17 Apr As Trade Grows, Port of Oakland Gets Shipping Line to Vietnam Boosted by extraordinary trade growth with Vietnam, the Port of Oakland will offer a direct line to the Southeast Asian nation. Pacific International Lines will operate the service using vessels that can carry up to 11,900 20-foot equivalent units. Read more...
17 Apr Virginia Lawmakers Approve Gov. Ralph Northam’s Funding Plan for I-81 Virginia’s General Assembly has approved Gov. Ralph Northam’s fundraising suggestions for Interstate 81 improvements. Read more...
17 Apr FMCSA, NHTSA Should Study Side Underride Guards, GAO Says A federal government watchdog study has recommended that federal regulators take steps to collect better data on underride guard crashes and share information with police departments in identifying underride crashes. Read more...
17 Apr Nikola Rolls Out Trucks for Zero-Emissions Future SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Nikola Motor Co. CEO Trevor Milton, 28 months after unveiling a prototype Class 8 sleeper, presented to about 2,000 attendees and a global audience watching online two heavy-duty trucks and three other specialty vehicles he said are ready to spark a zero-emissions future. Read more...
17 Apr Mapillary Assists Transportation Agencies With Safety Mapillary, a street-level imagery platform, has announced that photologs with 40 million images of about 270,000 miles of road data have been uploaded to its system to improve safety in the commercial and commuter transportation sectors. Read more...
16 Apr Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Touts $4.5 Billion Infrastructure Plan Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently addressed thousands of township officials in an attempt to rally local support for his $4.5 billion infrastructure plan. Read more...
16 Apr FMCSA Grants SmartDrive Five-Year Exemption Regarding ADAS Camera Placement Federal trucking regulators on April 15 granted SmartDrive System Inc. a five-year exemption to allow an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) camera to be mounted lower on truck windshields than currently is permitted. Read more...
16 Apr March Trailer Orders Fall U.S. trailer orders in March slipped to the lowest level in nearly two years, landing in the 15,000-units range, ACT Research reported. Read more...
16 Apr Americold Agrees to Acquire Cloverleaf Cold Storage Americold Logistics has agreed to buy Cloverleaf Cold Storage for $1.24 billion, a move that ramps up a trend toward consolidation in the refrigerated warehousing sector. Read more...
16 Apr Cargo Transporters Promotes Dennis Dellinger to CEO Cargo Transporters Inc. announced the promotion of Dennis Dellinger to CEO, along with several other management changes at the Claremont, N.C.-based dry van truckload carrier. Read more...