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House lawmakers should “oppose any floor amendments that would modify any of the truck size and weight provisions” in the five-year, $260 billion highway construction bill to be debated this week, Ed Hamberger, Association of American Railroads chief...
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Feedlots, packing plants and dairies are among the affected workforce. However, the measure proposed stretches farther than agriculture, said Allie Devine, former Secretary of Agriculture under Gov. Bill Graves, who is representing the coalition. ...
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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 09: President of Engine Business at Cummins Engine Company Rich Freeland (3rd L) speaks as (L-R) chief of technology for Eaton Corporation's Vehicle Group Tom Stover, Chairman and CEO of Navistar Dan Ustian, President and CEO of... View Photo »
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Don Schneider was a visionary, bringing business acumen and technology to blaze a trail and set the standard in the modern day development of our industry
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“For nearly a century, our company has been known as the trailer industry’s leader. That leadership includes not only participating but actively educating others and advocating our business in front of legislators and those outside our industry. In...
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“It’s important that you not have two very large, significant sectors of the transportation community at each others’ throats as the bill goes to the floor,” said James Burnley, a former U.S. transportation secretary and now
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“It’s important that you not have two very large, significant sectors of the transportation community at each others’ throats as the bill goes to the floor,” said James Burnley, a former U.S. transportation secretary and now
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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 09: President and CEO of American Trucking Associations Bill Graves (C) speaks as president of the Engine Manufacturers Association Jed Mandel (L), and president & CEO of North American Trucks of Volvo Dennis Slagle (R) listen... View Photo »
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Since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration first revised the hours-of-service rules in 2004, a coalition of advocacy groups and organized labor, abetted by their political allies, have tried through lobbying and litigation to undo what has proven to be a successful regulation
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Products Company again stepped up as an active charter member, and just five years later changed its name to Great Dane Trailers Inc. “2012 promises to be another year full of challenges and opportunities for the trucking industry, as well as the...
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”We’ve been operating under a series of extensions for more than 30 months,” Graves said, “so it is long past time that we set aside partisan and parochial turf wars and come together on a well-funded, multiyear highway bill. ”By focusing on the...
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