14 May Amazon Says It Will Back Its Employees Who Quit Jobs to Start Delivery Businesses NEW YORK — Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job, and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages. Read more...
14 May PrePass Adds Safety Alerts to Bypass App PrePass announced an enhancement to its weigh station-bypass app that gives truck drivers roadway safety notifications at no extra cost to PrePass users. Read more...
14 May OEMs Offer Over-the-Air Software Updates as Latest Advance in Truck Maintenance Truck manufacturers increasingly are enabling fleets to update truck software and programming parameters “over the air” — an innovation that is saving days of downtime. Read more...
13 May Transportation Experts, Government Leaders Stress Human Factor of Infrastructure WASHINGTON — As cities continue to grow and infrastructure rapidly incorporates more technology, former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx cautioned industry leaders and experts to remember the humans who will be affected. Read more...
13 May Diesel Drops 1.1¢ to $3.16 a Gallon; Oil Slides to $61 a Barrel The U.S. average retail price of diesel fell 1.1 cents to $3.160 a gallon. Oil prices slipped to $61 a barrel as the United States and China imposed higher tariffs on the other’s goods, which chilled the outlook for demand. Read more...
13 May Trump Says He’ll Meet China’s Xi Amid Deepening Rift Over Trade President Donald Trump plans to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at next month’s G-20 summit, an encounter that could prove pivotal in a deepening divide over trade that is sending stocks tumbling and clouding the outlook for the global economy. Read more...
13 May Steny Hoyer Says Infrastructure Package Hinges on Presidential Support WASHINGTON— The success of a federal infrastructure package will require the full and energetic support of President Donald Trump, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, said during an Infrastructure Week kickoff event May 13. Read more...
13 May GTI Acquires Jetco to Establish US Operational Platform GTI Transport Solutions Inc., a provider of open-deck, specialized and overdimensional freight services, has acquired Jetco, a Houston-based carrier, according to a news release by GTI and its parent company, Novacap of Montreal. Read more...
13 May Keith Crook Earns Georgia Title in Weekend of Firsts The Georgia Truck Driving Championships held in Buford May 11-12 was “a wonderful celebration of the industry and a ‘family reunion,' " according to Emily Crane of the Georgia Motor Trucking Association. Keith Crook of UPS Freight took the Grand Champion title as well as the 5-Axle crown. Read more...
13 May Longtime Competitor Timothy Whitley Claims Grand Champion Title in North Carolina The North Carolina Truck Driving Championships crowned Timothy Whitley as the Grand Champion in Raleigh on May 11. Whitley, a driver for Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., placed first in the Straight Truck division. Read more...