The humble city curb is now coveted real estate, and it’s making mobility increasingly difficult. Cities are turning to curb management concepts that allow fleets to dynamically guarantee parking for a fee.
October 13, 2020
The infusion of $350 million will accelerate development of fully electric options and a move into Classes 7 and 8.
September 27, 2020
As the new technology hype machine works in overdrive, it’s time to take a deep breath and concentrate on product releases that we can experience for ourselves and drive. Remember those?
September 15, 2020
Manufacturers are partnering with telematics providers to allow access to data from OEMs’ factory-installed modems. Meanwhile, Ford has introduced its own telematics system that takes advantage of its factory modem to maximize the depth and breadth of that data for fleets.
September 1, 2020
Waymo is hiring Class A Drivers to monitor autonomous systems during driverless truck tests out of its new Dallas facility.
August 25, 2020
The middle mile in the supply chain is ripe for efficiency gains, while its repeatable routes make it a fit for early autonomous transportation adoption. Gatik’s Sam Saad explains when, how, and why.
August 4, 2020
While agnostic on deployment models and vague on timelines for deployment, Waymo is clear — its end goal is to be a technology provider, not a truck manufacturer or fleet owner.
July 14, 2020
While the Endurance launch event offered more big-picture proclamations than actual truck specs, Lordstown CEO Steve Burns pointed out one reason why an all-electric pickup will be so tantalizing for fleets.
June 26, 2020
Lordstown Motor Corp.’s CEO Steve Burns said preorders from commercial and fleet customers for the all-electric Endurance pickup exceed the company’s production capacity of 20,000 units for 2021.
June 25, 2020
Ford’s electric F-150 is due by mid-2022. Is this a realistic assessment of the electrification timeline, or is Ford late to the game?
June 23, 2020
When this boutique spirits distillery began production and distribution of sanitizer, the company needed to reorganize its routing from a few deliveries a week to over a hundred a day.
May 21, 2020
CARB’s new targets may be unrealistic, but will they propel the electrification market? Also: Tesla releases Autopilot crash data; autonomous start up attacks the middle mile.
May 12, 2020
The autonomous vehicle is intended for fixed, repeatable routes between distribution centers and stores, which reduces autonomous travel’s problematic “edge cases.”
May 7, 2020
Vocational and business fleet drivers don’t get the attention that truckers do. Yet they too are on the front lines, and their jobs often bring them into uncontrolled environments every day.
May 5, 2020
These findings were gathered from the April 7 webinar “Navigating the CARES Act for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses with Fleets.”
April 8, 2020