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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.

Government, Business, Safety, Autonomous

N.Y. City Not Ticketing Trucks, Pending Appeal on Decals

New York City recently announced that it is not enforcing its truck decal requirement and has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to reconsider a ruling that the city cannot require truckers to have such identification.

Michele Fuetsch | Staff Reporter
July 5, 2011

TT Podcasts: RoadSigns

Volvo's Chayene de Souza and Magnus Gustafson discuss how new, connected trucks can boost business, enhance safety practices, and reinforce preventative maintenance plans.

Government, Business, Safety, Autonomous

Truck Groups Defend La.’s Anti-Indemnification Law

American Trucking Associations and the Louisiana Motor Transport Association have filed a brief supporting Louisiana’s anti-indemnification law against a lawsuit that calls it unconstitutional.

Timothy Cama | Staff Reporter
July 5, 2011
Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous

ATA, Port of Los Angeles Continue Court Fight Over Classification of Independent Truckers

If an appeals court agrees with a lower court judge who backed the Port of Los Angeles’ argument that it is a business, then all drayage truck drivers will be required to be employees of licensed motor carriers.

June 20, 2011
Business, Safety, Government, Autonomous

NAFC, ITLC Set Meeting Agendas for Phoenix Meeting

Finance and information technology trucking executives are set to meet this week in Phoenix, as American Trucking Associations embarks on a campaign to reinvigorate some of its councils that had to retrench during the recession.

June 20, 2011
Business, Fuel, Logistics, Government, Autonomous

CTA Fuel Expert Challenges Biodiesel Claims

An expert hired by the Canadian Trucking Alliance is disputing claims made by the Canadian renewable fuels industry that diesel fuel buyers would save dramatically if the federal government proceeds with a proposed biodiesel mandate on July 1.

June 13, 2011
Business, Safety, Government, Logistics, Autonomous

PenserSC, ICS Logistics Sign Transportation Contract

Third-party logistics firms PenserSC and ICS Logistics said they have agreed to a trucking and transportation services contract.

June 10, 2011
Business, Safety, Government, Autonomous

TTNews.com to Be Closed Monday for Memorial Day

Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. Please check back on Tuesday, May 31, for the latest trucking and freight transportation news.

May 27, 2011
Business, Safety, Autonomous

Wickham Receives Earl Dove Award; ATA Cites Vision, Leadership of ATRI

American Trucking Associations paid tribute on May 15 to longtime trucking executive Michael Wickham with its highest award.

May 23, 2011
Government, Business, Safety, Equipment, Autonomous

Truck Tolls Will Increase to $4 Per Axle on Bridges Between Pennsylvania and N.J.

Truckers crossing the northern Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as of July 1.

May 23, 2011
Business, Safety, Autonomous

Volvo’s April North American Deliveries More Than Double

Volvo AB’s North American truck deliveries more than doubled in April from a year ago, while worldwide sales heavy-duty sales improved 77% the company said Tuesday.

May 17, 2011