Delivery

Connecticut imposed a new per-mile truck tax on Class 8 through Class 13 motor vehicles, effective Jan. 1, 2023. The Connecticut Business & Industry Association reports that the Department of Revenue Services recently issued guidance for the highway user fee, enacted by the legislature in 2021, to assist trucking companies with compliance. “According to the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis, the tax is ...

Jeff Suntup received a patent for Putnus, equipment that can be installed in the back of a cargo or pickup truck for delivering small amounts of heating oil and other fuels. The resident of New London, Connecticut, and former operator of Bernie’s Fuel Oil Co. Inc. and Anytime Oil LLC, received the patent in April for “Apparatus for Dispensing Small ...

Boston Steel Tank Trucks are built in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The company’s 2,700-gallon tank is described in a video that Boston Steel’s parent company, Tremcar, based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richlieu, Quebec, Canada, posted on YouTube. See the video at: https://youtu.be/HbFN8irvP4c. For more information visit www.tremcar.com.

The first Global Tank Truck Conference (www.GlobalTankTruckConference.com), sponsored by Amthor International, will be held Oct. 6-8 at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center in Greensboro, NC.  The theme of the GTTC 2016 conference is Diversification in a Changing Economy.  The purpose of the event is to bring leaders, business owners, managers and entrepreneurs in the refined fuel, propane, portable restroom, ...

A new center is the site of training classes and research into fuel oil and equipment By Stephen Bennett The NORA Research & Education Center opened in Plainview, N.Y., where research activities will be under the direction of Dr. Tom Butcher, and education programs will be under the direction of John Levey. Established by NORA in conjunction with the New ...

Scully Signal Company, a fluid handling products manufacturing company has announced the appointment of Eric Kirleis as CEO. Kirleis previously worked at Gefran Corporation, a family owned worldwide industrial sensor and controls manufacturing company in charge of their North American Division. While at Gefran, he had full profit and loss responsibilities for the division and was instrumental in numerous business ...

SkyBitz®, a commercial telematics and a wholly owned subsidiary of Telular Corporation, announces that SMARTLogix, a leading provider of petroleum management, inventory and transportation logistics solutions, is now SkyBitz Petroleum Logistics. SMARTLogix, headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, was acquired by SkyBitz in October of 2015. “We are excited to add SMARTLogix as the SkyBitz Petroleum Logistics platform. Through the ...

Tremcar Inc. has opened several service centers across Canada and the USA. Tremcar offers tank services, parts and pieces, certification and maintenance for all tank brands. The company also has a considerable leasing and used tank fleet inventory in which not all tanks are Tremcar. Considering the company takes trade-ins, Tremcar stated it does not discriminate the tank origin. To better ...

Some software suppliers now issue smaller, more frequent system updates.

A mini-delivery system in the bed of a pickup truck can make an oil dealer nimble and produce fat profit margins on small amounts delivered in the dead of night, says an entrepreneur.