Nearly all companies that supply mobile fleet management systems have moved to the Android platform within the last four years. Some offer it as an option; for others it is their only option.
Nearly all companies that supply mobile fleet management systems have moved to the Android platform within the last four years. Some offer it as an option; for others it is their only option.
The Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division has issued a warning to Arizona-licensed operators over fraudulent websites offering services such as Arizona driver licenses, IDs and vehicle titles and registration. ADOT says the fraudulent websites appear in searches with keywords such as DMV or MVD.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas registered the hottest last week for outbound truckload rates, averaging $2.39, $2.46, $2.45 and $2.49, respectively. Â The heat map here is based on averages of outbound truckload rates
In May, when Freightliner pulled the curtain back on its new Inspiration autonomous truck model, the company promised CDL-holding journalists the opportunity to get a Nevada autonomous truck endorsement in the fall.Â
The current stay of enforcement of the 2013-implemented rules governing truckers’ use of a 34-hour hours-of-service restart could be removed as soon as Sept. 30, 2015, according to the text of the law that temporarily suspended the rules.Â
XPO Logistics is set to acquire Con-way Inc., one of the country’s largest trucking companies, XPO announced Wednesday.  The $3 billion deal has been agreed to under terms that XPO will launch a tender offer for all of Con-way’s outstanding shares at a cash price of $47.60 per share.
The latest highway funding stopgap measure has just six weeks until its expiration, Oct. 29. Coming off its annual August break, Congress appeared poised to tackle a long-term bill, with the Senate passing a six-year bill before clocking out early last month.Â
Mastering an unsynchronized heavy-duty manual transmission is as much an art as a science. Old-school drivers say they simply don’t feel in complete control of a truck unless it has a manual gearbox.Â
A driver shortage, now estimated at 40,000, is causing motor carriers to fine-tune their strategies to retain drivers. Â Besides offering better pay packages, benefits and incentives, fleets are looking to influence the human factors that cause and contribute to turnover.