Author: Transport Topics

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao kicked off Infrastructure Week with the hopeful message that the Trump Administration is keeping its options open for ways to pay for its planned 10-year, $1.5 trillion infrastructure program. But that message — and, perhaps, the very goal of the weeklong initiative itself — was somewhat offset by the reality that U.S. lawmakers likely won’t get anything done on infrastructure this year.

Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies announced its new Endurant 12-speed automated transmission now is available on International LT Series and LoneStar trucks.

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Digital freight broker Convoy announced a program for small carriers and owner-operators that enables them to use their power equipment to pick up Convoy’s pre-positioned, loaded trailers from shippers in select areas.

Freight forwarder AFF Global Logistics purchased Alaska Express, a domestic freight forwarding firm serving the Alaska market.

Johnson Controls’ power solutions unit announced it has been awarded contracts to supply absorbent glass mat and flooded batteries to two heavy-duty commercial truck and bus industry leaders — Navistar Inc. and MAN Truck & Bus Co., a unit of Volkswagen AG — in an effort to meet increasing electrical demands on fleets around the globe.

Transport Topics has earned five national awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, including gold awards for Website Redesign and On-Site Trade Show Coverage.

Trucking industry insurance broker Kunkel & Associates will offer to its customers more than 70 online driver training courses from CarriersEdge, the provider of safety and compliance courses for the industry.

Volvo Trucks expanded its European push into electrification, announcing its FE electric model, intended for heavier city distribution and refuse transport operations with gross weights of up to 59,525 pounds.

For-hire carrier ArcBest reported May 10 first-quarter net income of $9.9 million, or 37 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $7.4 million, or $.29 cents, in the same period of 2017.