20 Sep United Road Unveils Load-Matching Application Vehicle-hauler United Road Services Inc. launched an app designed to help its third-party carriers find and book vehicle loads 24 hours a day, the Romulus, Mich., company announced Sept. 19. Read more...
20 Sep American West Acquires Sun Delivery in Furniture-Hauling Consolidation American West Worldwide Express Inc. announced Sept. 18 it will acquire Sun Delivery. The deal will close Oct. 1, but terms were not disclosed. Read more...
20 Sep Ritchie Bros. Offers PriorityBid Auctioneer Ritchie Bros. announced PriorityBid, a feature that enables buyers to make proxy bids online for items in its live auctions up to a week before the sale. Read more...
20 Sep Walgreens, Google Affiliate Wing to Launch Drone Delivery Test Walgreens and a Google affiliate are testing drone deliveries that can put drugstore products on customer doorsteps minutes after being ordered. Read more...
20 Sep Amazon Expands Two-Hour Whole Foods Delivery Ever since Amazon.com bought Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion, shoppers and investors have wondered how the e-commerce giant would integrate the upscale grocer into its sprawling online operation. Now, after two years of tinkering, Amazon is betting big on quick delivery from Whole Foods. Read more...
20 Sep California Sues US to Regain Power Over Auto Emissions California is asking a federal court to prevent President Donald Trump from stripping the state of its power to set limits on auto emissions of greenhouse gases that are stricter than those of the national government. Read more...
20 Sep Daimler Trucks Announces Battery Cell Supplier Daimler Trucks announced an agreement with battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. to supply lithium-ion battery cell modules for its electric trucks, including the Mercedes-Benz eActros, Freightliner eCascadia and Freightliner eM2. Read more...
20 Sep AI-Powered Analytics:Company Reports Can Now Write Themselves Truckers looking to autogenerate written reports from their databases now have a raft of choices available, thanks to the emergence of artificial intelligence-enabled writing software. Essentially, these AI-generated writing solutions can drill down into company databases and autoproduce easy-to-understand, written reports. Read more...
20 Sep Why Truck Makers Are Skipping Level 3 What do the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447 and a seminal 2012 study by Google on how people interact with self-driving cars have in common? Read more...
20 Sep Amazon Heeds Calls for Environmental Action Amazon.com contributed more greenhouse gas emissions last year than some big competitors in retail, logistics and technology, but less than rival Walmart Inc. and the world’s biggest energy companies, highlighting the growing scale and diverse businesses of the conglomerate. Read more...