03 Apr Louisiana’s Courville Gets Crowned, Again, at State Truck Driving Championships It is no surprise that defending Grand Champion Eric Courville showed up with his game face on for the Louisiana Truck Driving Championships on March 29. He came and he conquered, scoring 391 points to reign supreme again. Read more...
03 Apr Industry Objects to Plan to Privatize Military Moves A plan to turn over responsibility for household-goods moves for military personnel to a single third-party transportation manager is running into opposition from industry leaders who say the idea is flawed and won’t rectify the problems U.S. Transportation Command said it wants to address. Read more...
03 Apr Let Congress Decide Privacy Safeguards for Autonomous Vehicles, 2020 Hopeful John Delaney Says WASHINGTON — Questions regarding the use of data collected from self-driving vehicles will need to be addressed by policymakers when they craft a regulatory framework that would govern the technology in the coming years, a former member of Congress and 2020 presidential aspirant said April 3. Read more...
03 Apr Canadian Oil Rally May Falter Amid Pipeline Delay, Deloitte Says The stubborn, sharp rise in Canadian heavy crude prices finally may falter later this year, when swelling output overwhelms a pipeline system that will be lacking a key project producers had counted on, according to Deloitte. Read more...
03 Apr Bison Transport Acquires H.O. Wolding as Canadian Firms Eye US Expansion Bison Transport Inc. acquired Amherst, Wis.-based H.O. Wolding Inc., a 320-truck dry van fleet, marking a further expansion by the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based trucking firm into the United States. Read more...
03 Apr Diesel Prices May Increase as Cargo Industry Makes 2020 Fuel Switch, Experts Say The looming adoption of a mandate that will require maritime vessels to burn cleaner fuel is projected to put upward pressure on diesel prices next year, but transportation experts are more concerned about how the change will affect the supply of diesel fuel for trucks. Read more...
03 Apr Trump Softens Position Toward Closing US-Mexico Border President Donald Trump on April 4 said he will delay closing the U.S.-Mexico border for one year, just days after it was announced he would seal the southern border as early as this week. Read more...
03 Apr ATA Launches Campaign to Promote Infrastructure Deal American Trucking Associations has formally launched its campaign in support of a federal infrastructure funding package. Read more...
03 Apr Trucker Tools Helps 3PL Choptank Corral Tech Holdouts Choptank, a third-party logistics service provider, says it recently incorporated a wider array of Trucker Tools, a system of applications, to more rapidly “shed” manual processes such as phone calls. Trucker Tools helps drivers and brokers track freight and bid on jobs. Read more...
03 Apr US Hails Progress in China Talks Amid Push to Close the Deal President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser touted progress in high-level talks with China, but cautioned that a final deal to end the trade war remains elusive as negotiations resumed in Washington. Read more...