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C.R. England announces autonomous partnership

The CCJ Top 250 carrier will deliver Tyson Foods products between Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, using Kodiak autonomous trucks. Also: Utah paper company gets state's first Volvo VNR Electric; XPO names new COO; Alaska driving school seeks ELDT exemption.

April 20, 2023

C.R. England Kodiak truck

Safety & Compliance

California driverless truck ban passes committee

More than 4,250 motorists were killed on California roads in 2021 and more than 10% of crashes involved a large truck.

April 20, 2023

cab of a driverless truck

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Fat fingers and rules of thumb

Combined with hours of service limitations, the freight hauled per-truck and per-driver has been effectively capped for decades.

April 12, 2023

FedEx triple trailers

Highway thru technology hell

I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the biggest challenges facing the array of new trucking technologies is that the developers really don’t grasp that trucks crash and need to be repaired.

March 22, 2023

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The dangers of over-promising and under-delivering autonomous trucks

The transportation sector is an example of an industry that may be over-promising and under-delivering on the concept of putting autonomous vehicles on the nation's open highways.

March 20, 2023

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Safety & Compliance

California autonomous vehicle testing leaps ahead while leaving trucking behind

The California Department of Motor Vehicles reported a significant jump in autonomous vehicle testing sans Class 3-8 trucks and vans, which has industry experts questioning the overall value of their data.

March 17, 2023

Autonomous trucks from Daimler subsidiary Torc Robotics have been busy testing in southwestern states save for California where Class 3 - 8 autonomous vehicles aren't welcome.

California inching closer to driverless truck ban

California lawmakers are eying a bill that would impose a de facto ban on autonomous trucks in the state by requiring a human operator behind the wheel.

March 15, 2023

Driverless truck cab

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Gatik expands its driverless middle mile service in Texas

Gatik counts Walmart and Kroger among its autonomous trucking customers.

March 15, 2023

Gatik Kroger trucks

Freedom Freight adding intermodal business through Savannah

Freight Solutions, is launching new intermodal services. Also: AV industry outlines policy recommendations to Congress, DOT; AAA reports public fear of AVs growing; battery electric truck start up Xos Thursday introduced its 2023 battery-electric Stepvan.

March 13, 2023

2023 Xos Stepvan

Artificial intelligence robot gag reel is a much needed reprieve

From robots to route optimization and self-driving capabilities, artificial intelligence is coming on strong in trucking, but as a blooper video from Boston Dynamics makes clear, there's still plenty of work to be done.

February 23, 2023

What goes up, must come down and that includes a robot at Boston Dynamics that took on and eventually conquered a scaffold obstacle course of sorts. Videos below show a gag reel and the scene where the robot emerges victorious.

First carrier joins Volvo Autonomous Solutions reservation program

Ascend Dedicated – formerly Dedicated Transportation Solutions, which Ascend acquired last year – will pick up customer loads and transport them to V.A.S. hubs in Dallas and Houston, Texas.

February 22, 2023

Ascend VAS partnership truck

ZF set to debut driver assistance platform on Kenworth, Peterbilt trucks

Paccar will become the first North American OEM to deploy ZF's driver-assistance technology on a commercial vehicle platform.

February 22, 2023

Peterbilt instrument panel

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Plus lands OEM partner for its autonomous truck upfit

Plus' autonomous driving suite finds a global partner and should hit the U.S. market as factory-fit standard equipment next year.

February 22, 2023

FMCSA seeks more feedback on regs related to autonomous trucks

For the second time, FMCSA is asking for public feedback on how the agency should approach certain regulations as they relate to the deployment of autonomous trucks. Also: ELD removed from device registry; Freightliner, Love's partner for service; more.

February 1, 2023

Aurora autonomous truck

Pronto focusing more on off-road autonomy as on-highway software challenges remain

Though strides have been made in autonomous driving technology, software still "can't generalize and predict" as well as developers had hoped, said Pronto Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Ognen Stojanovski.

January 31, 2023

Pronto self-driving trucks

Former USA Truck boss joins autonomous truck startup

As CEO, James Reed oversaw the sale of USA Truck to German transportation firm DB Schenker.

January 19, 2023

California reconsidering its unfriendly autonomous trucking regs?

California has permitted public testing of autonomous commercial vehicles trucks since 2019, but there is a 10,000 pound weight limit.

January 10, 2023

Aurora Innovation and Schneider National are conducting a commercial pilot to haul freight for Schneider’s customers with the Aurora Driver, Aurora’s autonomous technology between Dallas and Houston.

Autonomous tech companies tackle tire problems in absence of a driver

Among the concerns with truly driverless trucks is how it would safely travel on slick and wet roads, or handle a sudden tire failure, when a person isn't onboard to judge and compensate accordingly.

January 10, 2023

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Chief Financial Officer Chris Wikoff noted that last year, average truck count in Werner's One-Way division, where ECM operated, was 2,386, a 10% decrease year-over-year.

ECM Transport future in question amid Werner’s One-Way reorg

Werner paid $142.4 million in 2021 for an 80% stake in regional carriers ECM Transport and Motor Carrier Services of Pennsylvania.

Founded in 2012, NHH Services provides specialized transportation and project management services throughout the United States and Canada, with expertise in heavy haul, flatbed, general freight, and complex cargo movements.

Bennett Family of Companies acquires Indiana fleet

FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs speaks at TCA Truckload 2026.

FMCSA boss: 'We're going to bite off more than we can chew'

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Driver churn costs fleets $13K, report shows. Is tech helping or hurting?

Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Wednesday introduced the Dalilah Law–legislation that would require states to take specific measures to get illegal alien truck drivers off America’s roads to receive federal Department of Transportation funding.

Trump's Dalilah Law introduced into Senate, DOT funding tied to state compliance

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