01 Dec Warehouses Are Getting Bigger, Taller, Faster Those boxes piling up on your doorstep over the holidays don’t ship from Santa’s workshop. As Americans spend more money shopping online, real estate developers are sinking record amounts of money into new warehouse space, building bigger, taller structures to meet the needs of e-commerce — and the robots that help it along. Read more...
30 Nov Toyota Plans California Fuel Cell Plant to Make Power, Hydrogen Toyota Motor Corp. said it will build a renewable fuel-cell power-generation plant, plus a hydrogen fueling station, to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach. Read more...
30 Nov Stakeholders Respond to DOT Request for Comment on Rules, Regulations From burdensome and outdated record-keeping to hazardous materials handling to an electronic logging device mandate soon to go into effect, truckers and an array of transportation-related trade associations have handed federal regulators a list for tweaking or eliminating dozens of rules and regulations. Read more...
30 Nov Congress to Rely on Stopgap Funding Bill, Speaker Ryan Says Amid recent failed attempts by party leaders to negotiate funding parameters for fiscal 2018, Congress will opt for a short-term measure designed to avoid a government shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Nov. 30. Read more...
30 Nov Editorial: Help Wanted Recruiting good commercial drivers can often feel like an uphill battle for many trucking companies, and the hill could get even steeper in the year ahead. Read more...
30 Nov DOT to Require Testing for Synthetic Opioids Beginning Jan. 1 Beginning Jan. 1, truck drivers being administered random pre-employment and post-accident drug tests will be screened for four additional synthetic opioids, the highly addictive drugs that likely will require medical experts to consider prescriptions that balance pain mitigation with safety performance. Read more...
30 Nov TravelCenters of America Announces Executive Changes TravelCenters of America announced President and CEO Thomas O’Brien will retire and has resigned effective Dec. 31. Read more...
30 Nov Tank-Truck Carrier Patriot Transportation Suffers Steep Decline in Profits Tank-truck carrier Patriot Transportation Holding reported a sizeable decline in profits in its fiscal fourth quarter directly tied to hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the lose of a key customer. Read more...
30 Nov Used Truck Sales Climb in October Sales of used heavy-duty trucks in October climbed 37% from a year ago as some outlets showed signs of rebounding to post higher volumes and the average price rose slightly, ACT Research Co. reported. Read more...
30 Nov Navistar Ohio Union Fights Loss of State Truck Contract Members of Springfield, Ohio's UAW Local 402 have started a letter-writing campaign to Ohio Gov. John Kasich and state lawmakers after Navistar lost its years-long hold on a contract to provide trucks for the Ohio Department of Transportation. Read more...