19 May Walmart Sales Soar on Consumer Stockpiling, Online Shift Walmart Inc. jumped May 19 after reporting coronavirus-related stockpiling led to a surge in quarterly sales, underscoring the company’s strong position amid widespread carnage in the U.S. retail sector. Read more...
19 May April Tonnage Down 11.3% Year-Over-Year April truck tonnage declined 11.3% compared with year-ago levels, the steepest year-over-year decline since 2009, American Trucking Associations reported. Read more...
19 May ITI Launches Online Safety Training for Delivery Fleets Instructional Technologies Inc. announced ClearDrive online training programs are available for delivery van, commercial sedan and work truck drivers. Read more...
19 May Reliance Partners Names Thom Albrecht Chief Financial Officer Reliance Partners, an independent insurance agency serving the commercial vehicle industry, announced the addition of Thom Albrecht as chief financial officer. Read more...
19 May Americans Still Skeptical of Self-Driving Cars, Poll Shows Nearly half of Americans say they would not get in a self-driving taxi, according to a poll commissioned by the advocacy group Partners for Automated Vehicle Education. Read more...
18 May Diesel Prices Continue to Slide Even as Oil Inches Up The average price of diesel fuel nationally dropped eight-tenths of a cent last week to $2.386 a gallon from $2.394. Read more...
18 May National Transportation Week Came and Went With No Infrastructure Deal President Donald Trump proclaimed May 10-16 to be National Transportation Week. Now that it's over, are we any further along on an infrastructure plan? Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 May Comcar Industries Declares Bankruptcy Comcar Industries announced May 17 it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to sell its five operating companies as part of the legal process. Read more...
18 May US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months May 18 in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and extremely early test. Read more...
18 May Tesla Reopens California Plant, Says It Has Alameda County’s Approval Tesla Inc. told employees that a California county health official has now signed off on safety measures the company took last week at its car plant as it restarted production in defiance of the area’s shutdown order. Read more...