22 Feb Uber CEO Touts ‘Great’ Talks With Toyota CEO on Autonomous Cars The world’s largest car maker and biggest ride-hailing company plan to team up on autonomous driving as technological changes sweep through the transportation industry. Read more...
22 Feb Thefts Down but Crooks Turning to LTLs Cargo thefts in the United States dropped 15% last year to 649 incidents while the average value per theft stayed virtually unchanged at about $146,000, according to the SensiGuard Supply Chain Intelligence Center’s Cargo Theft Annual Report. Read more...
22 Feb Jobless Claims at Five-Week Low Amid Tight Labor Market U.S. filings for unemployment benefits fell to a five-week low, suggesting tightening in a labor market already operating near full capacity, Labor Department figures showed Feb. 22. Read more...
21 Feb Tonnage Rise Pushes Spot Rates Higher Truck tonnage rose 8.8% in January on a year-over-year basis, according to American Trucking Associations’ monthly for-hire truck tonnage index. Read more...
21 Feb Americans’ Economic Expectations Reach Second-Highest Since 2002 Americans’ outlook for the U.S. economy improved in February to the second-highest level since March 2002, indicating lower taxes are resonating, the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index showed Feb. 21. Read more...
21 Feb Texas Official Wants Driverless Lanes on Interstate 35 Bexar County, Texas, Commissioner Kevin Wolff believes that a meeting he had last month in Washington with federal transportation officials could lead to construction of lanes for driverless automated vehicles on the Austin-San Antonio section of Interstate 35. Read more...
21 Feb Analysis: Self-Driving Cars Need Standardized Software to Avoid Crashes Fans of self-driving cars will have breathed a sigh of relief at the news that Uber and Google’s Waymo, two giants in the industry, have settled their intellectual-property lawsuit. This removes a huge distraction for companies, freeing them up to focus on their own research. Read more...
21 Feb More Vocational Fleets Opting for Automated Transmissions An aging driver population and the addition of vocational-specific features are the top reasons fleet managers and industry executives cited for growth in two-pedal transmission use among vocational truck buyers. Read more...
21 Feb Port Tampa Bay Welcomes First Shipment of Bananas in 21 Years More than two decades after the last bunch arrived on shore, bananas are back at Tampa’s port. Read more...
21 Feb Truck Driving Makes 2018 List of Toughest Jobs to Fill The truck driving profession is on the top 10 list for CareerCast’s 2018 Toughest Jobs to Fill report, which CareerCast Online Content Editor Kyle Kensing believes is the result of the recession and skills gap. Read more...