A Freightliner Cascadia. (Daimler AG) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a preliminary evaluation into a series of complaints involving automatic emergency braking system errors on certain Freightliner Cascadia trucks. The announcement comes at a time in which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and NHTSA have launched a proposed rule mandating the ...more
President Joe Biden and Julie Su at the White House on March 1. (Susan Walsh/AP) Nearly three dozen Republican senators called on President Joe Biden to withdraw from consideration his nominee to lead the Department of Labor. Amid pushback from the freight sector, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), his leadership team and other top Republicans ...more
Rising fuel price was the largest driver of the increase in the cost of trucking operations in 2022 .(Wirestock/Getty Images) Rising wages for drivers, and the increasing price of insurance, diesel fuels, maintenance costs and other factors, pushed up the cost of operating a truck by 21.3% in 2022, when measured against the same time ...more
(Natrice MIller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Tribune Content Agency) In contract negotiations between UPS Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the two sides have come to agreement on dozens of matters to clear the way for talks on pay and other major issues. The Teamsters have voted to authorize a strike against UPS if the two ...more
The PRO Act would pursue certain revisions to definitions of an employee, supervisor and employer. (Rapeepat Pornsipak/Getty Images) A Senate panel on June 21 approved legislation that would seek to update federal classifications for workers. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2023 ...more
Farmers picking cabbage. The American Farm Bureau Federation expressed disappointment in EPA’s final rule. (American Farm Bureau Federation) Hours after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule June 21 establishing biofuel volumes in its Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, an outcry was raised by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and others that those standards ...more
Skypod robots are seen in the service room of Exotec's headquarters in Atlanta. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Tribune Content Agency) Dozens of robots scurry about a warehouse in Atlanta in a choreographed dance to organize products among rows of identical bins. Each robot acts as a worker bee within a larger hive, scuttling along concrete ...more
A truck driver is facing multiple felony charges after getting distracted while driving and causing a deadly wreck last summer. The accident happened back in June 2022, and resulted in two deaths and left five injured. A plea agreement for 27-year-old truck driver Chasen Thompson was accepted in court this week. According to WNDU News, the ...more
A video featuring an older truck driver recently went viral, with thousands of people sharing words of respect for the man’s work ethic and skill. TikTok user th3asphaltcowboy shared video of the truck driver at work preparing his vehicle less than a week ago, and in that time, the video has garnered 3.6 million views.@th3asphaltcowboy ...more
On Thursday, a major self-driving truck technology company announced a new partnership to launch the “world’s first trucking company dedicated to autonomous freight transportation. On June 22, Kodiak Robotics Inc. announced that Denver-headquartered logistics platform Loadsmith ordered 800 self-driving trucks to build the “Loadsmith Freight Network (LFN), the first-ever freight transportation company built specifically for ...more
