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TransVix moves corporate headquarters to Chattanooga

TransVix LLC, the company looking to become the first Trucking Futures Exchange, has announced the move of its corporate headquarters to Chattanooga, TN, from Fort Worth, TX.

TransVix said it is working to revolutionize the trucking industry by addressing one of the most significant challenges in freight transportation today— rate volatility.

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Winter Storm Niko Pounding Northeast

As of this morning, Winter Storm Niko is pummeling the Northeast along the heavily populated corridor running from Boston to Washington. While no major highways have been closed so far, the governors of several Northeastern states, including New York and Connecticut, are urging motorists to stay off the roads for safety's sake and to enable snow removal.

Winter storm warnings have been issued for an area that stretches from coastal Maine down through the rest of New England and southeastern New York State, then into New Jersey, eastern and central Pennsylvania, and parts of northern Delaware, northern Maryland and northern West Virginia.

While blizzard warnings are up for Cape Cod and on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts as well as for eastern and central Long Island in New York State, some local TV meteorologists, including WTNH in New Haven, Conn. are pointing out that “blizzard conditions” may occur locally this afternoon.

That's becasue, per a Weather.com post, Niko may turn into a "weather bomb”—a powerful low-pressure weather system that intensifies rapidly. To “bomb out,” the central pressure of a low-pressure system must drop at least 24 millibars within 24 hours. When that happens, winds increase dramatically and blizzard conditions can result, sometimes accompanied by lightning. As it happens, “thundersnow” has already been reported in Hartford, Conn. and cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in both Connecticut and New York's Hudson Valley.

Snow accumulations are being predicted in a range from at least 1 foot in much of southern New England and Long Island to between 6 inches and 1 foot in parts of Pennsylvania, much of New Jersey and New York City. Snowfall is expected to be much lighter in the southern Mid-Atlantic region, including the metro Baltimore and Washington areas.

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Hendrickson revamps TireMaax Pro ROI calculator

Hendrickson Trailer Commercial Vehicle Systems announced it has revamped its TireMaax Pro return-on-investment (ROI) calculator with a new look. The enhanced ROI calculator is designed to provide a user-friendly interface for determining the potential savings a fleet could achieve by specifying TireMaax Pro, an advanced tire pressure control system.

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Is it “vroom, vroom” time for V2X technology?

A new report from Navigant Research predicts that annual sales of light duty vehicles equipped with factory-installed vehicle-to-external or “V2X” communication systems – in past often referred to as vehicle-to-infrastructure or “V2I” technology – is expected to hit 70 million units by 2025; a market the consulting firm expects will be worth more than $25 billion.

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TMW integrates software with 123Loadboard

TMW Systems announced the integration of its TMW.Suite and TruckMate transportation management software solutions with 123Loadboard. Users of either TMW platform who also have accounts with 123Loadboard can post loads or trucks to its online marketplace via TMW's Freight Board Interface.

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ATA task force meets with Chao, congressional leaders

This week, members of the American Trucking Assns.' Infrastructure Task Force traveled to Washington to meet with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and key members of Congress to urge swift action to move forward with a long-term infrastructure spending package to address the need for highway and bridge improvements.

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