Tagged: TruckingIndustry

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Trucking Dominates Freight Market

Trucking dominates freight market in 28th edition of the Transportation Statistics Annual Report. Trucks transported 12 billion tons in 2019, or 67% of total domestic freight volume, about 10 times more than that of rail…

Embark and Knight-Swift launch transfer program

Embark and Knight-Swift Launch Program

Embark and Knight-Swift launch program for truck transfers using autonomous technologies First public initiative where a carrier directly owns and operates a truck equipped with Embark’s automated driving software Embark Trucks and Knight-Swift Transportation...

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Diesel Conversion ‘Daunting’

The prospect of converting the nation’s trucking fleet from diesel to battery-electric power in order to meet carbon emissions reduction goals presents several major challenges, according to newly released research. The American Transportation Research Institute…

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Senate Bill Addresses Truck Parking

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would address problems with truck parking, authorizing $755 million in grant funding to expand commercial truck parking capacity. The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act was introduced Dec. 1…

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Trucking Costs Rose Last Year

The total marginal cost of trucking grew by 12.7% in 2021 to $1.855 per mile, the highest on record, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) 2022 update to “An Analysis of the Operational…

2022 ATA Management Conference & Exhibition

Registration Open for 2022 ATA MCE

Registration Open for 2022 ATA Management Conference & Exhibition in San Diego, Calif., October 22-25. This year’s event, themed Investing in Our Future will take place October 22-25 at the San Diego Convention Center and…

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Closures Rising For Small Truckers

Closures rising for small truckers. One of the hallmarks of the pandemic as it relates to trucking has been the unprecedented growth in the number of new, mostly small, for-hire trucking companies. Since July 2020…

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Fuel Driving Out Truckers

Fuel driving out truckers as survey shows rising cost of fuel present a mountainous climb to overcome for small carriers. Many small carriers who entered the trucking industry in 2020-21 are finding today’s challenges too

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