Listed below are most popular news stories about trucking industry.
There is no shortage of media chatter about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence (AI), and what it means for individuals and businesses the world over. We wanted to distill that down to five areas we’re seeing AI impact the trucking industry: autonomous trucks, safety and compliance, dispatch and routing, fraud detection and prevention, and workflow automations.
Owner-operator Gary Buchs had an interesting experience around the margins and at the center of discussions and seminars at the Truckload Carriers Association’s big conference in Las Vegas in March.
Evaluating any given load’s value, it’s crucial not only to consider costs incurred to haul the freight on a per-mile basis, but also in relation to time. Fixed costs like insurance, the truck payment and others happen whether an owner-operator is physically moving a load or not, and must be accounted for. Many owners also do not consider their own personal compensation for the operating task as part of those fixed costs.
Battery electric trucking is an almost $1 trillion proposition, and that doesn't include the cost of acquisition for the actual trucks, according to a report released Tuesday by the Clean Freight Coalition (CFC), an alliance of truck transportation stakeholders whose founding members include the American Trucking Associations and Truckload Carriers Association, among others.
Plug Power Inc. surged the most in three years after the hydrogen company said it’s getting close to finalizing a $1.6 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department, and it’s cutting spending to shore up the balance sheet.
Landstar System Inc. has started construction on a new field operations center in Crawfordsville, Ind., the company announced Jan. 18.
Civil courts in Georgia and Pennsylvania have tied as the nation’s top “Judicial Hellholes” listed in a new 2023-24 report, primarily due to large nuclear verdicts, ethically questionable events and court orders the report viewed as severely biased.
Fleet telematics provider Samsara Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit alleging that competitor Motive Technologies Inc. has for years covertly stolen its technology patents and adopted them as its own.
The new Volvo VNL is packaged into four exterior and interior trim levels with six cab configurations, each designed to fit customers’ preference, brand identity and operational use, according to the company. (Volvo Trucks North America)
It was late into 2023 when Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) first addressed the U.S. House of Representatives in his new role as Speaker of the House, but in his new job Johnson hit the ground running. Somewhat out of necessity
