26 Dec America’s Hottest Oil Play Just Needs a Few Thousand Truckers When the price of oil collapsed in 2014 and disrupted drilling operations all across Texas’ massive Permian Basin shale formation, truckers were among those hardest hit. Read more...
21 Dec ATA President Chris Spear Proposes Infrastructure Fund at Senate Transportation Hearing WASHINGTON — American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear asked Congress to consider establishing an infrastructure fund capable of generating about $340 billion over 10 years. Read more...
21 Dec Trucking Executive Outlines Tax Reform’s Benefits for Industry The incoming tax reform bill could be a welcome holiday gift for truckers, according to Barry Pottle, president of Pottle’s Transportation and first vice chairman of American Trucking Associations. Read more...
21 Dec Greek Shipper Bets $1 Billion on Fuel Rule Upending World Trade A Greek shipowner is predicting new rules for marine fuel will put thousands of the world’s merchant vessels out of business in the next two years, roiling global trade. In fact, he’s wagering $1.1 billion on it. Read more...
21 Dec Barry Pottle Outlines Tax Reform’s Benefits for Truckers The incoming tax reform bill could be a welcome holiday gift for truckers, according to Barry Pottle, president of Pottle’s Transportation and first vice chairman of American Trucking Associations. Read more...
21 Dec Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: ‘A Lot of Interest in Infrastructure’ Bipartisan support for infrastructure reform increases the chances for the Senate to take up a transportation bill next year, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Dec. 21. Read more...
21 Dec Jacksonville Opens Test Track to Future for Self-Driving Shuttles The futuristic appeal of the autonomous vehicles that began operating Dec. 21 on the Jacksonville Transportation Authority test track is the prospect that eventually hundreds of them could be shuttling passengers around downtown. Read more...
21 Dec If You Hate Driving in the Snow, a Robot Can Now Do It For You Self-driving cars may be the future, but relinquishing control of the wheel certainly takes some getting used to. It’s one thing to go (slowly) with the flow on well-marked city streets, for which many self-driving cars were initially developed and tested, but what happens when you throw icy winter road conditions into the mix? Read more...
21 Dec New Deal Sends Autonomous Caterpillar Trucks to Australia Another fleet of mining trucks will join the growing ranks of machines operating autonomously using Caterpillar Inc. systems in Australia next year, reflecting the company’s push to cement industry partnerships with proprietary technology. Read more...
21 Dec Analysis: FedEx’s Good News Could Get Big League FedEx Corp.’s delivery truck is heading in the right direction, but the turbo-charge from Uncle Sam won’t hurt. The $65 billion company reported earnings after the close of trading on Dec. 20, besting analysts’ quarterly estimates and raising its full-year outlook. Read more...