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ConocoPhillips Lubricants launches liquid titanium heavy-duty engine oil.

Are hostile elements threatening your engines? Fight back with Guardol ECT with Liquid Titanium, a premium, industry-leading API CJ-4 heavy-duty engine oil - now enhanced with liquid-titanium-additive technology for proven antiwear protection and improved resistance to corrosion and oxidation. Exclusively from ConocoPhillips Lubricants. www.conocophillipslubricants.com/titanium

Top of the News
Ready to go when the recession ends
By Justin Carretta, online news editor
 UPS and FedEx are among the most prepared to thrive once the economic downturn begins to subside because they have focused on increasing fuel efficiency for several years, according to Frost & Sullivan senior industry analyst Sandeep Kar.



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Number-one Bottled Water Company has Reduced Idle Time by 41 Percent Thanks to Cadec’s Advanced Fleet Management Software.

Read how this industry leader is using Cadec’s advanced fleet management software and On-Board Computers in its entire fleet of 40 trucks for idle tracking, GPS management and paperless logging capabilities. With the use of Cadec's solutions “Driver behavior started to change almost immediately.” Read the case study at www.cadec.com/polandspring

Today's Headlines
LaHood fields stimulus team
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has created a team at the Department of Transportation (DOT) aimed at ensuring President Obama’s proposed economic-recovery funding is made available for transportation infrastructure projects -- and that project spending is monitored and transparent.



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Finally, an affordable diesel fuel management system for under $2500.

With ProFlow’s Cube 70 MC Diesel Fuel Dispenser, you can monitor and control your diesel fuel inventory, prevent diesel theft and have accountability of your diesel usage. Data can be downloaded to a PC. [Read more]

Tires
Goodyear rolls out new tires
Goodyear has introduced several new drive tires for commercial trucking applications..



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Safety
Con-way tests DOT crash-warning system
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and Con-way Freight have begun field testing of an integrated crash warning system installed on Con-way’s trucks.
Products
Racor releases air dryer
The Racor division of Parker Hannifin Corp. has announced the new Racor/Nabtesco compressed air dryer system, which it said provides vapor-free compressed air to a vehicle’s air-brake system reservoir.
Trucking Around the World
Australia plans $500 million in infrastructure planning as part of stimulus package
The Government's stimulus package will reach into every corner of the country to create jobs by injecting $890 million to build libraries and town halls, fix accident black spots and repair regional roads. The major element in the infrastructure program is a $500 million nation-building program to fund councils unable to afford to build community and sports centres....
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