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Fall semesters are cranking-up across the nation and students are heading to campus for another year of higher education. Not every student needs to rent a moving truck to get their stuff back to school, but if you’re one of those who do, below are some benefits to making that move in a Penske truck.

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This weekend, the No. 12 Penske Truck Rental Ford Mustang will make another NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) appearance in the Zippo 200 race at Watkins Glen International. Penske Racing Driver Sam Hornish, Jr. will drive the iconic yellow car that will again feature the hashtag: #OneWay4PVA calling attention to Penske Truck Rental’s year-long fundraising effort to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America’s (PVA) Mission: ABLE program.

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Penske Truck Rental has introduced a new suite of moving services for companies seeking to relocate their employees, or to place new hires, within the United States or Canada viawww.employeemoves.com.

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Penske Racing NASCAR driver Sam Hornish Jr., will pilot the No. 12 Penske Truck Rental Ford Mustang in a pair of Nationwide Series races in August, to help Penske Truck Rental support their campaign with the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Hornish will compete on August 3 and August 10 with the Twitter hashtag #OneWay4PVA on the car’s rear bumper.

#OneWay4PVA calls attention to Penske Truck Rental’s year-long fundraising effort to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America and its Mission: ABLE program. The program helps ensure that veterans with disabilities get the care, benefits and job opportunities they’ve earned and deserve.

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Nothing takes away the feeling of accomplishment after painstakingly packing and boxing your belongings up than seeing your Penske truck pull up to your home and realizing that you have no idea how to load your truck. It’s sitting in front of your house or apartment, and you have to act fast! Here are seven tips to help make packing your truck fast and worry free, so you can avoid this stressful situation.

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If you’ve been waiting for a good time to enter the housing market, wait no longer! Now may be a perfect time to sell your home. So what do you need to do to increase your home’s value and ensure the selling process goes smoothly? Our friends atQuicken Loans offer these key tips.

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It's moving season andPenske Truck Rental recently teamed up with the folks at homesessive to produce these moving tips to help you plan the perfect move featuring ideas from Philadelphia designer Jeanine Hays, co-founder of AphroChic.

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Sam Hornish, Jr. will pilot the yellow No. 12 Penske Truck Rental Ford Mustang in this Friday's NASCAR Nationwide series Feed the Children 300 race at the Kentucky Speedway.

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Penske Truck Leasing today announced it has ordered 100 compressed natural gas (CNG) Freightliner Cascadia tractors equipped with Cummins Westport 12-liter engines. The natural gas tractors will be used by Penske’s full-service truck leasing and commercial truck rental customers at various locations across the United States.

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Taking that first step to introducing natural gas vehicles (NGVs) into a company’s truck fleet is by no means an easy decision with myriad dynamics to analyze when taking that next step.

“Natural gas vehicles have a growing place in the transportation industry,” explained Drew Cullen, Penske’s vice president of fuels and telecommunications. “Incorporating these vehicles into a fleet can contribute to sustainability goals because they run on cleaner burning fuel and the support infrastructure from a fueling and maintenance standpoint is growing rapidly.”

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Penske Truck Rental was one of the sponsors of Support Military Spouses’Shoebox for Military Spouses event May 9 at the Crown Center Arena, Fayetteville, N.C. Other sponsors of the event included Walmart and Chick-fil-A. More than 1,200 military spouses in the Fayetteville area received shoeboxes filled with letters of encouragement written by children and adults, and gift items such as shower gels, lotions, and jewelry.

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Penske Truck Rental is proud to announce a new fundraising effort to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America’sMission: ABLE campaign – to ensure that veterans with disabilities get the care, benefits and job opportunities they’ve earned and deserve.

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Penske Racing driver Joey Logano will pilot the No. 22Penske Truck Rental Ford Mustang in the VFW Sport Clip Helps a Hero 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Friday.

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Lawmakers at both the federal and state level are saying they will consider raising fuel taxes to fund highway infrastructure projects. Many see the fuel tax, which hasn’t been increased since 1993, as the most viable way to increase revenues for highway infrastructure projects.

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Very soon, thousands of college students will be donning caps and gowns, grabbing their diplomas and marching into the “real world.” So, what will that world look like? A new infographic from SpareFoot gives a glimpse into that world.Here are just a few nuggets of information in the infographic:

  • 51 percent of college graduates plan to move to a new apartment after school.
  • Among college graduates who are moving, almost three-fourths are relocating away from their college town.
  • 80 percent of college graduates would relocate to a city where they can find a job rather than to their favorite city.

A lot of this year’s college graduates actually will be moving back home, a new survey by Accenture found. One-third of 2013 graduates plan to live at home after graduation, while 44 percent of 2011 and 2012 college grads live at home now, the survey showed.

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Penske Truck Leasing has established a scholarship program through the Universal Technical Institute (UTI) Foundation. ThePenske Truck Leasing Diesel Excellence Scholarship is being established through a gift of $100,000 to the UTI Foundation and is intended for students attending any of the Universal Technical Institute’s eight campuses across the country that offer an auto diesel-training program.

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Is your home bigger or smaller than the average for your area? A new infographic from Quicken Loans will help you find out.

Did you know that there are more than 76 million owner-occupied homes in the U.S.? Now you do.

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Statistics show that drivers spend more than half their time texting, talking on the phone, conversing with passengers or engaging in other activities instead of doing what they should be: giving their full attention to driving.

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