Transport TopicsAutonomous technologies now drive significant change in trucking and freight transportation. Transport Topics autonomous coverage provides a comprehensive look at that change. It provides the latest details on deployment concepts such as advanced driver-assist systems, transfer hubs, teleoperations, platooning and off-road automation and latest analysis of the companies who are manufacturing, adopting and investing in these technologies. Readers can follow the impact such deployment has on everything from policy and infrastructure initiatives to highway congestion, fuel consumption, fleet management, driver management and business investment.
Canadian transportation firm TransForce Income Fund said Thursday it completed its acquisition of Westfreight Systems and Westfreight Holdings (U.S.A.). Terms were not disclosed.
January 4, 2007FMCSA to Offer Driver-Training Grants Groups Sue Army to Stop Trucking Nerve Gas Cakeboxx Says Doorless Container Prevents Unauthorized Access
January 3, 2007The Department of Transportation went from being very close to opening the border with Mexico to trucks, to preparing a pilot project to allow such trucks to enter the country, to having the border shuttered indefinitely to Mexican truck traffic.
January 3, 2007Diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. said late Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency has certified the companys medium- and heavy-duty truck engines for 2007.
January 2, 2007Fargo, N.D., trucking firm Lewis Transportation, which has employees in at least seven states, is shutting down after 43 years of operation, the Associated Press reported.
January 2, 2007