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Paid Natural Resources Canada launches new Green Freight Assessment Program
OTTAWA, Ont. – The SmartWay Canada team and Natural Resources Canada are launching a new Freight Assessment Program to help Canadian carriers better determine where improvements can be made to lower fuel costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to…
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Blackberry on trucking’s radar
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Blackberry has improved the ability of its Radar trailer tracking system to detect trailer cargo capacity. It uses flight sensors to detect very precisely – to 99.9 accuracy – the amount of space remaining in a trailer.…
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Paid Natural Resources Canada launches new Green Freight Assessment Program
OTTAWA, Ont. – The SmartWay Canada team and Natural Resources Canada are launching a new Freight Assessment Program to help Canadian carriers better determine where improvements can be made to lower fuel costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to…
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Polaris appoints new CTO
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Dave Brajkovich has been appointed Polaris Transportation Group’s new chief technology officer. Since 2015 Dave Brajkovich actively served on Polaris’s board of directors before accepting this newly created position. Dave will be based out of the Polaris…
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P.S.I. names new senior director of engineering
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Pressure Systems International has named Steve Miller its senior director of engineering. According to P.S.I., Miller will be a key part of its product and quality engineering teams. His focus will be on ensuring that P.S.I.’s…
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Bison wins Best Fleets contest for third consecutive year
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – For the third year in a row, Bison Transport has been named the best overall large carrier in the Best Fleets To Drive For program. The Best Fleets survey and contest, now in its tenth year, was…
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Petro-Canada’s Duron wins award
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Petro-Canada Lubricants says its Duron next-generation product line has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its innovation. The oil was benchmarked against 10 criteria, including reliability, quality, and customer service experience, according to the company. It…
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Wabco appoints new CTO
BRUSSELS, Belgium – Wabco Holdings today announced that Christian Brenneke has been promoted to chief technology officer. Brenneke succeeds Christian Wiehen as CTO. Wiehen retired in 2017 following a career of nearly 30 years with Wabco. In his new role,…
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Paccar’s Ste-Therese plant wins award
STE-THERESE, Que. – Paccar’s Ste-Therese, Que., medium-duty truck plant has won a Frost & Sullivan award for manufacturing leadership. The award recognizes production technology advancements, and was won for the plant’s frame transfer efficiency improvement project. Paccar says the project…
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Talbert celebrates 80 years
RENSSELAER, Ind. – Eighty years after Austin Talbert first opened the doors to his company, Talbert Manufacturing is still going strong. Founded in 1938 as a heavy haul, crane rental, and construction equipment business in Lyons, Ill., Talbert made its…
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No silver bullet solution
Green Truck Summit keynote addresses how carriers benefit from green technologies
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MTO allows permits for smart lift axles, longer tractors for semi-trailers
TORONTO, Ont. — The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) announced today that the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has officially formalized permit programs for the use of smart lift-axles (SML) on semi-trailers and for the use of longer tractors (up to 6.8 metre…
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Bendix to open new engineering center in Mexico
ELYRIA, Ohio – Bendix announced today that it will open a new engineering research and development center in Monterrey, Mexico, later this year. The new 7,800-sq. ft. space, located within an existing building at the Research and Technological Innovation Park…
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Phillips Connect Technologies helps fleets manage trailer intel
ATLANTA, Ga. – Trailers are getting smarter, and Phillips Connect Technologies says it has made significant strides in the past year towards helping fleets manage that intelligence. PCT was launched last year with a goal of, through its TrailerNet platform,…
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Trucking journalists name top tech achievements of 2017
ATLANTA, Ga. — Five innovative trucking technologies have been named finalists for the 2017 Jim Winsor Memorial Technical Achievement Award presented by the North American Truck Writers Awards Committee. The committee, comprised of truck writers from most major North American…
