America's Port Truckers Deliver a Resounding Yes Winning Union Recognition as Teamsters in Historic Vote; Drivers Coast to Coast Cite Los Angeles Vict
Australia's Toll Group Anti-Union Rampage in U.S. Flops; Defeat Signals Global Supply Chain Industry Losing Decades-Long Grip on Workforce it Treats as Disposable    LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amidst jubilant chants of "Yes We Did!" in Spanish and English, a brave group of professional truck drivers who haul brand-name fashion imports celebrated late evening news that they trounced in their closely-watched election to unite as Teamsters, despite their foreign employer's vicious and expensive year-long campaign to intimidate workplace leaders and suppress their free choice.

NTEA Work Truck Show 2012 Preps to Break Records in Indianapolis
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Work Truck Show® 2012 is shaping up to be the biggest work truck event in history when it returns to the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis next week.

ATA Files Issue Statement with Court in HOS Challenge
ARLINGTON, Va., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, in a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, American Trucking Associations identified four areas where the Obama administration's recent hours-of-service rule falls short of legal standards for regulatory changes. (Logo: ) In a Statement of Issues filed with the Court, ATA contends that several aspects of the rule issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are "arbitrary and capricious" and should be overturned. Specifically, ATA questioned changes to the restart provision requiring that it include two consecutive periods between 1 a.m.

ATA Urges Highway Bill Conferees to Support Electronic Logging Device Mandate
ARLINGTON, Va., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves today called on members of the upcoming conference committee on the surface transportation bill to do the right thing for driver and highway safety and require motor carriers use electronic logging devices to promote drivers' compliance with hours of service driving limits. (Logo: ) "We urge conferees in both bodies to adopt the Senate's requirement for carriers to use electronic logging devices to monitor drivers' hours-of-service compliance," Graves said.

Strategic Analysis of North American Class 4-8 Truck Engine Oil Factory Fill Market
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Strategic Analysis of North American Class 4-8 Truck Engine Oil Factory Fill Market A comprehensive analysis of the North American class 4 - 8 truck factory fill market through the study period of 2011 - 2017 with its base year in 2011.

Stater Bros. Honors Truck Drivers at Annual "Safe Driving Awards Banquet"
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Stater Bros. Supermarkets recently honored its 297 Truck Drivers at the Company's 28th Annual Safe Driving Awards Banquet at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California.  (Photo: ) The current roster of Stater Bros.

ATA Truck Tonnage Increased 0.5% in February
ARLINGTON, Va., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.5% in February after falling 4.6% in January.  (January's decrease was more than the preliminary 4% drop we reported on February 28th.) The latest gain put the SA index at 119.3 (2000=100), up from January's level of 118.7.  Compared with February 2011, the SA index was up 5.5%, better than January's 3.1% increase.  (Logo: ) The not seasonally adjusted index, which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by the fleets before any seasonal adjustment, equaled 112.9 in February, which was 1.3% above the previous mont ...