25 Mar Suez Canal Choked for Third Day as Elite Team Tackles Stuck Ship A huge backlog of ships was building up around the Suez Canal for a third day as an elite salvage team set about the monumental challenge of freeing the container vessel that’s blocking the crucial waterway. Read more...
24 Mar Bosch Research Calculates Value of Level 2 ADAS Bosch Research announced that recent accident data it studied pointed to significant potential reductions in injuries and deaths, and to the cost savings that could result from equipping Classes 7-8 vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems focused on a truck’s position in a lane. Read more...
24 Mar USDOT Begins Undoing Trump-Era Restrictions on Rulemaking The U.S. Department of Transportation has begun the process of undoing a set of Trump-era regulations that ground agency work with industry to a halt and threatened to slow adoption of major policy goals of the Biden administration. Read more...
24 Mar Senate Commerce Committee Chair Looks to Infrastructure Investments Approving massive investments for transportation projects would significantly improve the country’s economy, Maria Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce Committee said at a hearing March 24. Read more...
24 Mar Arkansas Carrier Forced to Close After Multimillion-Dollar Ruling Over Valentine’s Day dinner last year, Randy Clifton and his wife, Karyn, decided the fate of the trucking company that had been Randy’s pride and joy for a decade. Unfortunately, they had to close down. Read more...
24 Mar DSI Bulk Transport Maintains Identity Under American Bulk Commodities When American Bulk Commodities acquired DSI Bulk Transport earlier this year, it was a deal that ABC President Mark Carrocce said dovetailed nicely with his company's business philosophy. Read more...
24 Mar XPO Opening Automated Logistics Facility in Indiana XPO Logistics will open an automated logistics facility in Clayton, Ind., at one of the state’s major logistics hubs in Hendricks County. The new facility is expected to employ 800 people and become fully operational sometime this summer, according to XPO. Read more...
24 Mar GM to Halt Midsize Truck Production on Chip Woes DETROIT — General Motors Co. is halting production for two weeks at its Missouri midsize truck plant due to a global semiconductor supply constraint, the automaker said March 24. Read more...
24 Mar Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern Merger Will Create 'Transformative' Network Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. envisions a “transformative” remaking of its freight-rail business after an announced merger with Kansas City Southern Railway that will create the first U.S.-Mexico-Canada network. Read more...
24 Mar Alabama Leaders Pitch Trucks-Only Toll Bridge Leaders in the Mobile, Ala., area have proposed plans for a new toll bridge project that will be exclusive to large trucks. Read more...