24 Jun In Ohio, Lordstown Motors Is a Glint of Hope Among Heartbreak In a cavernous Northeast Ohio factory that General Motors Co. left last year, a small group of engineers is coaxing dormant robots back to life — one by one — in a long-shot bid to build a new type of pickup truck. Read more...
24 Jun XPO Stresses Agility in Supply Chain Management During Pandemic Executives from XPO Logistics said flexibility, visibility and data science have been key to navigating the business landscape during the coronavirus pandemic, as it relates to both employees and customers. Read more...
24 Jun US Regulators Order New Fix for Grounded Boeing Max Planes U.S. safety officials will require all Boeing 737 Max airliners to be inspected for a manufacturing defect on engine coverings that they say could lead to loss of power during flights. Read more...
24 Jun China’s Virus-Safety Demand Is Latest Hurdle to Trade Deal China wants international shippers of meat and soybeans to sign a document attesting their cargoes meet safety standards to ensure they aren’t contaminated with the novel coronavirus. Read more...
24 Jun Logistics Costs Increase to $1.63 Trillion in 2019 Business logistics costs increased marginally in 2019 as conditions in the sector normalized, but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty to the outlook for 2020, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals announced in a June 23 report. Read more...
24 Jun American Air Pilots Want US to Buy Seats for Distancing American Airlines Group Inc.’s pilots are calling on the U.S. government to pay for enough jetliner seats to enable social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
24 Jun NACFE 'Run on Less Regional' Results Prompt Feedback, Analysis Industry feedback aimed at a report on regional trucking called for additional attention to the complexity of managing aerodynamic equipment in that operational environment, and generated new assumptions on the length of haul. Read more...
24 Jun Americans Are Avoiding Stores Again in New Virus Hot Spots While evidence of a virus-sparked consumer pullback is largely anecdotal for now, it would be a setback for a U.S. economy that has just started to perk up, with retail sales jumping to a record in May. Read more...
24 Jun Starsky Robotics Founder Discusses Future of Autonomous Trucking Automated technology developers are shooting for the moon when they could instead be implementing ground-level initiatives in trucking, the founder of Starsky Robotics says. Read more...
24 Jun Nuclear Jury Awards Against Truckers on the Rise, ATRI Study Shows In the past five years there were nearly 300 court cases resulting in jury verdicts over $1 million against trucking fleets, according to a new American Transportation Research Institute analysis made public on June 23. Read more...