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Social Media for Trucking Industry Professionals

FleetOwner.com offers a variety of social media and social networking applications to help you connect with others within the commercial trucking industry.

Designed for trucking industry professionals, including fleet managers/owners, long-haul truckers, owner/operators, the Social Media Newsroom summarizes all of these services and how to utilize them.

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Obama impact on trucking industry

Obama takes office, plans massive economic, environmental changes (Fleet Owner)

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States today, and the transportation industry waits to see the impact of the economic and environmental plans the new President has promised to implement.

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Highway safety analysis

Why Highway Watch failed (Fleet Owner)

According to a government report, the American Trucking Assns.’ (ATA) recently discontinued Highway Watch program was able to reach participant enrollment targets, yet received too few calls to warrant its continuation.

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Trucking industry layoffs keep coming

Trucking industry layoffs keep coming (Fleet Owner)

Both motor carriers and trucking’ suppliers cut jobs during 2008 to help streamline operations as a weak marketplace cut deeply into profits. However, the number of layoffs has climbed still higher over the last few weeks.

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Trucking Photos

Check out Bulk Transporter's new and improved photo gallery page, featuring trucking images from some of its magazine features and news article.

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Top Trucking Stories 2008

Fleet Owner is counting down the top trucking stories of 2008 on its website.

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Latest Trucking Industry Headlines

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