California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

President Obama and Transportation Secretary LaHood have announced that $27 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds are headed to states to provide critical repairs to our nation’s crumbling roads and bridges.

According to a Michelin North America release, a 383-page report made available in March by the Department of Energy’s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirms that wide single tires are more fuel efficient than duals on heavy trucks. More than 700,000 real-world miles were driven by six instrumented tractors and 10 trailers over the course of the fourth-year test.

A federal judge in Chicago on May is issued temporary restraining orders to shut down telemarketing campaign that made hundreds of millions of allegedly deceptive “robo-cals” promoting vehicle warranty contracts.

Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood said the United States could reopen its roads to Mexican trucks as soon as June, Bloomberg reported.

The drayage fleets serving the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles are going green at a faster clip than anticipated, and if the conversion continues at the present rate, the ports will meet their 2012 goal of slashing truck-related pollution by 80 percent as early as this December, according to one projection.

The prospective buyer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., was announced a day after GM filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and almost a year after the company put Hummer on the block.