08 Feb Fulfillment Centers Moving Closer to Consumers The growth in e-commerce is driving up demand for smaller industrial spaces nearer to cities so fulfillment firms can quickly get their products to customers, but it remains to be seen if fulfillment centers will start operating in suburban neighborhoods. Read more...
08 Feb Consumer Comfort Stays Elevated Even as Stocks Fall U.S. consumer comfort last week held near the highest level since 2001 even as stocks fell on concerns about higher interest rates, the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index showed Feb. 8. Read more...
08 Feb J.B. Hunt Heads to High Court J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to exempt truckers from California’s law on meal and rest breaks and certain provisions of the state’s wage and labor law. Read more...
08 Feb Google Emails Show Internal Concern Over Losing Driverless Lead Three years ago, the head of Google’s self-driving car project emailed co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to sound an alarm. Read more...
08 Feb Hill Consideration of Meal, Rest Break Proposal Continues Congressional leaders have until March 23 to finalize a fiscal 2018 funding bill, as part of a deal Senate leaders recently struck that also would provide $90 billion for hurricane disaster relief and $20 billion for infrastructure projects. Read more...
08 Feb Autonomous Coast-to-Coast Tesla Trip Past Deadline, Still Coming Tesla Inc. hasn’t thrown its plan to demonstrate an autonomous cross-country drive out the window — it’s just tapped the brakes. Read more...
08 Feb Forward Air Reports Mixed Results in 4Q Greeneville, Tenn.-based Forward Air Corp. reported Feb. 7 fourth-quarter net income of $35.4 million, or $1.18 earnings per share, compared with $12.7 million, or 42 cents, in the fourth quarter a year ago. Read more...
08 Feb Wintry Weather Illustrates One Challenge Facing Vehicle Automation Snow-covered blacktop can be a big problem for autonomous vehicles, which to this point largely use cameras that zero in on lane markings to guide the car down the highway. Read more...
08 Feb Prosecutor Takes on Defense in Pilot Flying J Fraud Trial; No Verdict Yet CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Jurors in whose hands rest the fate of the former president of the nation’s largest diesel fuel retailer and three subordinates went home Feb. 7 after nearly four hours of deliberations and no verdict. Read more...
08 Feb FHWA Ends Plans for Two Environmental Studies of D.C.-Area Routes The Federal Highway Administration is rescinding two notices of intent for environmental impact statements in Virginia and the District of Columbia, according to a document scheduled for publication in the Federal Register Feb. 9. Read more...