For TT subscription information, click here . Walter B. McCormick Jr., a Washington lawyer and former general counsel for the Department of Transportation, is the unanimous choice of an American Trucking Associations search committee to become ATA's next president and chief executive officer. The committee's recommendation must be approved by the ATA Executive Committee, which is scheduled to meet Oct. 21 at the association's annual Management Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas. Navistar International unveiled a hybrid electric-diesel truck at its Technology and Engineering Center. The concept vehicle, developed with Lockheed Martin Control Systems, Johnson City, N.Y., uses a diesel engine to power an electric motor.
Additional power comes from lead acid batteries charged by the engine.
An old jibe held that rail management mistakenly thought they were in the railroad business when they were really in the transportation business. For intermodal to grow, they now must learn they're in the logistics business, shippers say. The Office of Motor Carriers has a new policy on using global positioning system records to verify driver logs. Whether this is the right policy remains to be seen. All DOE prices include taxes.