Autonomous
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.
Rising Transport Costs Push Shippers to Reshape Packaging
Whether the product is laundry detergent or basketballs or almost anything else, changing the way things are packaged to make the most out of a trailer’s space is introducing a little-noticed structural change to the trucking industry.
August 25, 2008Two Carriers to Join Port of L.A.’s Clean Trucks Program
Two national truckload carriers have signed letters of intent to participate in the port of Los Angeles’ Clean Trucks Plan, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
August 22, 2008Volvo, Mack to Streamline U.S. Operations
Affiliated truck makers Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America said Thursday they will concentrate each company’s manufacturing operations into a single U.S. location and will move Mack’s headquarters from Allentown, Pa., to Greensboro, N.C.
August 14, 2008ATA Urges Congressional Action on Drug, Alcohol Testing
American Trucking Associations Wednesday called on Congress to help the trucking industry to improve highway safety by supporting efforts to enhance drug and alcohol testing for the nation’s 3.4 million truck drivers.
May 21, 2008ATA Chairman Kuntz Testifies at Senate Hearing
WASHINGTON — American Trucking Associations Chairman Ray Kuntz asked a Senate committee Wednesday to make fundamental changes to federal surface transportation programs in order to allow the trucking industry to move freight more efficiently.
April 16, 2008Editorial: Technological Solutions
Little wonder that fuel efficiency was a major focus of equipment and service vendors exhibiting at the Mid-America Trucking Show last week.
March 31, 2008UAW Begins Strike at Volvo’s Va. Truck Plant
Volvo Trucks North America said Friday it failed to reach agreement with the United Auto Workers union on a labor contract that expired Thursday, and about 2,600 UAW members at its manufacturing plant in Virginia went on strike there Friday.
February 1, 2008Panel Recommends NYC Congestion-Fee Plan
The commission in charge of creating congestion-fee plan for New York City voted Thursday to approve a scaled-down version of an original proposal, but the plan would still charge cars and most trucks fees to enter the central part of Manhattan, the Associated Press reported.
February 1, 2008N.C. Court Rules for Trucking Company in Dispute Over Weight Limit Fines
A judge in North Carolina recently ruled in favor of a trucking company that sued the state for what it said were excessive fines assessed for minor weight limit permit violations.
January 30, 2008ArvinMeritor Reports 1Q Loss
Trucking components maker ArvinMeritor Inc. Tuesday reported a $12 million, or 17 cents a share for its fiscal first quarter, compared with a profit of $7 million, or 10 cents a share, in the previous first quarter.
January 29, 2008