20 Sep Cross-Border Training Seeks to Cut Time, Improve Safety for Truckers at Arizona Ports of Entry Arizona is the first state in the country to have inspectors travel across the border to train commercial truck drivers on how to cut crossing times at ports of entry while improving safety. Read more...
20 Sep Equipment Makers Set Up First ‘Fly-In’ With Washington Policymakers The rare opportunity of reforming the federal corporate tax code and ensuring long-term funding for freight infrastructure in the coming months prompted the Association of Equipment Manufacturers to recently schedule its own meetings on Capitol Hill and the White House. Read more...
19 Sep FedEx Freight’s Mark McLean Wins Third SuperTech Crown ORLANDO, Fla. — FedEx Freight technician Mark McLean captured his third Grand Champion title Sept. 19 at American Trucking Associations’ Technology and Maintenance Council National Technicians Skills Competitions, most in the 13-year history of the event. Read more...
19 Sep FedEx Quarterly Profits Decline on TNT Cyberattack, Hurricane Harvey FedEx Corp. remained profitable during the three months ended Aug. 31, but at a lower level than a year ago as the Memphis, Tenn.-based carrier had to overcome challenges from a malware infestation in Europe and from Hurricane Harvey in southeast Texas. Read more...
19 Sep Cass Freight Indexes for Shipments, Expenditures Both Rise in August The number of U.S. freight shipments made and the amount of money spent to transport them both increased in August, according to a Sept. 19 report on freight from Cass Information Systems. Read more...
19 Sep Truck Turn Times Slow One Minute in August LONG BEACH, Calif. — The average truck turn time at the nation’s two largest ports slowed one minute in August compared with last year, even while more containers flowed into the terminals this year. Read more...
19 Sep Volvo’s Top Tech Official Says Engineers Face Uncertain Technology Landscape WASHINGTON — Truck engineers are in the midst of a technological revolution, but are challenged to move away from established technologies and venture into the unknown, according to Volvo Group Chief Technology Officer Lars Stenqvist. Read more...
19 Sep Omnitracs Acquires Assets of Shaw Tracking Omnitracs has acquired the assets of Shaw Tracking, its longtime distribution partner in Canada, company officials announced Sept. 19. Read more...
19 Sep Ballot Measure in the Works to Roll Back California’s New Gas Tax Hike A proposal for a second ballot measure to repeal a new 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax was filed with the state Sept. 14, with backers boasting they have 200,000 Californians pledged to sign the petition to qualify the initiative for the November 2018 election. Read more...
19 Sep Coca-Cola Consolidated Deploys Lytx DriveCam Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States, is deploying the DriveCam video safety program from Lytx Inc. after testing the system in part of its fleet. Read more...