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Volume 93, Number 1 • January 2014
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Masthead
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Deborah Lockridge
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Winning the information race
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Washington Report
• 34-hour restart throws smoke but gets little
traction
• Fuel tax hike proposal draws industry support
• EPA proposes to cut renewable fuel requirements
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Hotline
• Q&A;: Navistar's Bill Kozek
• Rush expansion strategy
• New charts and graphs
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Safety & Compliance
When workers'
comp & the
ADA overlap
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Top News Stories
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Truckinginfo Web-Only
Features
Are We Sacrifcing Traction for Fuel Economy?
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Once Around The Yard
Technology
How IT can help cut your cost per mile
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Navistar Engine Case
Little Common Ground at Restart
Hearing
FuelSmarts
How Salvation Army won its P&D; Battles
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Broker Licenses
2 ABF Closing 30 Terminals
3 Driver Seeks HOS Exemption
4 Federal Court Rules Against EPA in
Expect Big Impact on Workers Comp from
Obesity Classifcation
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Dual-fuel gliders
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Some of December's hottest stories:
1 FMCSA Revokes Around 2,000 Freight
Tires & Wheels
Cool that's Also Clean: Fuel Cells for
Refrigerated Trucks
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What We're Blogging About
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Keeping your wheels in the game
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All That's Trucking
Trailers
Saving pounds by looking down
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Tech Bytes
What's new in the tech world
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By Deborah Lockridge
Video: Epic Numbers for Volvo's
Epic Split Video
Trailer Talk
By Tom Berg
Te latest new product and equipment news
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Equipment Report
Snow on the Roof? Knock It Off
with Compressed Air, Driver Says
Locking It In
Torque rules
On the Road
By Jim Park
Video: The Perils of Winter
Driving, or Self-Inficted Wounds
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