18 Dec California Approves $663 Million for Clean Trucks, Buses The California Air Resources Board approved a $663 million clean transportation plan Dec. 14 in an effort to increase the use of environmentally friendly trucks, buses and cars. Read more...
18 Dec FMCSA Proposes Revised Hours-of-Service Personal Conveyance Guidance Federal trucking regulators have proposed revised regulatory guidance for truckers driving a commercial motor vehicle for personal use while off-duty. Read more...
18 Dec Capitol Agenda for the Week of Dec. 18: Private Activity Bonds Stay in Tax Bill Tax policy authorizers in the U.S. House pushed a bill that had dropped private activity bonds. Senate authorizers kept the exemption. The GOP tax bill is scheduled for a vote in the House on Dec. 19. House passage will lead to a vote in the Senate soon after. Here's a look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 Dec Peloton Demonstrates Platoon System in Michigan Peloton Technology recently demonstrated its driver-assist truck platooning system on Interstate 96 in Michigan with two Volvo VNL 670 trucks, featuring one following about 60 feet behind the lead truck. Read more...
18 Dec Trump Says Train Derailment Bolsters Case for Infrastructure Plan President Donald Trump said an Amtrak passenger train derailment that killed at least six people in Washington state bolstered his case for investing in the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Read more...
18 Dec Sandhills Invests in FR8 Revolution Trade publisher Sandhills Publishing invested an undisclosed amount in FR8 Revolution Inc., operator of the FR8Star.com marketplace for open-deck freight transportation carriers and shippers. Read more...
18 Dec CenterPoint Keeps Growing in Miami Area CenterPoint Properties in December made its third acquisition in 2017 in the Miami market, buying a 130,000-square-foot Class A building in the Gratigny submarket. Read more...
18 Dec UPS, FedEx Say Holiday Shipping Not Delayed by Atlanta Airport Outage The fire that knocked out power and shut down the world’s busiest airport shouldn’t delay holiday package deliveries, two of the nation’s biggest shippers said Dec. 18. Read more...
18 Dec Love’s Adds Truck Parking in Four States Love’s Travel Stops added 357 truck parking spaces as a result of opening four new sites. The locations opened Dec.14 in Hope Hull, Ala.; Brush, Colo.; Bushnell, Fla.; and Bellville, Ohio. Read more...
18 Dec Trailer Orders Soar Above 42,000 in November Trailer orders hit 42,600 units in November, according to the research company FTR, citing preliminary data amid what it called tremendous freight growth in the fourth quarter. Read more...