ATA Truck Tonnage Falls in February
The 4.5% drop in the American Trucking Associations' tonnage numbers was largely due to severe winter weather during February.
The 4.5% drop in the American Trucking Associations' tonnage numbers was largely due to severe winter weather during February.
The Women In Trucking Association recognized 73 individuals in its fourth annual list of Top Women to Watch in Transportation.
The third-party system to certify electronic logging devices for the Canadian market is entering high gear, says a Canadian trucking association, but it is “strongly encouraging” carriers to meet with ELD vendors ahead of the June 12 deadline.
ConMet’s PreSet Plus SmartHub, a connected health monitoring system built into a hub assembly, will be added to the Road Ready telematics interface.
The Traton Group (which is in the process of buying Navistar) announced it is investing $1.9 billion in research and development of e-mobility by 2025, and cutting its investment in traditional drivetrains.
Peterbilt has added an EV Operating Cost Calculator to its website to help prospective electric vehicle customers compare electric trucks to conventional models.
Bosch research suggests that advanced driver assistance systems that help keep vehicles in their lane may significantly reduce the costs of accidents influenced by heavy trucks.
The new acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made headlines recently with comments about how autonomous truck technology would affect truck-driving jobs. A former DOT official, currently with an autonomous-tech company, says the jobs of current truckers are not likely to be threatened. Learn why.
ICYMI: A roundup of trucking industry news from ACEA, Gebrüder Weiss, Daimler, Volvo, Cummins, Scania, FEV and more.
Truckload freight pricing rose and national average load-to-truck ratios for dry van and refrigerated freight hit record highs in February.
SambaSafety's online training will be added to SambaSafety's continuous driver monitoring solution, Qorta, with a new acquisition.
In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed to withdraw a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor.
Lightning eMotors expects to produce 100 purpose-built Electric Transits this year, with a projection of up to 3,000 units by 2023.
XPO Logistics announced GXO Logistics, the name of the company’s logistics business it plans to spin-off as an independent public company.
Mack and Volvo customers can now make unlimited over-the-air parameter updates from virtually anywhere, letting them easily make changes to improve efficiency and productivity for various geographies and operating conditions.
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