Last month, autonomous truck upstart Starsky Robotics became the first player in the self-driving truck game to drive in fully autonomous mode on a public road without a person in the cab. A remote driver more than 100 miles from small country road near
The Georgia Department of Transportation is currently in the planning stages for trucks-only lanes south of Atlanta on I-75, which the state says are intended to reduce freight congestion around the city. The proposed lanes would allow trucks and other commercial vehicles to travel in barrier-separated lanes from four-wheel traffic. The preliminary proposal has the lanes going […]
Action in four trucking-related crimes has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General and the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, including drug testing fraud, illegal transport of hazardous materials, a driver imprisoned following a fatal crash and a former DOT employee sentenced for bank fraud.
Not much beyond what has previously been reported here is known about Tesla’s electric Semi, but company founder CEO Elon Musk certainly has high hopes for truck. During the company’s earnings call this week, Musk told analysts he expects to sell 100,000 units or more annually by 2022.
Though the U.S. DOT required nearly all truckers who keep records of duty status to switch to an ELD by December 18, there’s somewhat of a soft enforcement period ongoing until April 1, the date established by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance for when out-of-service orders for non-compliance will begin being issued.
Over the year and a half, there has been a severe rash of high end automobile cargo thefts in the Atlanta area. More than 10 cargo theft claims have been filed for losses occurring within the 285 Perimeter around Atlanta. The majority of the thefts are concentrated in the southwest suburbs around the airport (Union […]
Speaking as part of the analysis firm’s “State of Freight†series of webinars, FTR Transportation Intelligence Vice President of Research Avery Vise outlined a series of marketplace conditions that point to market pressure to increase driver wages. The spot freight market began to turn toward the positive in terms of rate growth about a year ago, Vise […]
Join us at the 2018 Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference, taking place at the Pasea Hotel, Huntington Beach, California on March 13th -15th 2018. As a member of the AHAA you will receive 15% discount on the delegate fee – , alternatively use the code AHAA on the registration page. Last year’s event attracted over 300 delegates […]
California has a reputation for passing controversial laws that are later adopted by other states and the federal government. Recent changes to its labor laws may be no exception. The laws created new administrative headaches and legal risks for California-based fleets with intrastate operations. And these challenges could spill beyond its borders.
