Customers ordered 28,393 new trailers in November, a 29.5% increase from the same month a year earlier and the largest monthly total since March 2006, ACT Research Co. said. Manufacturers suggested they were seeing even stronger activity during December. Through the first 11 months of the year, trailer manufacturers have received 207,404 orders, a 41% increase compared with the 147,141
Read MoreEven as expectations for the nation’s economic growth remain subdued, trucking may be on the cusp of one of its most profitable rides ever as freight demand in 2012 pushes against the limits of industry capacity, according to industry experts. The new year also could be historic in terms of regulatory changes, as federal officials continue to push for a ban on texting and cellphone use as
Read MoreKeith W. Tantlinger, b. 1919 By David Leonhardt Stacking boxes is not one of the more complex tasks that humans perform. We learn to do it as children, with alphabet blocks, Legos and the like. And yet for decades, the difficulty of stacking large boxes — crates and containers — was a major impediment to global trade. Merely moving one large container required painstaking work in which
Read MoreProduction in the Innovation Economy (PIE) seeks to analyze the state of production in the United States and to propose new routes from innovation through manufacturing to jobs and growth in the United States. We see exciting developments emerging in laboratories like those at MIT in areas including energy, life sciences, transportation, environment, communication, construction, and security. To
Read Moreby Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office A cohort of leading engineers, scientists, business executives and government officials gathered at MIT on Monday for a daylong forum, part of a White House initiative with an ambitious goal: turning America’s abundant laboratory advances into new technologies that will jump-start the U.S. economy. The meeting was part of the Advanced Manufacturing
Read MoreFrom Fleet Owner Magazine: A flooding Missouri River has shut down a portion of I-29 in Iowa and Missouri Read the full article on Fleet
Read MoreFrom Fleet Owner Magazine: Keith Kerman, asst. commissioner, talks about the greenest fleet in the county and its 2011 equipment strategies during the department's annual Fleet Show in Flushing Meadows Park. Read the full article on Fleet
Read MoreFrom Fleet Owner Magazine: Tom Rose, a driver for H.B. Russell Truck Services describes surviving a tornado strike that tore apart his trailer and rolled his tractor in Ringgold, GA. Read the full article on Fleet
Read MoreFrom Fleet Owner Magazine: Ryder's Scott Perry explains why the company is deploying a mix of LNG and CNG tractors as part of a $40 million natural gas transportation project in southern California. Read the full article on Fleet
Read MoreFrom Fleet Owner Magazine: A quick tour of the Freightliner 114SD, a new truck designed for a wide variety of vocational applications Read the full article on Fleet
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