13 Feb Cartoon Caption Classic: Week Two Results In Week Two of the Cartoon Caption Classic, two of our three top seeds were eliminated as voters trimmed our overall classic field from 12 competitors to just six. Here's a look at the Week Two cartoon, captions and voting results: Read more...
10 Feb Autonomous Vehicles to Run on Data The financial arm of computing firm Intel is investing $250 million in autonomous vehicle technology, targeting three areas that the company's leader believes will place Intel at the forefront of an approaching wave of change in transportation. Read more...
10 Feb Facebook for the Workplace: A Private Social Network for Your Trucking Business Fans of Facebook - and there are more than 1.7 billion of them - now have a near-mirror image of the social network they can use for their businesses. Dubbed Workplace by Facebook, the new application offers all the familiar features that have made Facebook the world's most popular digital meeting place. The primary difference: Workplace enables businesses to use the Facebook environment to create an entirely private social network for their employees and trusted trading partners. Read more...
10 Feb Connected Vehicles, Platooning Coming Into Focus WASHINGTON - Connected vehicles and platooning are two of the major technological developments coming soon to trucking, and manufacturers, fleets, regulators and academics are wrestling with the details now. Read more...
10 Feb Fuel Cards Advance Trucking companies today are doing much more with fuel cards than purchasing diesel. As card issuers deploy technology to connect new services to their cards, fleets are using them to better control fuel spending, gather data on their operations and even book hotel reservations. Read more...
10 Feb Cab Cameras Gain 'Machine Vision' The video safety systems in truck cabs are becoming smarter. Rather than simply recording video of events on the road, some of the latest systems have gained the ability to "see" the truck's environment and draw conclusions about driver behavior. Read more...
10 Feb Drive for the Prize As the trucking industry continues to grapple with high driver turnover, some carriers are turning to performance-based rewards and technology-enabled "gamification" programs to increase driver retention and boost engagement. Read more...
10 Feb UPS Escalates Reliance on Solar Energy UPS Inc. announced a significant escalation of its investment in solar energy as an owner/operator of solar assets starting with at least eight of its facilities in the United States. Read more...
10 Feb Infrastructure Funding Increases Needed at Seaports, Ports Association Says Infrastructure proposals congressional Republican leaders and the Trump administration come up with this year should prioritize funding for improvement projects along seaports, the group representing the country's ports indicated this week. Read more...
10 Feb CSX Is Said to Hit Obstacle in CEO Negotiations With Harrison CSX Corp. and Hunter Harrison have discussed a three-year contract for the railroad veteran to take over as CEO, but the deal has bogged down over details on how to support his plan to turn around the company, according to a person familiar with the situation. Read more...