06 Apr CSX to Purchase Collision Avoidance System Freight rail company CSX Corp. is ordering the Protran Technology Collision Avoidance System to be installed on several hundred of its railway track maintenance machines, and eventually onto its entire fleet. Read more...
06 Apr TFI Buys Normandin Transit TFI International purchased Normandin Transit, a provider of less-than-truckload and truckload freight services in the United States and Canada. Read more...
06 Apr Chao to Defend Fiscal 2019 Budget Request at House Hearing April 12 The country’s top transportation officer is scheduled to defend President Donald Trump’s request to reduce the U.S. Department of Transportation’s discretionary budget by 19% when she testifies before a House panel April 12. Read more...
06 Apr NAFTA Trio Meets Amid Growing Optimism for Deal Senior ministers from the three NAFTA countries are gathering in Washington amid growing signs of optimism that they could find common ground on the toughest issues. Read more...
06 Apr Trump Says He’ll Take ‘Very Serious Look’ at Amazon’s Business President Donald Trump said he will take a “very serious look” at Amazon and what he said is an “uneven playing field” the retailer enjoys against competitors. Read more...
06 Apr China Vows to Fight Trump Tariffs ‘to the End’ as Tension Rises President Donald Trump said the current trade spat with China may hurt the markets in the short term but that America will emerge stronger from it, as a confrontation that has roiled global equities heats up between the world’s largest economies. Read more...
05 Apr Microsoft Joins Self-Driving Vehicle Development at Michigan Test Center On a blustery spring day that showed exactly why Michigan’s range of weather is perfect for testing self-driving and connected vehicles, the American Center for Mobility formally opened and announced a far-reaching deal April 4 with Microsoft. Read more...
05 Apr Schneider Appoints Stephen Bruffett CFO Diversified motor carrier Schneider announced Stephen Bruffett will join the company as chief financial officer, effective April 29. Read more...
05 Apr Houston Joins Smart Cities Program to Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles Houston will join 21 other cities in a national partnership aimed at addressing persistent transportation challenges as technology and mobility choices have planners rethinking how streets, sidewalks and private spaces interact. Read more...
05 Apr Security Robot Cuts Crime for XPO A security robot that XPO Logistics deployed at its Atlanta logistics facility has reduced incidents in the parking lot and the building’s exterior to zero in the first six months it has been monitoring the area. Read more...