The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reinforced existing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission regulations via a “proposed determination” today for model year 2022 through 2025 light-duty vehicles – encompassing cars, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks, and vans.
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Fleet management software provider Omnitracs has formed a strategic partnership with Noregon to integrate vehicle diagnostic information into the company's software.
Through the partnership, Noregon's TripVision will be integrated into Omnitracs telematics platform to provide real-time insight into vehicle health and safety. Omnitracs customers will be able to access real-time vehicle information for all heavy-duty truck makes and models. The information will be presented in clear format, allowing customers to make timely, accurate decisions to improve performance and increase uptime.
“We are pleased to have Noregon as a strategic partner due to their expertise in commercial vehicle diagnostics,” said Richard Glasmann, vice president of OEM strategy, sales, and marketing at Omnitracs. “Being the leader in fleet telematics, Omnitracs recognizes the importance in partnering with industry leaders to provide the products and services that promote enhanced value to our end customers.”
Noregon offers diagnostic, repair, and monitoring applications are designed to help fleets better manage the health and safety of vehicles while improving operational efficiency.
“As we continue to advance the capabilities of accessing and analyzing vehicle information, we look to industry innovators like Omnitracs to integrate those insights directly into their business processes,” said Bill Hathaway, Noregon's founder and CEO.
Related: Omnitracs Expands Telematics Offering for More Fleet Types
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Transportation and logistics company TransForce has announced that it intends to change its corporate name to TFI International to reflect the increased geographic scope of its operations.
The change will be reviewed later this month at a special meeting of TransForce shareholders, to be held in Montreal, Quebec, where it will need a two-thirds majority of votes to be approved.
When approved, TransForce will file Articles of Amendment to put the name change into effect and the company expects that its shares will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the new name by the end of the year. TransForce's stock symbol TSX will also change to TFII.
“This change in our corporate identity is in line with the company's growing operations and footprint in the U.S. where we currently generate approximately 50% of our revenue,” said Alain Bédard, chairman, president and CEO.
In October, TransForce also changed the name of the North American truckload operation XPO Logistics to CFI after acquiring it as a wholly owned subsidiary. CFI represents an expansion of TransForce's truckload and logistics services across North America.
Related: CFI Name Returns With TransForce Acquisition
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...Read the rest of this storyKoegel equipped its Cargo display trailer with various types of load-securing devices for several kinds of freight. This one includes curtain sides and a fold-up roof tarp for side and top loading. Photos: Koegel
">Koegel equipped its Cargo display trailer with various types of load-securing devices for several kinds of freight. This one includes curtain sides and a fold-up roof tarp for side and top loading. Photos: Koegel
">Every once in a while cargo securement seems to become an issue, whether from a coil of steel that's fallen off a flatbed trailer and killed someone, or boxed merchandise busting through the walls of an overturned van that has formed a traffic-stopping mess.
Securement straps and chains are visible on a flatbed but not inside a van, so many cargoes travel with nothing but pressure from adjacent commodities and trailer walls keeping them in place. Federal rules require stuff in a van or reefer to be tied down, too, but it's ought of sight and evidently often overlooked by inspectors.
Apparently this is a concern in Europe, too, because Koegel, a dominant trailer builder in Germany, recently displayed a van with numerous securement options aboard. That was at the giant IAA show in Hannover.
The trailer's called the Cargo, and according to a Koegel press release, its features include a VarioFix perforated steel external frame equipped with 13 pairs of lashing rings for securing the load. Each ring can take 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of tensile force.
Inside, the IAA trailer had several optional load-securing packages in three rung sections for hauling waste paper, beverages, and tires, the release said. In addition to a riveted pallet limiting rail, the waste paper package had two rows of steel anchoring rails, a series of aluminum insertable slats or lattices, and aluminum telescoping beams to secure the load in or against the direction of travel.
“Individual equipment for securing crates and barrels demonstrates how a plank tarpaulin can be used with six vertical aluminum slats on the left-hand side,” the release ...Read the rest of this story
