27 Mar Canadian Company Aims to Add Sobriety Tests to Steering Wheels A Canadian company that makes alcohol-detection devices attached to steering wheels of school buses hopes to expand to North American trucking companies. Read more...
27 Mar Manhattan Drivers Could Be Facing $11.52 Toll to Drive City Streets London did it. So did Singapore and Stockholm. Now New York may be coming around to congestion pricing. Read more...
27 Mar I.D. Systems Acquires Pointer Telocation for $140 Million I.D. Systems Inc., a New Jersey-based tracking technology company, has acquired Pointer Telocation Ltd., an Israeli provider of telematics and mobile internet of things services, in a $140 million deal, the companies report. Read more...
27 Mar January Trade Gap Narrows as Imports From China Plummet The U.S. trade deficit pulled back in January from the widest level in a decade as imports from China plunged, suggesting American companies had been rushing shipments the prior month to beat an expected tariff boost. Read more...
27 Mar Oil Slips as Growth in US Supplies Feeds Into Market Anxieties Oil prices dipped as an unexpectedly high jump in U.S. crude supplies unnerved a market already worried about weakening global demand. Read more...
27 Mar Louisiana Driver Competition Kicks Off Road to NTDC The road to the National Truck Driving Championships is about to get underway as Louisiana kicks off the five-month season March 29. Read more...
27 Mar Ports' TEU Volume Cools in February After Red-Hot 2018 The nation’s biggest ports are off to a mixed start compared with 2018’s record year, showing slower 20-foot-equivalent container volume as the economy gradually slows and with U.S.-China trade talks set to resume shortly. Read more...
27 Mar MIQ Logistics Agrees to Buyout by Spanish Firm Noatum Global freight forwarder MIQ Logistics will become part of Noatum Logistics, a unit of Noatum Maritime Services in Madrid, according to a definitive agreement announced March 21. Read more...
26 Mar Truck Parking Data Systems Top ATRI’s Research Priorities List The American Transportation Research Institute’s recently unveiled list of research priorities for 2019 covers an array of topical issues, ranging from truck parking to tolls. Read more...
26 Mar DTNA Opens Detroit Connect to Third-Party Providers Daimler Trucks North America announced it has opened its proprietary Detroit Connect platform to third-party telematics service providers. Read more...