Month: June 2021

An August 2020 report from AAA found that over the course of 4,000 miles of real-world driving, vehicles equipped with active driving assistance systems experienced a system anomaly every eight miles, on average. Photo courtesy of AAA.  Entities as diverse as General Motors, Tesla, Lyft, Navistar, BorgWarner, Denso, First Transit, and Nuro will soon begin

Currently, drivers undergoing an in-station inspection need to go through manual steps on an ELD to transfer their logs to the inspection site’s computer, including entering the officer’s inspector code. Graphic: Drivewyze  In a move to improve speed, efficiency and accuracy at weigh station inspection sites, Drivewyze has announced open enrollment for automated electronic e-Inspections

A joint venture between Cummins and Rush Enterprises will produce Cummins-branded natural gas fuel delivery systems for the commercial vehicle market in North America. Photo: Cummins Cummins has signed a letter of intent to acquire a 50% equity interest in Momentum Fuel Technologies from Rush Enterprises. The acquistion will create a joint venture between Rush

PhaseZero’s CxCommerce is a software-as-a-service platform designed to connect distributors with customers, suppliers and manufacturers. Graphic: PhaseZero HDA Truck Pride has partnered with PhaseZero to bring digital commerce solutions to their distributor members. PhaseZero’s CxCommerce is a software-as-a-service platform designed to connect distributors with customers, suppliers and manufacturers; deliver real-time visibility to inventory across all

The California Trucking Association plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its case against the state’s new worker classification law. File Photo: California Trucking Association UPDATE: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted California Trucking Association’s (CTA) request for a stay of the AB5 mandate to allow CTA

Trucksafe Consulting is an educational DOT compliance firm focused on modernizing regulatory consulting and training for carriers and drivers. Photo: Trucksafe Consulting Trucksafe Consulting founders Brandon Wiseman and Jerad Childress, who have nearly 20 years of combined experience working with some of the nation’s largest motor carriers on legal and compliance issues, aim to bring approachable,

Corporate safety messaging should include frequent seat belt reminders, says CalAmp’s VP of Product Line Management Kinana Hussain. File Photo: Volvo Fleet safety is a hot topic––for good reason. For fleet managers, accidents can turn into million-dollar losses that have the potential to threaten their organization’s bottom line and permanently damage its reputation. On the other hand,

The latest data on traffic congestion suggests that the average cost to the trucking industry due to the closure of the I-40 Hernando de Soto Bridge has reduced from an estimated $2.4 million to $936,000 a day. Photo: Tennessee DOT Since the I-40 Hernando de Soto Bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee closed on May 11,

Driver costs, equipment costs, insurance costs, travel and food costs may have longer-term legs of reducing the purchasing power of your budget. Source: Truckstop.com, FTR, company reports We’re hearing the word “inflation” a lot these days, a term we haven’t used much in the economic world for some time — decades, in fact. I’m not talking

The COVID pandemic forced an industry shift. The trucking and logistics industries will continue to look to technology adoption such as payment platforms to meet new safety and cost demands. Graphic: Gettyimages.com/KrizzDaPaul Even before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the use of checks and cash in the logistics space was already beginning to

FTR compared the median annual wage for heavy truck drivers in each state with the maximum unemployment benefit in each state as compiled by job placement firm ZipRecruiter. Graph: FTR This summer, 22 states are opting out early from most or all of the additional federal unemployment benefits put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. With

Plus, which just went public, plans to begin mass production of an autonomous driving solution, PlusDrive, starting this year with China truck maker FAW. Photo: Plus Southeast Asia seems to be a hot spot for autonomous truck technology. Plus, which just went public, plans to begin mass production of an autonomous driving solution, PlusDrive, starting

The House rolled a fund-transfer provision into the legislation. If that addition remains intact, the final bill would call for a $148 billion transfer from the U.S. Treasury’s general fund that would put $109 billion into the highway account. Photo: Public Domain In what’s become something of a tradition in Washington, rather than rolling up