23 Jan ATA Truck Tonnage Index Has Best Year in 20 Years Truck tonnage closed out 2018 on a 20-year high with an annual increase of 6.6%, American Trucking Associations announced. Read more...
23 Jan XPO Accepts Violation in Fatal Accident Involving Granite Slabs XPO Logistics has agreed to accept a serious violation and pay a fine of more than $10,000 in connection with a June 25 accident that claimed the lives of two workers. Read more...
23 Jan Cummins X12 Engine Available in Western Star 4700 Cummins Inc. announced its X12 engine, which weighs only 2,050 pounds, is available in Western Star 4700 straight trucks and tractors. Read more...
23 Jan Developers Seek to Advance Truck Platooning Through Higher Automation, Global Demonstrations WASHINGTON — Truck platooning has not yet advanced beyond the testing and development stage, but proponents and developers of the technology continue to explore ways to eventually deploy it in real-world freight operations. Read more...
23 Jan Despite Record Revenue, 2018 Kansas City Southern Earnings Fall Short of Expectations Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the Class 1 railroads in North America, reported record fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 financial results on Jan. 18. Read more...
23 Jan Autonomous Technology Promises Safety Benefits, TRB Speakers Say WASHINGTON — While the debut of automated vehicles in the marketplace remains years away, the technology already available has the potential of improving safety for commercial drivers, officials and experts at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board here said. Read more...
22 Jan Cloverleaf Cold Storage Enters Agreement to Merge with Zero Mountain Cold storage warehousing company Cloverleaf Cold Storage has entered into an agreement to merge with Zero Mountain Inc., a cold storage warehousing and transportation company serving customers in Arkansas, according to a Jan. 7 press release. Read more...
22 Jan Heartland Express Sees Profits Jump as Fleet Gets Smaller Heartland Express reported lower revenue but higher profits in the fourth quarter of 2018 as the company continues a program to shrink its fleet and re-establish itself as one of the nation’s most efficient truck operators. Read more...
22 Jan UPS Expands Keyless Apartment-Building Entry That Started in NYC United Parcel Service Inc. is expanding a keyless-entry system for package deliveries at apartment buildings after a successful test in New York and San Francisco. Read more...
22 Jan Diesel Falls for 14th Consecutive Week The U.S. average retail price of diesel dropped 1.1 cents to $2.965 a gallon for the week of Jan. 21, despite an increase in crude oil prices to $53 per barrel, or $3 higher than a week before. Read more...