19 Feb Buttigieg: After COVID-19 Relief, an Infrastructure Policy Transportation Secretary Pete Buittigieg echoed the White House’s strategy of pursuing comprehensive infrastructure legislation after the approval of a new round of COVID-19 aid. Read more...
19 Feb Nel Launches Modular On-Site Hydrogen Generators Nel Hydrogen Electrolyzer announced it launched the MC250 and MC500 containerized Proton PEM electrolyzers, its modular on-site hydrogen generators. Read more...
19 Feb Texas Gas Stations Still Dark Following Big Freeze More than 1,700 gas stations are without electricity Feb. 19 because of the Texas power disaster, threatening to push pump prices even higher with key refineries in the state still shut. Read more...
19 Feb How Drivers Are Using Mobile Apps to Make Life on the Road Easier Today’s professional truck drivers are using mobile apps to help manage many facets of work and life on the road. Read more...
19 Feb Trucking Explores Augmented Reality to Enhance Training, Operations The adoption of immersive technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality by the freight and logistics industry has accelerated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
19 Feb Trucking’s Shifting Technology Landscape Motor carriers and logistics providers have been applying the latest technologies to help solve old challenges, such as driver recruiting and retention, regulatory compliance and moving freight more efficiently while ensuring highway safety. Read more...
19 Feb Deere Surges With Farmers Signaling Best Year Ever Deere & Co. lifted its earnings guidance above analyst estimates, with elevated crop prices and an improving farm economy signaling a record windfall for the biggest maker of agricultural machinery. Read more...
19 Feb Ex-Pilot Flying J President Hazelwood, Two Others, to Be Retried There is no question now that former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood and two former company executives, already convicted of cheating truckers out of diesel fuel rebates, will be retried on federal criminal charges. What remains unknown, though, is when? Read more...
19 Feb Pennsylvania Trucking Industry Opposes State DOT’s Bridge Tolling Plan The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has released a list of bridges that are being considered for tolling, a practice the state’s trucking community has bristled against. Read more...
19 Feb UK Supreme Court Gives Uber Drivers Benefits in Landmark Ruling LONDON — Uber drivers in Britain should be classed as “workers” and not self-employed, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Feb. 19, in a decision that threatens the company’s business model and holds broader implications for the so-called gig economy. Read more...