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Rule changes due to take effect just 12 days from now

Testimony before a Congressional subcommittee yesterday on impending changes to the Hours of Service (HOS) rules for truck drivers cast some more light on the intentions of the revisions and the difficulty of roadside enforcement of the changes—as well as what may well shape further battles over the rule’s content.

These changes to the rule are slated to go into effect just 12 days from now, barring a court decision on a pending legal challenge:

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06/19/13
NationaLease names vp of dedicated services

Joseph Gallick has been named vice president of dedicated services for NationaLease, an organization of full-service truck leasing companies.

Gallick joins NationaLease from Penske Logistics, where he served as senior vice president of sales since 1999.

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06/19/13
Bergstrom partners with solar energy provider eNow

Bergstrom, makes of the NITE no-idle system, has partnered with eNow, a clean tech solar energy solutions company. As part of the agreement, both companies will market their complimentary products – which are both CARB approved – to the industry in North America and Europe.

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06/19/13
Bosselman opens shops in Tucumcari, NM

Bosselman Boss Truck Shops has opened a location in Tucumcari, NM, at Exit 333 off Interstate 40. The facility is adjacent to a Flying J Travel Plaza. The shop is managed by David Arellano.

The Tucumcari Boss Shop is the second shop to be built from the ground up, the company said, and is the 41st Boss Shop across 22 states.

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06/19/13
Love’s Travel Stop opens in Texas

A new Love’s Travel Stops location has opened in Deer Park, TX, this week. The location is located at Highway 225 and Independence Parkway.

The new location includes a fully stocked travel stop with 70 truck parking spaces, a McDonald’s and Chester’s Chicken restaurant and a Love’s Truck Tire Care Center, all open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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06/19/13
U.S. Bank offers fuel card options

U.S. Bank is offering fleet managers two different fuel card options to suit truck fleet needs.

Both the Over the Road Card and Over the Road Plus Card provide users with nationwide acceptance, robust misuse prevention, enhanced data capture and comprehensive reporting for class 7-8 vehicles. The Over the Road Plus Card adds additional flexibility to manage additional expenditures on a single card via the MasterCard network, U.S. Bank said.

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06/19/13
Wingfoot Commercial Tire Center opens in Oklahoma

Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems, a subsidiary of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., has opened a new facility in Oklahoma City, OK.

The 9,600-sq.-ft. facility offers Goodyear, Dunlop and Kelly brand medium truck tires, Goodyear-authorized retreaded truck tires, 24/7 roadside assistance, wheel refurbishing and truck tire repair and other tire-related services.

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06/19/13
Led astray by GPS

Ah the now-ubiquitous global position system or “GPS” as everyone calls it – a combination of technologies whereby satellites and often cell phone networks pinpoint the location of a vehicle, then inputs said location into a software program in order to ultimately provides drivers with directions; no thumbing of paper maps required.

Yet technology is not so perfect, nor so foolproof, that it never sends folks in the wrong direction to the wrong place from time to time.

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06/18/13
Drivewyze Demo

California-based Drivewyze Inc. demonstrated its new "e-inspection" system recently at the West Friendship weight and inspection station outside Baltimore, MD; a system that will electronically gather and send in real-time vehicle weight, driver CDL, driver HOS, CSA scors and other information to law enforcement personnel so fleets with good records can avoid being pulled over.

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06/18/13
Will fleets acquiesce to “e-inspections”?

So I got to check out this new “e-inspection” system put together by California-based Drivewyze Inc. yesterday at the West Friendship weigh and inspection station outside Baltimore, MD, yesterday – an interesting “cloud computing” platform that allows trucks to electronically send not only vehicle weight information but electronic logbook data and safety history in real-time to enforcement officers, hopefully allowing them to bypass such weigh/inspection sites altogether.

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