Transportation companies are finding new ways to scale their businesses without having to invest in equipment and facilities. Technology is fueling a growth in non-asset transportation and logistics by helping companies solve more complex problems for their customers and increasing the efficiency and speed of freight transactions…read more
Most autonomous efforts in trucking today, including platooning testing and Freightliner’s 2015 Inspiration concept truck, involve Level II automation (partial automation) as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers. These trucks simultaneously use a combination of advanced driver assistance systems to control steering, acceleration and braking. The driver is still required to maintain situational awareness of road conditions and […]
After barely two years, app-based freight matching service Convoy on Tuesday announced it has expanded its network nationwide. Convoy has grown its footprint from the Peugeot Sound-area, to the Pacific Northwest, to west of Rockies and is now offering loads coast-to-coast with more than 100,000 trucks and drivers on the network.
Last month, autonomous truck upstart Starsky Robotics became the first player in the self-driving truck game to drive in fully autonomous mode on a public road without a person in the cab. A remote driver more than 100 miles from small country road near
The Georgia Department of Transportation is currently in the planning stages for trucks-only lanes south of Atlanta on I-75, which the state says are intended to reduce freight congestion around the city. The proposed lanes would allow trucks and other commercial vehicles to travel in barrier-separated lanes from four-wheel traffic. The preliminary proposal has the lanes going […]
Action in four trucking-related crimes has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General and the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, including drug testing fraud, illegal transport of hazardous materials, a driver imprisoned following a fatal crash and a former DOT employee sentenced for bank fraud.
Not much beyond what has previously been reported here is known about Tesla’s electric Semi, but company founder CEO Elon Musk certainly has high hopes for truck. During the company’s earnings call this week, Musk told analysts he expects to sell 100,000 units or more annually by 2022.
