It suffered from overcapacity and bad service, and the newly deregulated trucking industry was siphoning customers.
Eve Partners, a mergers-and-acquisitions firm for the trucking industry, started to do e-mail campaigns.
Both organizations argue that improved fuel efficiency growing out of this ruling will save the trucking industry lots of money.
The trucking industry calls this the "chicken and egg" problem: which will come first -- LNG trucks or LNG refueling stations?
Another focus of our mission is to celebrate the accomplishments of women who have been role models and leaders in the trucking industry.
While other parts of the U.S. economy stagger along the road to recovery, the trucking industry is cruising along, performing better than the economy at large.
The recession a few years ago hit the trucking industry particularly hard, so we should take those outsized profit gains with a bit of salt.
The trucking industry is starting the switch, with compressed natural gas being used in local delivery trucks and liquefied natural gas in over-the-road trucks, trains and barges.
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The trucking industry, which has been filled with visionary early adopters, also realized years ago that operating an NGV can save thousands of dollars in fuel costs.
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That's why the trucking industry is looking for some help from the federal government in the form of infrastructure improvement, tax credits and a well-funded Highway Trust Fund.
Many others work in various roles within the trucking industry.
But the trucking industry has been beset with a chronic shortage of drivers, rising fuel costs, clogged highways and new federal rules that reduce the number of hours truckers can drive.
If orders do increase, that could tax a trucking industry that shrank dramatically in the recession, said Rosalyn Wilson, a Delcan Corp. analyst who compiles the Penske State of Logistics Report.
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The Women In Trucking Association was formed to encourage women to consider careers within the trucking industry, but we also work to address obstacles that women (and men) face that might keep them from succeeding.
In Europe the trucking industry has settled on a technology called selective catalytic reduction, in which urea is periodically injected into the exhaust system to break down the NOx, converting nitrogen oxides into (somewhat) harmless ammonia.
The trucking industry provides a good analogy.
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Consistent with safety standards, we will continue removing restraints on the bus and railroad industries, we will soon end up legislation--or send up legislation, I should say--to return Conrail to the private sector where it belongs, and we will support further deregulation of the trucking industry.
For now ArvinMeritor is marketing its plasma fuel reformer to the commercial trucking industry, which is scrambling to comply with tough new emission laws that are looming in Europe and the U.S. By 2007 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require a 90% reduction in the amount of soot (unburned carbon).
Trucking and gas industry officials at the summit were bullish about the prospects for natural gas, and confident that the environmental issues could be addressed.
Trucking is a fiercely competitive industry, with dozens of firms providing a variety of trucking services.
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Auto sales should keep on trucking into 2012, according to some industry experts.
Thursday, the industry's trade organization, the American Trucking Associations (ATA), unveiled a program it says will cut fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons during the next 10 years.
The previous two oil disruptions, in 1973 and 1979, caused both higher fuel prices and reduced demand for trucking here in the United States, double whammies for the industry.
Industry experts say a number of factors are contributing to the current environment for trucking, which is often seen as a leading indicator of economic activity.
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