08 Jun Canadian Company Tests System That Converts CO2 Into Fuel A Canadian startup is testing a system that sucks carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into fuel for cars and other vehicles. Read more...
08 Jun How Drivers and Autonomous Trucks Could Work Together to Move Freight The advent of automated driving technology is poised to transform the trucking industry in the years and decades to come, but it is clear that autonomous trucks will not be ready to handle all driving tasks and conditions anytime soon. Read more...
08 Jun West Virginia Turnpike Tolls to Double West Virginia’s motorists and visitors traveling across the Mountain State learned June 7 that tolls along the West Virginia Turnpike will double when the year 2019 arrives on their calendars. Read more...
08 Jun Brian Singelais Grabs Grand Champion Honors in Massachusetts The truck safety tournament earlier this month in Massachusetts was dominated by Frito-Lay driver Brian Singelais. Read more...
08 Jun Ford Refuses to Rush Into Robo-Taxis, Even After GM, Waymo Deals General Motors Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo rocked the auto industry last week with self-driving deals that will have each deploying thousands of robo-taxis onto U.S. roads over the next 18 months. Ford Motor Co., meanwhile, will continue biding its time. Read more...
08 Jun Defining Driver Responsibility When Trucks Begin to Drive Themselves As truck makers and technology developers work toward introducing vehicles with some level of automated driving features in the years ahead, it will be essential for drivers to have a clear understanding of what those systems can and cannot do and how much they can rely on them. Read more...
08 Jun Driver Turnover Jumps for Large Carriers The rise in freight being carried nationwide led to an increase in truck driver turnover in the first quarter as large trucking firms demanded more qualified drivers to transport goods. Read more...
08 Jun Canadian National Railway Plans Purchase of 1,000 Grain Hopper Cars Canadian National Railway Co. plans to acquire 1,000 new-generation high-cube grain hopper cars over the next two years to rejuvenate the aging equipment needed to serve increasing annual crop yields, according to the Montreal-based railroad. Read more...
08 Jun Trump Says He’ll Quit NAFTA If New Deal Can’t Be Reached U.S. President Donald Trump is renewing his threat to quit NAFTA, after his economic adviser earlier this week said he wouldn’t. Read more...
08 Jun KLLM Announces Another Pay Increase for Drivers KLLM Transport Services will institute another pay hike for company drivers, bringing the increase to 30% in just the past eight months, the Jackson, Miss.-based over-the road carrier announced. Read more...