05 Oct Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Majority of Pilot Flying J in Two-Step Process Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. investment company bought a minority stake in Pilot Travel Centers LLC, owner of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain, and will become the majority shareholder in six years. Read more...
05 Oct Rhode Island Pulls Back Funding For Truck-Related Programs Due to delays in the state Legislature and an unexpected dearth of resources, Rhode Island’s government has made changes to funding for programs pertinent to the trucking industry. Read more...
05 Oct Consumer Comfort Declines by Most in a Year on Finances Americans’ confidence suffered its biggest weekly setback in more than a year as optimism about personal finances slumped, Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index figures showed Oct. 5. Read more...
05 Oct Bill Allowing 80,000 Self-Driving Cars on the Road Passes Senate Panel WASHINGTON – On a unanimous voice vote, a Senate committee approved legislation Oct. 4 that authorizes self-driving car makers to sell as many as 80,000 vehicles a year within three years that would be exempt from current safety standards as manufacturers develop technology for autonomous vehicles. Read more...
05 Oct Hacking Risk Is What Worries Americans Most About Driverless Vehicles U.S. residents are “polarized” on whether to embrace driverless cars, according to a survey by insurer American International Group Inc. Read more...
05 Oct Waymo Engineer Left Trail of Deleted Files En Route to Uber Uber Technologies Inc. hired an engineer to lead its driverless car program last year even after its own research revealed red flags about how much proprietary information he took from his former employer, Waymo. Read more...
05 Oct NAFTA Talks Expose Disagreement Over Mexican Trucking Access As efforts to renegotiate terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement shift from Ottawa to Washington, two trucking industry groups and the Teamsters union are taking aim at a provision in the current agreement that allows trucks from Mexico to operate in the United States. Read more...
05 Oct Self-Driving Vehicles Raising Big Questions Around Drunk Driving, Seat Belts, Open Container Laws and More The idea of highways being filled with self-driving cars may be alluring, but it has highway safety experts raising numerous questions about common contemporary issues like drunk driving, seat belt use and how other motorists might react to a car without a driver behind the wheel. Read more...
05 Oct Senate Committee Approves Self-Driving Vehicles Bill Without Trucking Policy An effort to attach trucking-centric provisions to Senate legislation on self-driving vehicles did not materialize during the bill’s consideration Oct. 4. Read more...
05 Oct Jobless Claims Fall 12,000 to 260,000 U.S. filings for unemployment benefits fell last week as the impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma faded in several states, Labor Department figures showed Oct. 5. Read more...