The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has tapped Chris Spear to replace Bill Graves as the federation’s president and chief executive officer. Graves is retiring after more than 13 years at the helm of the organization. Spear currently serves as vice president of government affairs at Hyundai Motor Company and brings to ATA a long history…
The scenario sounds futuristic – a delivery truck rolls into a neighborhood, stops at the curb and a hatch opens on the roof, dispatching a drone that drops a package on the doorstep. This is how companies plan to change the delivery industry: with tiny airborne robots clutching small packages. “We think it’s going to…
Automated vehicles can be the biggest asset in improving the safety of America’s roads, according to Christopher Hart, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, as reported by Transport Topics. In a speech June 30 at the National Press Club, Hart said the following: “An automated 80,000-pound truck will be safer, eventually, than one with…
In his new book “The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream,” Steve Viscelli, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, explains the decline of the trucking industry, which used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States, according to an article on penncurrent.upenn.edu. More than three million…
The trucking industry invests at least $9.5 billion in safety annually according to a landmark report released by American Trucking Associations. “We know this industry prioritizes and invests in improving safety on our nation’s highways,” said ATA Executive Vice President of National Advocacy Dave Osiecki. “With the results of this survey, we now can put…
Scania Trucks and Siemens AG have teamed up with the Swedish government to demonstrate the first electric highway, a two-kilometer stretch of the E16 motorway near Gavle in central Sweden. The Swedish government is touting the demonstration as a path towards fossil-free transportation. Scania is supplying the electrically-powered trucks using conductive technology developed by Siemens….
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) have started testing technology that one day may lead to autonomous military convoys. The two agencies collaborated on a field test on Interstate 69 June 23, testing vehicle-to-vehicle communications that could link the vehicles in a connected convoy…
Trucking and travel plaza leaders recently announced a new highway safety initiative to help professional drivers find available truck parking. Beginning in late summer, truck drivers who need to stop and rest will be able to use a free mobile app called Park My Truck to locate an available space, according to the initiative’s leaders,…
The trucking industry has won a round in an ongoing bout with labor unions over whether truck drivers at the East Coast’s busiest port are employees or independent contractors, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. The New Jersey Assembly had been considering legislation that would have forced port trucking companies to use…
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is applauding the recent House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development’s (THUD) passage of its 2017 transportation spending bill. OOIDA said the bill “provides drivers the operating flexibility needed to safely perform their jobs, avoids controversial proposals involving trucker compensation and ensures federal motor carrier regulations are…
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