19 Feb Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Pleads for Patience Amid Canadian Rail Blockades Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for patience and dialog as indigenous-rights protests that have brought rail traffic to a halt across Canada drag on. Read more...
19 Feb Outrider Gets $53 Million to Automate Truck Yards Technology company Outrider closed out an early stage of financing with $53 million to automate truck yards, the company announced Feb. 19. Read more...
19 Feb GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Poised to Begin Electric Transformation The last Chevrolet Impala will roll down the line next week at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, making way for the plant’s next phase: electric vehicles. Read more...
19 Feb NFI Motivated to Move Forward on Electric CHINO, Calif. — For-hire carrier NFI is planning broader adoption of electric Class 8 trucks after six months of testing the Freightliner eCascadia in Southern California, the company said. Read more...
19 Feb Boeing Inspects 737 Max for Fuel-Tank Debris in New Setback Boeing Co. is inspecting more than 400 stored 737 Max jets after discovering debris such as tools or rags left in the fuel tanks of several newly built but undelivered aircraft. Read more...
19 Feb Electric Trucks Must Reap Financial and Environmental Benefits, Execs Say FONTANA, Calif. — The financial case must be just as sound as the environmental argument if electric trucks are to succeed in the marketplace, stakeholders said. Read more...
19 Feb Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks: 2020 ATRI Ranking Has Familiar Choke Points This is one ranking where you probably don't want to repeat as champion, but for the second year in a row, the approach to the George Washington Bridge heading into New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River is being cited as the nation's worst truck bottleneck. Read more...
18 Feb Make Infrastructure Great Now, Surface Transportation in a Few Months President Donald Trump’s infrastructure directive explained in his fiscal 2021 budget to Congress is about urgency. The time to act is now. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 Feb Trump Plan: Make Infrastructure Great Now, Surface Transportation in a Few Months President Donald Trump’s infrastructure directive explained in his fiscal 2021 budget to Congress is about urgency. The time to act is now. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 Feb Diesel Declines 2¢ a Gallon to $2.89 The price of diesel fuel declined by 2 cents a gallon nationally Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Read more...