This decision could have many benefits for Lee’s Summit R-7 School District as it travels down the road and we certainly want to applaud the school district for being the first to make this choice and having the vision to see the future. Hopefully this choice has even more benefits for the school district than are probably at present being estimated by many professionals in both the education field and transportation industry. If the benefits are as great as expected, we can certainly expect this decision to spur more school districts and other industries around the United States to start to look at how using all-electric delivery vehicles could benefit their business operations.

Long haul professionals conducting roro and ltl freight shipping duties on the roads of the United States of America watching the growth of all-electric delivery vehicles in the transport industry of America will certainly smile when they hear this news. This news means that the growth of all-electric vehicles in the heavy haul trucking industry of America is just down the road a little and we they can certainly expect to be driving a similar transport vehicle, somewhere down the road.

Called the “Cargo Tank Driver Rollover Prevention Video” this new driver tool is designed to help drivers reduce the chances of a rollover while conducting freight shipping duties on the transport roads of America. According to sources rollovers are rare in the long haul trucking industry of the United States, but when they do happen the consequences are tremendous for all involved, and this driver tool hopes to reduce tanker transport safety and reduce the risk of rollovers on the transport highways of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment.

This new tool is just the latest move made by the National Tank Truck Carriers Association and the American Trucking Association, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation, to increase the level of safety for tanker transport drivers and the trucking industry of the United States of America as a whole. During the past three years this partnership has worked together to convene rollover prevention summits and to reach out to tanker drivers with information and other efforts to try to raise the awareness of safety in the tanker industry of America.

The growth of incentives provided to heavy-duty truck manufacturers designing a generation of hybrid trucks and trucking companies that want to make the shift to hybrid transport trucks has been increasing of late also and this is certainly going to provide the shift to hybrid long haul freight trucks with momentum in the short term. The growth in hybrid freight trucks on the transport roads of America is going to have to be fueled by the benefits that will be provided by the new technologies as well though and this is going to have to translate into lower maintenance and fuel costs and a reduced carbon wheel-print for the freight shipping industry of the United States of America as it travels further down the road into the century of the environment, if the shift is going to continue to gain momentum.

Hybrid transport trucks could in fact prove to have benefits that many in the trucking industry might not have focused in on yet, such as better cost stability during a time when fuel prices have been rather chaotic, increased investment by governments in new technologies and their implementation in the trucking industry, and other benefits associated with using hybrid transport trucks that can offer an attractive option for a trucking company in America.

Plans at this stage of the project included the deployment of 100 of these deer-vehicle collision prevention units along a 1.5-mile stretch of the route in question that according to sources has experienced a number of collisions between deers and vehicles in the past. These units are apparently activated by the approaching headlights of vehicles and set off sounds and a stroke light that according to the designers represents movements to deers nearby. Hopefully preventing the deer from continuing across the road as they stop by the side of the road to examine the sound and strobe light caused by the approaching vehicle. The designers indicate that because these units are only activated by an approaching vehicle, they shouldn’t stop deer from crossing the highway, when no vehicles are approaching, and these units can even be programmed with different sounds in case the deer become use to the sounds being used.

The first reports coming from the Utah Department of Transportation are pretty good, with no reported carcasses of deer found along the stretch of highway in question, since the units were first put in place in early May. The Utah Department of Transportation has been pretty quiet about this, other than providing the statistics collected, so far, and they appear to be playing it safe and haven’t at this time announced any conclusions based on the results of this experiment.

This is a great chance for heavy haul professionals of the United States interested in the growth of the use of LNG and CNG fuels in the transport industry of America to have a look at a facility that’s likely to become more and more familiar to freight shipping professionals in the United States of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment. It’s also something you can tell other trucking professionals that work at your trucking company about and an opportunity to meet other transport professionals interested in the growth of the use of LNG and CNG in the transport industry of the United States of America.

Sources surrounding this event indicate that there will also be a number of important speakers on hand that will interest Americans, like the City of Commerce Mayor Tina Baca Del Rio; the current director for the City of Commerce Transportation Department, Ray Tellis; and Federal Transit Administration team leader Samara Emmersen. Drop by on Thursday and check out the ribbon cutting ceremony, have a listen to what the speakers have to say and check out the new liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas fueling station. There will certainly be other trucking professionals on hand to talk to and you’ll get to have a look at one picture of the future of transport in America in the years ahead in the century of the environment.

The low-cost trucks of companies like Tata Motors and Mahindra haven’t penetrated the freight industry of the United States much, as yet, but if the volume of freight that needs to be transported to destination in the years ahead continues to increase, as all expect, some freight industry professionals believe we might see more companies implementing these low-cost trucks in their trucking operations? We might also see more of these light and medium-duty low-cost trucks implemented in urban centers as firms decide to use more transport vehicles with smaller ranges in their operations, according to some transport professionals close to this affair.

This could be an opportunity for trucking professionals in the United States to get a snapshot of the upcoming roadside inspection environment, check out a few forums called to discuss and evaluate any successes that have been achieved of late in the industry, and talk about possible areas of improvement for the future. The North American Inspectors Championship has always been an opportunity for future leaders in the industry to develop, the business of transport to strengthen bonds; and inspectors, states and the trucking industry in America to pull together, according to many transport professionals in America.

Stop by Columbus, Ohio between August 2-8 and show your support for the commercial vehicle inspectors tasked with ensuring the safety of the transport vehicles traveling on the roads of the United States. This could be a chance for the trucking industry of America and the road inspection professionals to enhance a beautiful relationship that will need to grow and strengthen in the years ahead, if the freight industry of America is to continue to improve and grow and travel down the road we desire.

What did the CK Commercial Vehicle Research survey indicate about the current pulse of freight shipping professionals around the United States of America? According to sources the results of this survey indicate that about 68 percent of the companies surveyed were planning on investing in new trailers by the end of 2010. A sign according to many of a general optimism in the trucking industry about the future, especially the next few months, and the need to prepare to take care of increasing volumes of freight that will need to be transported by road in America in the days and weeks ahead in the century of the environment. Great news that will definitely put a smile on the faces of freight industry professionals around the United States and a hop in their step as they head to work tomorrow morning.

Why did the California Air Resources Board decide to look at easing the emission standards for model year 2003 transport refrigeration units operating on the transport roads of California at this time? According to sources around the freight industry of America the retrofitted technology needed to do the job of meeting the ELETRU standards are not quite able to do the job required, just yet, but the amendments being proposed could be achieved by installing a readily available Level 2 verified diesel emissions control system.

The amendments will have to be voted on by the board tasked with the job, sometime in November, and if everything goes as plannned we could see the amendments become law sometime in 2011, according to sources around the American freight industry. Until the amendments become law though CARB recomments that operators of model year 2003 engines look at installing a Level 2 verified diesel emissions control system by December 31, 2010, just in case.

Yale Materials Handling Corporation also indicates that this new series of lift trucks offers a maintenance-free, built-in, patented-design stability system, have lifting capacities ranging from 3,000 to 19,000 pounds and can use both cushion and pneumatic tires. In addition, the new Veracitor VX lift trucks have a powertrain that features a computer-controlled engine and transmission, a heavy-duty clutch, and stronger gears and shafts, and multiple powertrain configurations are possible with this new line of lift trucks. Yale Material Handling Corporation’s Yale Continuous Stability Enhancement system is designed to reduce truck lean in turns and improve the lateral stability of the load using a system that uses no controllers, sensors or extra wiring that’s normally included in complex electronic systems that can break down.