1,630,000 common shares for holders of equity interests received when Cascade acquired Kenhar Corporation, Industrial Tires Limited, and Hyco-Cascade Pty., Ltd.. ... Continue reading

PACCAR Donates Research Vehicle to Virginia Technical Center

PACCAR Donates Research Vehicle to Virginia Technical Center

PACCAR Inc announced today that it donated a Peterbilt truck to the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to support development of intelligent transportation systems ... Continue reading

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