19 May Americans Still Skeptical of Self-Driving Cars, Poll Shows Nearly half of Americans say they would not get in a self-driving taxi, according to a poll commissioned by the advocacy group Partners for Automated Vehicle Education. Read more...
18 May Diesel Prices Continue to Slide Even as Oil Inches Up The average price of diesel fuel nationally dropped eight-tenths of a cent last week to $2.386 a gallon from $2.394. Read more...
18 May National Transportation Week Came and Went With No Infrastructure Deal President Donald Trump proclaimed May 10-16 to be National Transportation Week. Now that it's over, are we any further along on an infrastructure plan? Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 May Comcar Industries Declares Bankruptcy Comcar Industries announced May 17 it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to sell its five operating companies as part of the legal process. Read more...
18 May US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months May 18 in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and extremely early test. Read more...
18 May Tesla Reopens California Plant, Says It Has Alameda County’s Approval Tesla Inc. told employees that a California county health official has now signed off on safety measures the company took last week at its car plant as it restarted production in defiance of the area’s shutdown order. Read more...
18 May Groups Propose Tweaks to FEMA Infrastructure Resilience Guidance Stakeholders largely supportive of a new disaster mitigation program at the Federal Emergency Management Agency call for tweaking aspects of its proposed guidance. Read more...
18 May DTNA Launches E-Commerce Platform to Replace Pinnacle Parts Daimler Trucks North America announced the launch of Excelerator, its next-generation e-commerce platform to streamline the parts-ordering process that included input from more than 40 dealer partners to its design. Read more...
18 May Uber Cuts 3,000 More Jobs, Closes Offices Amid Pandemic Revamp Uber Technologies Inc. eliminated an additional 3,000 jobs May 18, is closing dozens of offices worldwide and is shutting down many side projects in an effort to weather the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the ride-hailing business. Read more...
18 May Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 18, 2020 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the May 18, 2020 print edition. Read more...