20 Aug Tesla Swaps Year-Away Robotaxis for Year-Away Humanoid Robot More than two years after touting plans to turn Tesla Inc. vehicles into robotaxis that have yet to materialize, Elon Musk held another highly technical event about autonomous driving development. Read more...
19 Aug Transportation Panels Pursue Climate, Clean Energy Priorities in $3.5 Trillion Budget House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging Democrats to unify in support of a $3.5 trillion budget proposal that would help advance President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, including social aid programs and climate change policies. Read more...
19 Aug Supply Chain Challenges Likely to Remain Well Into 2022 As retailers ramp up inventory for a fast-approaching holiday shopping season, experts worry that an already overextended domestic supply chain will be further tested amid overseas ports’ struggles with the COVID-19 delta variant, rising shipping prices and trucking’s persistent and growing driver shortage. Read more...
19 Aug Workers at Mexico GM Plant Oust Union MEXICO CITY — Workers at a General Motors plant in Mexico have voted to end a collective bargaining contract negotiated by an old-guard union accused of intimidation tactics in earlier votes. It was an early display of the effectiveness of labor mechanisms negotiated under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. Read more...
19 Aug Senate Democrats Ask for Taiwan’s Help With Chip Shortage Three Democratic senators are asking the Taiwanese government to help the U.S. with a chip shortage that has idled auto plants and sent workers packing throughout the industry as the global economy struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
19 Aug ATRI Seeks Driver Input on Job Motivations, Satisfaction The American Transportation Research Institute announced Aug. 18 that it has launched a data collection initiative to better understand drivers’ job motivations. Read more...
19 Aug Toyota Cuts Show Chip Shortage Ravages Even Best Supply Planners Toyota Motor Corp.’s efforts to stockpile enough chips and other key components to ride out supply disruptions only protected the company so long before it too succumbed to the shortages eviscerating automakers. Read more...
19 Aug Jobless Claims Hit a Pandemic Low as Hiring Strengthens WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. Read more...
19 Aug Amid Disruptions, Midwestern States Issue Regulatory Relief for Fuel Haulers Supply chain challenges have prompted multiple states in the Midwest to extend regulatory relief to truckers who haul fuel. Read more...
19 Aug Just as Things Look Better for Retail, Amazon Rears Its Head News of Amazon .com Inc.’s department store plans sent a shudder through retail stocks just as some of the biggest names in the industry were reporting robust earnings, a signal that new challenges await in the beleaguered sector. Read more...