China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks, according to a piece in technologyreview.com. A number of companies are developing automation technologies that promise to lower costs, reduce accidents, and improve overall efficiency for the trucking industry by allowing drivers to make longer trips that include periods of…
The Trump administration looks to offer the trucking business some badly needed road and infrastructure projects, but the industry will have to pay for the improvements, either through higher fuel taxes or tolls according to an article in trucks.com. That’s the assessment of analysts at FTR Transportation Intelligence, an industry research firm. Trump’s strong commitment…
Big trucking companies have spent the second half of the year shrinking their fleets in hopes of changing an imbalance between the supply of rigs on the road and tepid shipping demand that has flattened industry earnings, according to the Wall Street Journal. They will learn in the coming weeks, as retailers stock up at…
With its recent acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto, Uber Technologies is plotting its entry into the long-haul trucking business, aiming to establish itself as a freight hauler and a technology partner for the industry, according to a Reuters article published in Fortune. Otto plans to expand its fleet of trucks from six to about…
The California Community College’s Chancellor’s Office made the move to grant Long Beach City College a $511,098 grant to continue its lauded Harbor Driver Training Program. The new grant was a welcome move, according to an LBCC release, as the program has been grant-funded since its 2013 inception and funding for the current round of…
The head of the American Trucking Association (ATA) has lobbed a new grenade at Gov. Gina Raimondo’s truck-toll law, describing it as an unacceptable effort to force his industry to underwrite the cost of repairing Rhode Island bridges, according to a WPRI television report. “We don’t know if this program is legal, but it is…
The release of the final version of California’s Sustainable Freight Action Plan has been met with harsh criticism by two groups representing Golden State’s truck-fleet operators, according to a report in HDT Truckinginfo.com. According to the California Air Resources Board, the revised document is similar to the draft issued back in May. However, CARB claims…
Randolph, New Jersey-based Farren International, a premier total logistics provider since 1959, has announced its merger with EZE Trucking out of Houston, Texas. This new partnership also includes the EZE affiliates Patterson Freight and Rig Runners Inc. With this merger Farren, well known for its quality services in the Northeast, will now have locations and…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has established the Build America Bureau, which will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit and grant opportunities while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring. “The Build…
Money is lending credibility to a new crop of Uber-like trucking startups, with two large investment firms recently spending millions of dollars to fund the startups Transfix and CargoX, according to an article in truckinginfo.com. Transfix, a provider of on-demand trucking, raised $22 million in Series B funding led by an investment from New Enterprise…
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