Technology Improving APUs
When the fuel crisis of 2007-2008 hit, Covenant Transport, like virtually every other large carrier in North America, realized it needed to get its fuel consumption and costs under control. As with many fleets at…
Anheuser-Busch Deploying Electric Trucks
Anheuser-Busch soon will deploy 21 battery-electric trucks in California to showcase economic and environmental sustainable warehousing and distribution technology for fleets, according to industry reports. The brewing company is deploying trucks from BYD Auto, manufacturer…
Ports Will See Class 8 Electric Trucks
The busiest truck hub on the U.S. West Coast said that while major truck manufacturers and start-ups have made progress on battery-electric Class 8 trucks, the technology is still two years away at best from…
New App Connects Truck Drivers to Freight
Two former Amazon employees are trying to transform the $700 billion trucking industry with a startup called Convoy, which uses technology to connect truck drivers with companies that need to move freight. “What we do…
Daimler Targets Automated Driving
Daimler Trucks plans to focus its attention on automated driving, and as a result plans to pause testing of truck platooning, the company announced at the recent 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas…
Driver-less Trucks Won’t Arrive Soon
The advent of automated driving technology is poised to transform the trucking industry in the years and decades to come. However, many experts believe it is clear that autonomous trucks will not be ready to…
Labor, Silicon Valley at Odds Over Trucking
Jeff Baxter’s sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab in the hangar-like truck wash at Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop. Baxter…
Self-Driving Fleets Gain Traction
Technology has been the cause of many changes within a number industries, ranging from self-driving cars, online payments and autonomous workers at factories and fast food restaurants. While there has been a lot of research…
High-Tech Trucks May Face Legal Obstacles
Tesla, Otto and other companies have been developing driver-less vehicles for years, with Mercedez-Benz placing a semi-autonomous truck on the road in 2015. Tech leader and financiers alike are confident that self-driving trucks will become…
Daimler Delivers Electronic Truck
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) in December delivered the first vehicle in its newly created “electric innovation fleet’’ to Penske Truck Leasing in Carson, Calif.. The delivery was the result of a nine-month collaboration between…
Volvo Introducing All-Electric Trucks
Volvo Trucks is hoping to electrify California. The company plans to introduce all-electric Volvo regional-haul demonstrators next year in the Golden State, operating in distribution, regional-haul and drayage operations. Volvo said sales of the VNR Electric…
ELDs Simplifying Truck Dispatching
The days of dispatchers spending much of their time attempting to track down drivers are history. Electronic logging devices (ELDs) and other modern technologies have turned today’s dispatchers more into data analysts…
