25 May Brazilian Truckers Suspend Strike; Diesel Price Set for 30 Days Brazil’s government hailed an agreement to suspend a four-day nationwide truckers’ strike over diesel prices that wreaked havoc on Latin America’s largest economy and sparked major shortages of food and fuel. Read more...
24 May Editorial: New FMCSA Chief Shows Vision Ray Martinez, the newly installed head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, made the rounds last week, speaking first to trucking executives at American Trucking Associations’ midyear management meeting May 20 and then to lawmakers in the House of Representatives in Washington at a hearing by the Highways and Transit Subcommittee. Read more...
24 May Consumer Comfort Snaps Four-Week Skid on Views of Finances U.S. household sentiment improved for the first time in five weeks on more upbeat views about personal finances and the economy, the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index showed May 24. Read more...
24 May Trump’s Auto-Tariff Threat Adds New Pressure to NAFTA Talks President Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping new tariffs on imported automobiles may be an attempt to pressure his NAFTA partners into striking a deal that would help drive manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Read more...
24 May Uber Self-Driving Car in Fatal Crash Wasn’t Programmed to Brake Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving vehicle wasn’t programmed to stop for obstructions in its path, including the pedestrian it struck and killed last March in Arizona, according to federal investigators. Read more...
24 May 1Q Numbers for Ports Show Continued Strong Growth With data now in for the first third of the year, operators of some of the nation’s ports said they are setting records as the economy keeps booming — even as volume dipped at the nation’s largest port. Read more...
24 May Start of Summer Driving Season Means More Motorists, Analysts Say The unofficial start of the summer driving season is finally upon us and that means for millions of drivers it will be that time again to hire a dogsitter, pack the swimsuits, sunblock and folding chairs, and drive to the beach (or lake, or pool) to stay cool. Read more...
24 May Uber Ends Testing of Self-Driving Cars, Trucks in Arizona Uber Technologies Inc. confirmed it is shutting down its autonomous vehicle operations in Arizona, including its self-driving trucks, two months after one of its self-driving passenger cars struck and killed a pedestrian in the state. Read more...
24 May AASHTO’s Bud Wright Announces Retirement Bud Wright, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, will retire at the end of the year. Read more...
24 May Uber Aims to Restart Self-Driving Car Tests in Pittsburgh This Summer Uber is shutting down testing operations in Arizona and focusing instead on testing in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, according to an internal e-mail from Eric Meyhofer, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate and the head of Uber’s self-driving car operations. Read more...