A UPS driver puts his seat belt. The company and its workers are buckling up for a potential tense week of negotiations with a contract expiration deadline of July 31. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) A potential strike by 340,000 unionized workers at UPS Inc. threatens to unravel progress in tackling two of the U.S. economy’s biggest ...more
FedEx Freight driver Paul Swan is all smiles as he displays the grand champion trophy with Capt. John Hahn of the Colorado State Police. (Colorado Motor Carriers Association) It is a proven recipe to make commercial drivers win at safety tournaments. At his state competition in June, Colorado’s Paul Swan of FedEx Freight understood how ...more
President Biden and executives from firms committed to artificial intelligence safeguards meet with the media at the White House. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca via Bloomberg News) President Joe Biden said the U.S. must guard against threats from artificial intelligence as he detailed new company safeguards and promised additional government actions on the emerging technology. “These commitments are ...more
Amazon creates what it calls a “palm signature” based on someone’s palm and underlying veins, and the images are encrypted in the Amazon Web Services Cloud. (Amazon.com) Customers at Amazon’s Whole Foods Market stores will soon be able to pay for their groceries with a wave of their hand. Amazon is adding its Amazon One ...more
A rendering of the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub. (Fortescue Future Industries) Truck maker Nikola agreed to sell its Phoenix Hydrogen Hub project to partner Fortescue Future Industries for $24 million, the companies said. Nikola teamed up with Australia-based FFI to develop the Buckeye, Ariz., project, with a memorandum of understanding signed in January. FFI is a ...more
(Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. via PowerPoint) Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. on July 20 reported that earnings dropped 71% year-over-year in the second quarter. The Phoenix-based truckload motor carrier posted net income attributable to the company of $63.3 million, or 39 cents a diluted share, for the three months ending June 30. That compared with $219.5 ...more
Law enforcement agencies in eleven states will partner for a single day effort to crack down on speeding vehicles. On Wednesday, July 26, law enforcement agencies will take part in a Speed Awareness campaign. During the single day effort, state and local police officers will be on patrol for speed violations by passenger vehicle drivers, ...more
A lawsuit has been filed against three trucking companies involved in a recent crash between an Amtrak train and a car hauler. The accident happened on Friday, July 14th after the car hauler got stuck on train tracks at Canal Avenue North, just south of US 92 in Lakeland, Florida. According to WTSP 10 News, the ...more
This week, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) performed a raid on a distribution center as part of a crackdown on an interstate marijuana trafficking operation. OBN says that a warehouse in Oklahoma City was raided this week because the facility was “being used as a distribution hub for a criminal organization trafficking millions of ...more
Heartbreaking video shows a driver releasing his frustration after learning that his pension is at risk amidst trucking company Yellow Corp.’s financial woes. On July 15, Yellow withheld pension and healthcare payments totaling $50 million and now will be booted out of the Central States Pension Fund on July 23, according to The Hill. Teamsters ...more
