A former DOT chief lays out a four-step plan to put America "back in the transportation business again." Here's Capitol Agenda's look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill.
February 11, 2019Business
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Government, Business
Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testifies on infrastructure investment Feb. 7. (House Transportation & Infrastucture Committee via YouTube)
Former Secretary Ray LaHood’s Roadmap for an Infrastructure Plan
Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testifies on infrastructure investment Feb. 7. (House Transportation & Infrastucture Committee via YouTube)
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Check out the latest podcast episodes of our RoadSigns and LiveOnWeb programs. Episode 2 of our Season Intersession of RoadSigns, "Is Trucking Charging Toward an Electric Reality?" is now available. Check back here often as new content is always being added!
January 3, 2019
Business, Safety, TCA
International Foodservice Distributors Association
Pennsylvania Trucker Quietly Goes About Amassing More Than 2 Million Safe Miles
International Foodservice Distributors Association
Some people talk a good game, but that doesn’t describe Tim Palkovic. Ask the 60-year-old driver for Curtze Food Service what makes him a good truck driver, and he laughs a little as his silver Freightliner rolls down Interstate 90, headed west and home after a night pulling a pair of 28-foot trailers from Erie to Buffalo, N.Y., to Kenmore, N.Y., and back to Erie.
February 11, 2019
Business, Safety, Fuel
Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg News
TransCanada: Keystone Pipeline Likely Source of Oil Spill in Missouri
Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg News
TransCanada Corp. said its Keystone pipeline, which carries Canadian crude to the United States, likely was the source of an oil spill in Missouri that prompted the company to shut a segment of the line.
February 11, 2019
Business, Technology, Top 100
Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News
Walmart Wants to Expand Reach in Online Advertising
Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News
Walmart Inc. is big in almost every way — 4,755 stores, 1.5 million employees and $380 billion in revenue in the United States alone. But one part of the world’s largest retailer remains minuscule. “We have a tiny ad business,” CEO Doug McMillon told investors in October. “It could be bigger.”
February 11, 2019
Business, Technology
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Visits Norway to Address Service Capacity Issues
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News)
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk visited Norway to accelerate a fix to service capacity in a key market for the carmaker after delays and bottlenecks angered customers in Scandinavia’s richest nation.
February 11, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics
Akio Kon/Bloomberg News
Analyst Says Fuel Supply Inadequate for Ocean Shippers to Comply With New Rule
Akio Kon/Bloomberg News
Not enough low-sulfur fuel oil is available to replace the fuels used by marine shippers ahead of a fast-approaching regulation, according to analysis by Wood Mackenzie.
February 11, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel, Logistics, Autonomous, TCA
Quadrobot CEO and Chairman Mike Wang via Detroit Free Press/Tribune Content Agency
Robot Package Delivery Trucks Developed in Detroit Ready for China, US
Quadrobot CEO and Chairman Mike Wang via Detroit Free Press/Tribune Content Agency
Looking like a delegation of toasters from space, a generation of electrically powered, self-driving mail trucks will roll out of a suburban Detroit industrial park later this year. Their mission: Revolutionize mail and package delivery.
February 11, 2019
Business, Logistics
Tech Startup ePallet Raises $3 Million to Fund 2019 Growth
ePallet Inc., a California-based firm that provides technology to enable food shippers and consumers to buy and sell products in pallet-size quantities direct from manufacturers and food processing firms, has said it has raised $3 million in funding.
February 11, 2019
Government, Business, Technology
The Starship Hopper test vehicle sits under construction near Boca Chica, Texas. (Austin Barnard/Bloomberg News)
Elon Musk's SpaceX Launch Site Risks Being Split in Two by Border Wall
The Starship Hopper test vehicle sits under construction near Boca Chica, Texas. (Austin Barnard/Bloomberg News)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a big stake in the battle over border security being waged in Congress: a launchpad on the U.S.-Mexico border that it plans to use for rockets carrying humans around the world and eventually to Mars.
February 8, 2019
Business, Logistics, Top 100
TT file photo
U.S. Xpress Enterprises' Efficiency Moves Pay Off
TT file photo
Efforts by dry van truckload carrier U.S. Xpress Enterprises to boost profits by improving the efficiency of its trucking operations are paying off.
February 8, 2019Pages
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