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…
Michelin Adding RFID to Truck Tires
Michelin North America Inc. has begun building radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into its commercial truck tires and retreads that can help users track the tire throughout its lifecycle, including retreading. Initially the sensors’ data…
Firms Partner on Charging Stations
Greenlots, a global provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging software and solutions, will collaborate with Volvo Trucks to deploy charging infrastructure for electric trucks operating out of warehouses in Southern California, company officials said…
2 Firms to Develop Electric Trucks
CityFreighter and XPO Sales have agreed to jointly pursue development and sales of electric trucks for the last mile, company officials said. The partnership includes the signing of a letter of intent…
Peterbilt Testing Opposed-Piston Engines
A pair of heavy duty, opposed-piston engines will be produced for an emissions-reduction project in California, officials with the program said last month. The two 10.6L, 450-horsepower engines designed by Achates Power will run in…
Volvo & Mack Expand Remote Programming
Volvo Trucks and Mack Trucks have announced expanded remote programming capabilities for all of their truck customers in North America with 2017 greenhouse gas emissions regulation-compliant engines that are equipped with factory-installed connectivity hardware. According…
