06 Mar Developers Revive Cold-Storage Facility Plans in Maine A hotly anticipated plan for a waterfront cold-storage warehouse is back on the table in Portland, Maine. Read more...
06 Mar Trump’s Biofuel Plan Triggers Political Fallout in Farm Country President Donald Trump’s decision to defend the U.S. government’s power to broadly exempt oil refineries from biofuel-blending requirements is triggering a backlash in Iowa and other states that are top producers of ethanol and the corn used to make it. Read more...
06 Mar DTNA Launches Second Program With Customers to Test Electric Trucks Daimler Trucks North America announced six heavy-duty Freightliner eCascadias and two medium-duty eM2 106 all-electric trucks were included in the launch of its customer experience fleet initiative as part of its electric truck program. Read more...
06 Mar Trump Signs $8.3 Billion Coronavirus Emergency Funding Into Law Legislation to provide $8.3 billion for public health initiatives meant to tackle the spread of the coronavirus was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 6. Read more...
06 Mar OPEC+ Talks Collapse, Threatening Russia-Saudi Oil Alliance OPEC+ talks ended in dramatic failure, signaling the possible end of a diplomatic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Russia that has underpinned crude prices and changed the balance of power in the Middle East. Read more...
06 Mar US Trade Deficit Narrows to $45.3 Billion in January WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in January as exports fell but imports fell more. The politically sensitive trade gap with China widened. Read more...
06 Mar Parsing Data to Better Understand Risk Dozens of data sets go into using predictive analytics to determine a truck driver’s risk of being in an accident. Read more...
06 Mar The Shame Police: Google Toys With Penalizing Slow-Loading Websites Internet search goliath Google is toying with the idea of shaming slow-loading websites by displaying a “Usually loads slow” splash screen in place of a homepage when someone is trying to visit such sites. Read more...
06 Mar While Self-Driving Car Hype Decelerates, Automated Trucks Grab Attention at CES LAS VEGAS — Even as automated vehicle developers tamped down inflated expectations for fully self-driving passenger cars at CES 2020, several companies continued to tout the market potential for highly automated commercial vehicles. Read more...
06 Mar Fleets Turn to Predictive Analytics to Prevent Crashes, Reduce Driver Turnover A trucking company’s success and reputation depend directly on its drivers’ safety performance, but it’s not so easy to determine which drivers are most likely to be involved in a crash or incur a safety infraction. Read more...