Tag: trucks

March 29, 2019

Daimler Trucks has agreed to acquire a majority stake in autonomous vehicle pioneer Torc Robotics and will join forces with the technology firm to develop highly automated trucks for the U.S. market. Financial terms were not disclosed. The truck manufacturer […]

January 28, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Paccar Inc. CEO Ron Armstrong said the trucking industry is moving toward ever cleaner and more energy-efficient vehicles and will adopt increasingly advanced automated driving technology to assist drivers. “The future of the industry is very dynamic, […]

November 15, 2018

Cargo owners have been warned that there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to risk management to protect against rising theft. Speaking as the TT Club and BSI Supply Chain Services published the first edition of the joint 2018 Semi-Annual Global Cargo […]

August 7, 2018

FOR THE DEVELOPERS of self-driving vehicles, semi-trucks are a potential low-hanging fruit. Although big rigs are imposingly, intimidatingly huge, they also predominantly run on freeways and other fixed routes that are simpler to automate. Fleet managers are easier to convince […]

May 24, 2018

There’s a clock that regulates supply chains, and lately it is losing time, not just by a beat, but hours and days. That throws off sales forecasts and orders, lengthens transit times, and leads to missed deliveries and a pervasive […]

March 21, 2018

Uber Freight has introduced a discount program that provides savings on fuel, parts and even new and used truck purchases to carriers using its load-matching mobile app. Offers available through the Uber Freight Plus program include a fuel card provided […]

March 7, 2018

The strength of oil consumption took analysts by surprise last year, and played a big role in crude’s recovery to a three-year high in January. Demand this year could even turn out to be “way in excess” of 2017’s exuberant […]

December 11, 2017

The transition to cloud-based computing in the trucking industry is accelerating as carriers realize the cost savings and operational efficiencies that can be achieved, technology experts said. That migration to the cloud — which refers to using remote servers hosted […]

May 18, 2017

IN ITS QUEST to dominate transportation, Uber dreams of the day when everyone gets around in flying cars and self-driving taxis. But its plan doesn’t hinge entirely on a robo-revolution. Today, the delinquent decacorn of Silicon Valley announced Uber Freight, a bid to bring […]

March 20, 2017

Fleet managers are relying more on high-tech shop equipment, technology-savvy technicians, efficient shop practices and flexible preventive maintenance scheduling in efforts to rein in the rising maintenance costs inherent with the complexity of today’s trucks. The challenge is steep. Average […]

March 14, 2017

U.S. retail sales of Class 8 trucks in February fell 29.5% from a year earlier, as all truck makers posted double-digit declines, WardsAuto.com reported. Sales hit 11,200, compared with 15,876 in the 2016 period. The last time sales rose year-over-year […]

July 11, 2016

AS THE CONVOY traveled down Interstate 69, regular Michigan motorists might have not believed they were driving next to the future of warfare. But for all their humdrum khaki looks, these were platooning, semi-autonomous army trucks, moving as one organism. […]