14 Dec 2017: A Year Spent Looking Ahead 2017 was a year of anticipation for the freight transportation industry, leading up to the long-awaited Dec. 18 mandate for broad adoption of electronic logging devices to track hours of service. Read more...
14 Dec 2017 By the Numbers As a busy 2017 comes to a close, let’s see which stories topped the TTNews.com charts and garnered the most buzz on social media Read more...
14 Dec Female Driver Outreach May Need Rethinking Efforts to attract more female drivers to trucking are facing headwinds, despite some organizations pushing hard to make the industry more open to women. Read more...
14 Dec Goldman Says Big Oil Is Poised for Its Best Year in Decades Big Oil’s slump is over and industry domination beckons, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Read more...
13 Dec YRC CEO James Welch to Retire in 2018 YRC Worldwide CEO James Welch will retire on July 31, 2018, the less-than-truckload carrier announced Dec. 13. Read more...
13 Dec Aptiv to Open Boston Office, Adding to Self-Driving Work in Pittsburgh Aptiv, the automotive technology company formerly known as Delphi, will open an office in Boston to further its work on self-driving cars. Read more...
13 Dec Mack Trucks Adding 400 Jobs at Pennsylvania Assembly Plant Mack is back, upshifting into hiring mode for its massive Lower Macungie Township, Pa., assembly plant that already employs about 2,000 people. Read more...
13 Dec Medium-Duty Sales Rise in November Sales of medium-duty trucks rose 12.9% in November on the strength of Class 7 trucks, which posted the largest year-over-year increase, according to WardsAuto.com. Read more...
13 Dec You Can Say That Again! Trump and trucks on the White House lawn. ELDs and HOS. Autonomous and all-electric technology. Ailing infrastructure and driver wellness. If it made the news in 2017, then Transport Topics covered it. How well do you know who said what over the past 12 months. Take this quiz and find out! Read more...
13 Dec This Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market On the evening of Nov. 16, Elon Musk unveiled the latest prop in his Tony Stark cosplay. Tesla Inc.’s all-electric semi rig met all the classic Musk product launch criteria: It looked stunning, had unprecedented performance numbers, included features straight out of science fiction, and would arrive at some unknown date at a too-good-to-be-true price from a still-to-be-built assembly line. Read more...