10 Oct Lawmakers Seek Industry Input on Infrastructure Plan Missouri’s chief of transportation will join manufacturing and construction executives to share their perspective with House lawmakers this week about infrastructure projects in need of funding. Read more...
10 Oct FHWA Grants Six States Money for Alternative Revenue Projects The Federal Highway Administration has divided $15.5 million between six states that are exploring alternative ways to fund highway and bridge projects. Read more...
10 Oct It’s No Use Honking. The Robot at the Wheel Can’t Hear You As auto accidents go, it wasn’t much: twelve minutes before noon on a cool June day, a Chevrolet Bolt was rear ended as it crawled from a stop light in downtown San Francisco. Read more...
10 Oct Delphi Asks Shareholders to Approve Name Change Delphi Automotive asked shareholders to approve changing the name of the company to Aptiv. Read more...
10 Oct FMCSA Grants Aim to Improve Safety, Streamline CDL Process The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s recent series of state-level grants will not only improve driver safety, but will also expedite the process of obtaining a commercial driver license, according to Tom Keane, director of the agency’s Office of Safety Programs. Read more...
09 Oct Ports of Seattle, Tacoma Face Chassis Shortage Truck drivers are facing a shortage of chassis to haul 40- and 45-foot containers from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, according to The Northwest Seaport Alliance. Read more...
09 Oct Capitol Agenda for the Week of Oct. 10: Infrastructure the Wallflower Recently, it seems Infrastructure had become the guy standing quietly in the corner as an out-of-control party raged around him. Sen. Tom Carper finally gave Infrastructure some love. Here's the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
09 Oct Belgian Mail Carrier Bpost to Buy Amazon Rival Radial for $820 Million Bpost SA, the European mail carrier controlled by the Belgian state, agreed to buy former eBay Inc. enterprise unit Radial to bolster its U.S. delivery services. Read more...
09 Oct Utah Truck Climbing Lane Will Reduce Congestion, Improve Safety, Drivers Say The Federal Highway Administration opened a period of public comment for a truck-climbing lane in Utah, according to a notice published Oct. 6 in the Federal Register. Read more...
09 Oct GM Buys Lidar Startup Strobe to Accelerate Self-Driving Cars General Motors announced Oct. 9 that it is buying Strobe, a Pasadena startup that makes lidar, a laser-based sensor that most autonomous vehicles use to see the world around them. Read more...