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How Will Rising Fuel Prices Affect Transportation?(0)

June 27, 2011

This guest post is provided by Michael Koploy. Koploy, an ERP Analyst at Software Advice, provides consumers with reviews and comparisons of transportation management software for Software Advice. The original post on this topic can be found here. Businesses are successfully run on efficient transportation, and efficient transportation requires cheap gasoline to survive. When fuel [...]

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Meeting Stricter Policy Through Sustainability

Last year, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a groundbreaking announcement about their efforts to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for heavy trucks and buses. As Washington tightens standards, the impact of reducing weight, a largely uncharted area with a great potential for growth and [...]

Earth Day — Celebrate Your Progress toward Improving the Environment

On Earth Day, it seems quite appropriate to reflect on Con-way’s sustainability efforts and how we fit into the goals (and the politics) of today’s environmental movement. As a framework, we must acknowledge that our primary business is dependent on petroleum and will be for quite some time. As a result, we are not going [...]

Meeting of the Minds at the Swedish Embassy Highlights Industry’s Progress and Future Challenges

Last month, American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Volvo Trucks North America, part of the Volvo Group based in Gothenburg, Sweden, co-sponsored an event at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. “The Future of Freight Transportation” was attended by more than 100 transportation executives and other stakeholders and served as a timely forum to discuss important [...]


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