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The company uDrove LLC has released a software program that it said will handle all of the trucking industry’s compliance management needs with a smart phone.

“Harnessing the power, accessibility and portability of a smart phone, including BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, uDrove replaces piles of in-cab paperwork with a simple, easy-to-use phone application,” the company said in a Feb. 1 statement

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Truckload carrier CRST Malone has introduced a new lease purchase program as well as a sign-on bonus offer of up to $1,000 through mid-March for new owner-operators.

“In our new lease purchase plan, payments can be as low as $200 per week with $0 down for trucks that are approximately three years old,” said Sherri Cook, CRST Malone director of recruiting. “Lease purchase drivers also receive 100 percent of fuel surcharge and 75 percent of gross line haul average.”

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The World’s Largest Truck Convoy is a one-day International celebration happening across the country and into Canada, that helps raise money for Special Olympics. This year’s Truck Convoy is a project of the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

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DENTON, Texas   (August 31, 2009) – Peterbilt Motors Company announced that the company is taking immediate orders for the production of its vocational and aerodynamic vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas (NG). The Model 365 and Model 384 will be offered with the Cummins Westport ISL G and built at Peterbilt’s truck manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas.

Read entire press release at Peterbilt.com

The trucking industry’s main trade group said Wednesday a key index measuring U.S. trucking shipments rose by 2.1 percent last month, but a top economist warned that the industry — and the broader economy — isn’t out of the woods yet.

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