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Lawmakers Back $8 Billion for Electric USPS Vehicles

House lawmakers advanced language authorizing $8 billion for the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric vehicles as the agency modernizes its aging fleet.

May 13, 2021

Polly Trottenberg Touts Biden鈥檚 Climate Change Agenda

President Joe Biden鈥檚 $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan would pave the way for programs that would address the impact severe weather events are having on certain ports, bridges, railways and transit systems, a senior transportation official told senators May 13.

May 13, 2021

Disruptions Add More Stress to Already Strained Capacity Market

Already stressed capacity is facing new pressure as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and demand increases.

May 13, 2021

Forklift Driving Becomes Desk Job in Phantom-Mitsubishi Deal

Phantom Auto, a California-based startup focusing on remote vehicle operation, has struck a deal to provide logistics equipment heavyweight Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. with software that enables forklifts to be operated remotely from thousands of miles away.

May 13, 2021

Colonial Pipeline Restarts Operations, but Normalcy Days Away

Colonial Pipeline, the nation鈥檚 largest fuel pipeline, restarted operations May 12, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.

May 12, 2021

Vigillo Founder Steve Bryan's New Tech Company Measures Carrier Reputations

A new data service aims to help motor carriers improve and maintain their reputations as safe operators before they ever have to face a plaintiff attorney鈥檚 wrath in a courtroom.

May 12, 2021

VW Plans to Have Autonomous Microbus Ready for Roads in 2025

Volkswagen AG plans to offer a highly automated version of the hippie-era microbus it鈥檚 reviving as an electric van as the carmaker commercializes self-driving technology along with startup Argo AI.

May 12, 2021

Volvo Sees Three Paths to Decarbonize Trucking

Volvo Group expects a near-term convergence of biofuel, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric-powered trucks as the industry, in the U.S. and in Europe, begins to adopt transformative and disruptive technologies aimed at eliminating harmful emissions and 鈥渓eapfrogging鈥 current practices.

May 11, 2021

Trucking Students Learn to Watch for Human Trafficking

TIFTON, Ga. 鈥 Before a commercial truck driver graduates from Southern Regional Technical College, the student must prove that they are ready to handle the demands of driving a commercial vehicle. One lesson, however, has little to do with operating a tractor-trailer, and everything to do with making the country safer for some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

May 11, 2021

Some Gas Pumps Run Dry Due to Panic Buying

Motorists across a broad swath of the East Coast and South are struggling to find gasoline and diesel as filling stations run dry amid the unprecedented pipeline disruption caused by a criminal hack.

May 11, 2021