19 Feb Vanguard Truck Centers Adds Houston Location Vanguard Truck Centers, with a network of 20 sites in six states, announced it invested $23 million in a new facility in the Houston area, joining three others there. Read more...
19 Feb Penske Logistics Gives LTL Regional Award to Dayton Freight Lines Dayton Freight Lines has received the 2020 Less-Than-Truckload U.S. Regional Carrier Award from Penske Logistics. Read more...
19 Feb Torc Robotics Chooses AWS as Cloud Provider Torc Robotics announced it selected Amazon Web Services Inc. as its preferred cloud provider to handle the scale and speed needed for data transfer, storage and compute capacity as the company prepares to deploy its fleet of next-generation self-driving test trucks in New Mexico and Virginia. Read more...
19 Feb ATRG Expands Meisler Trailer Brand in St. Louis American Trailer Rental Group, a rental fleet approaching 16,000 units, announced the expansion of its Meisler Trailer Rental brand to the greater St. Louis market. Read more...
19 Feb Americold Reports Net Loss on Increased Revenue For Q4 2020 Temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation carrier Americold Realty Trust reported a net loss on increased revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020. Read more...
19 Feb How Consolidation Is Reshaping Trucking’s Technology Sector Consolidation has dramatically reshaped trucking’s technology market over the past decade, with dozens of software and telematics companies joining forces to create larger organizations with expanded capabilities and broader reach. Read more...
19 Feb Google Penalties Coming in May Google is promising to double down on its policy of penalizing poorly designed websites with lower rankings in search engine returns with its next update, slated for May. Read more...
19 Feb Extreme Winter Weather Causes Vaccine Shipping Delays WASHINGTON — Extreme winter weather has dealt the first major setback to the Biden administration’s planned swift rollout of coronavirus vaccines, delaying shipment of three days’ worth of shots, or about 6 million doses. Read more...
19 Feb Massachusetts Bond Bill Includes Funding for Roads, Bridges and Transit Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker recently signed a $16 billion transportation bond bill, which includes funding to modernize various modes of transportation. Read more...
19 Feb Apple in Discussions With Suppliers for Lidar Apple Inc. is in discussions with multiple suppliers of self-driving car sensors known as lidar, according to people familiar with the matter, a key milestone toward development of its first passenger vehicle. Read more...