American Trucking Associations said the safety recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board emphasize the need for the Obama Administration to accelerate efforts to mandate electronic logging devices in commercial trucks and to improve its Compliance, Safety, Accountability fleet safety monitoring and measurement system.
Increases in off-lease, retired-rental and repossessed vehicles entering the market are dampening used-vehicles prices, auction company Manheim’s chief economist said, and the trend will continue into 2014.
Honda has announced it is voluntarily recalling more than 344,000 Odyssey minivans to correct a problem with the vehicles’ stability control software.
Chrysler is recalling 91,559 vehicles 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokees — specifically, those vehicles manufactured between January 8, 2013 and August 20, 2013.
As a result of a lawsuit brought by the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association and the Automotive Refrigeration Products Institute, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that will permit R-1234yf to be sold to consumers so that they can recharge their vehicle air conditioning systems.
