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Self-driving trucks are coming. The potential benefits to highway safety and freight efficiency, combined with heavy investments in vehicle automation by truck makers and suppliers, are making it increasingly clear that the advent of semi-autonomous trucks on the nation’s highways has become less a question of “if” than of “when.”

Perhaps no technology has captured so much attention so quickly in the trucking industry as automated driving and platooning systems.

Wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communication is playing an increasingly important role in the development of more advanced vehicle automation and driver-assist features. A possible federal mandate of the technology could accelerate that movement.

As autonomous-driving technology continues to advance, one open question is whether this path eventually could lead to fully unmanned trucks traveling down the road.

Progistics Distribution, a third-party logistics firm based in Oakland, California, has launched an app to assist businesses with last mile delivery.

Here's the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill, the last week before Congress takes its summer recess. 

Phillip Zaroor, founder and president of tire pressure monitoring system firm Advantage PressurePro, died June 19. He was 67.