Heavy duty vehicle lift leader Stertil-Koni has announced that it will once again sponsor this year’s National Lift Week. As the name implies, National Lift Week is a celebration of best practices in safety, efficiency, durability, and environmental friendliness in the heavy duty vehicle lifting industry. And, with that in mind, it’s only fitting that […]
As the largest Special Olympics ever hosted takes place in the City of Long Beach the week of August 3rd, the transportation demands of moving 6,500 athletes is no walk in the park, but it is a bit “greener.” One local resource tapped for the challenge is California’s Coach & Transit Bus manufacturer BYD Motors. […]
After launching a new ridesharing product in Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and Texas earlier this year, GEICO is now expanding its ridesharing offering to drivers in Pennsylvania – demonstrating that all aspects of the transportation industry are adapting to seismic changes in the way vehicles are used. New and existing drivers that have been approved to […]
In an era in which driver retention remains a key concern in the fleet field, EpicVue, providers of premium in-cab satellite TV packaged exclusively for the trucking industry, is helping to turn the tide. The company has announced that Metropolitan Trucking is installing EpicVue systems in all 350 of its over the road and regional […]
EpicVue, a leading provider of premium in-cab satellite TV engineered for the trucking industry, has announced the largest deal in the company’s history: Western Express, Inc. is installing EipicVue systems in 1,600 power units. According to EpicVue, the largest single fleet installation of EpicVue will be completed by September, and was selected to deliver a […]
Following pressure from a number of groups, including Consumer Watchdog, Google said it would issue regular reports offering some details of crashes involving its driverless cars. Google released its first of what it said would be monthly reports on a website dedicated to the driverless car project. Included in the report is a synopsis written […]
The electric vehicle (EV) coast-to-coast world record was unofficially broken by a team of six with an elapsed drive and charge time of just 58 hours and 55 minutes. Drivers Rodney Hawk, Deena Mastracci and Carl Reese departed from Los Angeles City Hall in a Tesla P85D on April 16 at 11:41 p.m. PST and […]
The Cooper Tire plant in Tupelo has earned the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s (MDEQ) enHance Partnership Award for 2015 for its “green” initiatives. The enHance program is a voluntary stewardship initiative that recognizes facilities and municipalities for putting in place environmental initiatives beyond those that are required. The Cooper Tupelo plant has been a […]
Most of recognize that driving in traffic is bad for your health, and sitting in traffic is even worse, but can red lights actually kill us? Potentially. With more cars than ever joining the roads, we are being exposed to increasing levels of air pollution as we undertake our daily commutes. So consider this: A […]
MAN Truck & Bus, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MAN Truck & Bus AG in Germany, has opened it’s first CO2-neutral commercial vehicle plant. The production site in Pinetown, South Africa, has implemented the company’s climate strategy by using only renewable energies. A huge photovoltaic system has been installed with solar panels on 6,300 square meters […]
