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Autonomous technologies now drive significant change in trucking and freight transportation. Transport Topics autonomous coverage provides a comprehensive look at that change. It provides the latest details on deployment concepts such as advanced driver-assist systems, transfer hubs, teleoperations, platooning and off-road automation and latest analysis of the companies who are manufacturing, adopting and investing in these technologies. Readers can follow the impact such deployment has on everything from policy and infrastructure initiatives to highway congestion, fuel consumption, fleet management, driver management and business investment.

Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous

HOS Restart Suspension May Stay Through February

The hours-of-service restart rules for truck drivers likely will remain suspended through February, a few months longer than expected.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
November 23, 2015
Government, Business, Safety, Autonomous

FMCSA Shuts Down Ohio Trucking Company

Garfield Trucking of Jefferson, Ohio, has been shut down, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Nov. 19.

David Elfin | Staff Reporter
November 19, 2015
Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous

Atlanta Tops ATRI List of Worst Truck Choke Points

The nation’s worst truck bottleneck is located in Atlanta, where a five-level stack interchange known as “Spaghetti Junction” joins Interstates 285 and 85 north, according to a new American Transportation Research Institute truck congestion survey.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
November 18, 2015
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous

Manufacturers Highlight Freight, Trucking Productivity While Urging Passage of Highway Bill

The National Association of Manufacturers is urging transportation leaders to quickly advance a multiyear highway reauthorization bill that boosts investments in freight transportation, and trucking productivity.

November 17, 2015
Government, Business, Safety, Autonomous

Driver Coercion Final Rule Clears OMB; ELD Rule Expected Nov. 30

A final federal rule that would prohibit carriers, shippers and brokers from coercing truck drivers to violate safety regulations cleared review by the White House Office of Management and Budget last week and is projected to be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 23.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
November 16, 2015
Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous

Analysts Growing Cautious on 2016 Trucking Outlook

Freight industry experts are increasingly growing cautious about 2016, based on the expected continuation of recent sluggish market conditions as well as other factors.

Rip Watson | Special to Transport Topics
November 16, 2015
Business, Safety, Autonomous

Truck Driver Arthur Cage Achieves 6 Million Safe Miles

At a glance, no one would confuse YRC Freight driver Arthur Cage with Lee Majors, star of the 1970s television series “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

Rip Watson | Special to Transport Topics
November 16, 2015
Business, Safety, Government, Autonomous

Removing Non-Fault Crashes Helps CSA Scores, ATRI Says

A new research report lends support to claims by many in the trucking industry that federal regulators should remove nonpreventable crashes from carriers’ Compliance, Safety, Accountability program records.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
November 16, 2015
Business, Safety, Government, Autonomous

ATA, Transportation Groups Want More Funding in Highway Bill

American Trucking Associations joined 39 transportation groups this week in calling on congressional transportation leaders to boost federal investments for infrastructure projects in a multiyear highway bill.

November 12, 2015
Business, Government, Autonomous

N.Y. Thruway Tolls Won’t Rise in 2016, but Trucking Fears Future Increases

New York drivers won’t pay more to use the state’s Thruway in 2016, the sixth straight year without an increase.

David Elfin | Staff Reporter
November 10, 2015