22 Aug Lyft Driverless Cars Top 5,000 Rides in Las Vegas Lyft driverless cars have provided more than 5,000 rides to passengers on the Las Vegas Strip since May. Read more...
22 Aug FMCSA Plans to Continue to Reduce Commercial Vehicle Registration Fees in 2019, 2020 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has posted a proposed rule that would continue to reduce commercial vehicle registration fees in 2019 and 2020, the agency said in an Aug. 21 Federal Register announcement. Read more...
21 Aug Uber Freight Launches Shipper Platform Uber Freight has introduced a technology platform for shippers to connect with drivers and small fleets hauling freight via its load-matching mobile app. Read more...
21 Aug Tonnage Index Increases 1.9% in July, ATA Reports American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.9% in July, a turnaround from the 0.5% decrease in June, the federation announced Aug. 21. Read more...
21 Aug UPS Teamsters Leadership in Louisville Votes Against Tentative Agreement for Drivers, Freight Divisions International Brotherhood of Teamsters shop stewards with Louisville, Ky.-based Local 89 have voted overwhelmingly against the tentative five-year agreement negotiated earlier this summer between UPS Inc. and the union, according to union officials who spoke with Transport Topics. Read more...
21 Aug China Shipowners Stop Hauling Iranian Oil as US Sanctions Near China’s shipowners are shunning Iran’s oil, while the OPEC producer is using its own tankers to supply top customers as impending U.S. sanctions threaten to disrupt global crude trade. Read more...
21 Aug FMCSA Seeks Industry Comment on Several Potential HOS Changes Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials have issued a proposal that seeks comment on several possible changes to the agency’s hours-of-service rule, ranging from how to increase driver or workday time in adverse driving conditions to revising the current mandatory 30-minute driver break after eight hours of continuous driving. Read more...
21 Aug For Martin Weissburg, President Post at Mack Trucks Is ‘Dream Come True’ ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Martin Weissburg, the newly appointed president of Mack Trucks, is studying further changes to the Lehigh Valley Operations plant as he begins to put his mark on what he called a dream job. Read more...
21 Aug ATRI Launches Industry Issues Survey Trucking industry representatives now can submit their concerns to the American Transportation Research Institute. The nonprofit research organization launched its 2018 Top Industry Issues Survey on Aug. 21. Read more...
21 Aug Why Future Vehicles Are More Likely to Be Painted Light Colors Henry Ford famously said a customer can have a car in “any color that he wants, as long as it is black.” But black on self-driving cars could be deadly. Read more...