19 Sep Cass Freight Indexes for Shipments, Expenditures Both Rise in August The number of U.S. freight shipments made and the amount of money spent to transport them both increased in August, according to a Sept. 19 report on freight from Cass Information Systems. Read more...
19 Sep Truck Turn Times Slow One Minute in August LONG BEACH, Calif. — The average truck turn time at the nation’s two largest ports slowed one minute in August compared with last year, even while more containers flowed into the terminals this year. Read more...
19 Sep Volvo’s Top Tech Official Says Engineers Face Uncertain Technology Landscape WASHINGTON — Truck engineers are in the midst of a technological revolution, but are challenged to move away from established technologies and venture into the unknown, according to Volvo Group Chief Technology Officer Lars Stenqvist. Read more...
19 Sep Omnitracs Acquires Assets of Shaw Tracking Omnitracs has acquired the assets of Shaw Tracking, its longtime distribution partner in Canada, company officials announced Sept. 19. Read more...
19 Sep Ballot Measure in the Works to Roll Back California’s New Gas Tax Hike A proposal for a second ballot measure to repeal a new 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax was filed with the state Sept. 14, with backers boasting they have 200,000 Californians pledged to sign the petition to qualify the initiative for the November 2018 election. Read more...
19 Sep Coca-Cola Consolidated Deploys Lytx DriveCam Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States, is deploying the DriveCam video safety program from Lytx Inc. after testing the system in part of its fleet. Read more...
19 Sep Most FedEx Rates Will Rise by 4.9% on Jan. 1 FedEx Corp. announced rate increases for its three major divisions, all of which will take effect on Jan. 1. Read more...
19 Sep ATA Tonnage Index Jumps 8.2% in August Truck tonnage took a healthy 8.2% step up in August, perhaps driven by hurricane preparation work and port shipping, American Trucking Associations said Sept. 19. Read more...
19 Sep Shipping Companies’ Expansion in Hawaii Could Go Bust for Some When an established maritime company announced tentative plans last month to start a new domestic shipping line in 2020 to serve Hawaii, it said such service would provide “market stability.” But another possible result is a cargo capacity glut Read more...