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.
Scania May Name VW’s Winterkorn Chairman
Swedish truck maker Scania AB’s Chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder may step down from his position this week, to be replaced by Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, Bloomberg reported Monday.
March 5, 2007More Fleets Enter China Offering Trucking, Logistics
Schneider National Inc., which recently received a license to operate as a domestic carrier in China, is at the leading edge of a growing Asian investment wave by U.S. fleets, joining both truckload and less-than-truckload companies that have partnerships or logistics operations there.
December Nafta Surface Trade Dips 0.1%, DOT Says
Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico dipped 0.1% in December from the same month a year earlier, though both truck and rail numbers rose, the Department of Transportation said.
March 1, 2007Celadon Buys Virginia Trucking Company Warrior Xpress
Truckload carrier Celadon Group said Wednesday that one of its subsidiaries purchased the truckload business and tractors and trailers of Warrior Xpress for about $8.3 million.
February 28, 2007Editorial: Testing Longer, Heavier Trucks
The new chairman of the pivotal House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. James Oberstar, said he would support a pilot program to test the effects that raising truck size and weight limits would have on the nation’s highways.
February 28, 2007Transportation Stocks Take Hit in Market Tumble
Transportation stocks, including airlines, trucking companies and railroads, were among the hardest hit in Tuesday’s stock market tumble, the Associated Press reported.
February 28, 2007Oberstar Suggests Size Test
WASHINGTON — Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), a key transportation legislator and a longtime opponent of increasing truck sizes and weights, told Transport Topics he would now support a pilot study of larger vehicles on U.S. highways.
Trucking: Don’t Include CBs in Laws Banning Cellphones
Trucking executives said efforts to ban the use of cellular phones from the nation’s highways would receive industry support as long as state laws do not also ban two-way radios and satellite communication devices.
Letter to the Editor: Speed Limiters
On Oct. 20, American Trucking Associations, in conjunction with “Road Safe America,” a group of nine trucking companies, submitted a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
February 28, 2007Diesel Fuel Shortage Reported in Ontario
The Ontario Trucking Association said Tuesday that an apparent diesel fuel shortage in the province was causing concern to truckers.
February 27, 2007