20 Sep US Trailer Orders Flat in August; Inventory Rising as GHG 2 Nears August trailer orders were flat year-over-year at 15,600, but several industry issues are clearly heating up. Read more...
20 Sep Oil Jumps After US Gasoline Stockpiles Plunge to 22-Month Low Oil advanced to the highest level since May after U.S. gasoline stockpiles plunged to a 22-month low and exports of crude and fuels surged. Read more...
20 Sep Boston’s Self-Driving Vehicle Startups Fed Up With Regulations Top automakers and tech companies are warning state officials the current regulations for testing self-driving cars may be too burdensome and could make it too hard or even impossible to test in Massachusetts, a move experts say would delay the economic and safety benefits expected from autonomous vehicles. Read more...
20 Sep ELDs, ‘Internet of Trucks’ Featured at NACV Federal regulators and experts continue to update carriers and drivers on requisite steps moving forward prior to the mandate for electronic logging devices. Read more...
20 Sep Focusing on 'Simple Things' Best Defense Against Cyberattacks ATLANTA — Defending against cyberattacks is often a matter of returning to the basics, according to Justin Turner, director of the counterthreat unit special operations team at SecureWorks. Read more...
20 Sep Floodwaters Bring Warnings of Damaged Truck Components Brakes, diesel particulate filters, electronics and wheel-ends are some of the key components that fleets should inspect on their vehicles as they recover from flooding brought on by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, experts said, adding that without remediation safety component failures are likely to surface in a matter of months. Read more...
20 Sep Existing-Home Sales Fall to a One-Year Low After Hurricane Harvey Sales of previously owned U.S. homes declined to a one-year low in August as affordability continued to hamper demand and Hurricane Harvey caused a slump in Houston-area purchases, a National Association of Realtors report showed Sept. 20. Read more...
20 Sep Fleet Complete Adds BlackBerry's Tracking Device to Platform BlackBerry and Fleet Complete have agreed to a reselling partnership that will make the BlackBerry Radar trailer and container tracking device available to users of Fleet Complete’s asset management platform. Read more...
20 Sep Brokers Move More Truckload Freight in Second Quarter Freight revenue and volume grew single digits year-over-year in the second quarter, but margins shrunk during the same period because spot market rates were higher than mid-2016, according to the Transportation Intermediaries Association’s quarterly 3PL Market Report. Read more...
20 Sep UPS Hiring 95,000 Seasonal Workers to Keep Up With Holiday Surge UPS Inc. expects to hire 95,000 temporary workers this year to help it with the annual holiday surge, when daily shipments rise by more than half. Read more...