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VHD Equipment Network to Merge into Power Heavy Duty
CRYSTAL LAKE, IL -- VIPAR Heavy Duty has announced its VHD Equipment Network of distributors will transition into the Power Heavy Duty LLC the first of 2016. The combination of the two groups into one will allow the organization to maximize efficiencies while focusing on growing business with members, supplier partners and their collective customers, according to VIPAR. The merger will also result in a network of hundreds of locations in Canada and the U.S.
Trucking Names Make Fastest Growing Companies List
TORONTO - Companies known to many people in trucking are among the many listed in the just published 2015 Profit 500 Ranking of Canada's Fastest Growing Companies. The 27th annual rundown by Profit magazine includes not just the overall rankings but also a special transportation and logistics section, featuring the 28 fastest growing firms in this sector of the economy.
Many Drivers Say No to Paying for Reserved Parking
ARLINGTON, VA - Nearly half of truck drivers say they would refuse to pay for reserved parking, according to just published results in a survey over truck parking. That's according to the American Transportation Research Institute, which has released the findings in its "Commercial Driver Perspectives on Trucking Parking" survey.
Trailer Wizards Joins Hunger Awareness Week Campaign
MISSISSAUGA, ON -- Trailer Wizards Ltd. is sponsoring Food Banks Canada's 2015 Hunger Awareness Week for the third consecutive year. During this campaign, 'Let's Bring Some Focus To Hunger", the trailer dealer and its employees will be spreading awareness of the issue of hunger across the country and the need for donations to food banks as well as supporting national programs now through Sept. 25.
New U.S. Truck Emissions Rules May Be Tougher Than Expected
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The trucking industry is finally hearing some frank discussion about Phase 2 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction proposal that Canada is expected to adopt in one form or another. At the FTR Conference in Indianapolis Wednesday, a Daimler Trucks North America regulatory expert told attendees the standards are likely to be much more difficult to meet than originally believed. Amy Kopin, regulatory and compliance program manager, said because of the variations that are inherent in some of the testing procedures, and the lack of reasonable compliance margins, truck and engine makers may need to design products to exceed the rule's requirements just to come in under the compliance margins. "There are all kinds of technical provisions and problems with compliance that EPA has built into Phase 2 that make the rule almost twice as stringent as it should be," Kopin said. "They have made incorrect assumptions with many of their baselines, and they have over-estimated the rate of customer uptake on many technologies as well. These all affect the way equipment makers earn their credits, and because of that, we will have to compensate for those shortfalls in other ways."
FMCSA Chief Outlines Year-End Priorities
WASHINGTON, D.C. - If you truck into the U.S. there are some changes that will take place in the landscape between now and the end of the year that could affect your operations. The top trucking regulator in the U.S. has laid out his priorities for the rest of the year, that include rules for electronic logging devices (ELDs) to track driver compliance with hours of service (HOS) requirements.
