24 Jan VW’s Herbert Diess Confident He Can Catch Tesla in Electric Car Race Volkswagen AG CEO Herbert Diess is preparing to muscle Elon Musk out of the electric-car lead. Read more...
23 Jan Amtrak’s $2.1B Acela Upgrade May Miss 2021 Planned Start Amtrak’s $2.1 billion upgrade to its high-speed Acela rail service between Washington and Boston may miss a planned start of paid customer service in 2021, according to the railroad’s internal watchdog. Read more...
23 Jan CARB Ahead of EPA in Bid to Establish NOx Rule for Heavy Trucks More than a year ago, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials announced the agency’s Cleaner Trucks Initiative, an effort to work closely with the California Air Resources Board to develop a more stringent “harmonized” nitrogen oxide-emissions rule for heavy trucks. Read more...
23 Jan Advocates Ranks Best, Worst States for Enacting Highway Safety Laws For the fourth year in a row, Rhode Island has topped Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety’s list evaluating states’ road safety enforcement efforts. Read more...
23 Jan AAA: Electric Vehicles Are Looking More Appealing to Consumers Electric vehicles are becoming more economically competitive with their gas-fueled counterparts and people are feeling less “range anxiety” about how far they can get on a charge, according to new research by AAA. Read more...
23 Jan Heartland Express Reports Q4 Revenue Up While Net Income Dips Heartland Express Inc. announced Jan. 23 that net income for the fourth quarter of 2019 declined while revenue increased. Read more...
23 Jan Most Ports Post Strong 2019 Despite Trump Tariffs As the nation’s major ports add up the number of 20-foot-containers processed at their facilities in 2019, the numbers either slightly exceeded or came close to breaking 2018’s record-level figures, despite a year of diminished trade with China because of the Trump administration’s tariffs. Read more...
23 Jan Former T&I Leader Bill Shuster Touts Fuel Tax, Presses for Leadership With the U.S. House of Representatives readying consideration of a comprehensive highway bill as early as the week of Jan. 27, Bill Shuster, formerly the leader of that chamber’s transportation panel, argued that an increase in the federal fuel tax is an ideal approach for Congress to consider as a means of funding for the measure. Read more...
23 Jan USMCA Passage Applauded by Trucking The U.S. Senate recently passed a major new trade deal in a move that is spurring optimism throughout the trucking industry. Read more...
23 Jan Trump, Automakers Face New Pressure Not to Ease Mileage Rules Environmentalists and consumer advocacy groups are castigating automakers for supporting the Trump administration’s effort to relax fuel economy standards, amid fresh warnings from a Democratic leader that the plan won’t deliver promised safety benefits and will raise costs for consumers. Read more...