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2021 Top 10 Stories Cover Array of Issues as COVID Still Casts Shadow

Here are the 10 most-read stories on the Transports Topics website in 2021, based on Google Analytics.

December 31, 2021

Texas Regulator Closes Draft Gas-Winterization Loophole

Texas’s top oil and gas regulator voted Nov. 30 to more clearly define who will be at the top of the list to keep receiving electricity during severe winter weather.

December 1, 2021

US Senate to Debate Social Infrastructure Build Back Better Budget

Senators returning to Capitol Hill after the Thanksgiving recess are scheduled to kick off debate on a nearly $2 trillion budget package that aims to promote severe-weather resilience and reduce congestion across mobility networks.

November 23, 2021

ATA Leadership, Global Trucking Officials Meet to Discuss Key Issues

Transportation leaders from around the globe discussed shared challenges during the first in-person meeting in two years of the International Road Transport Union, with supply chain snarls, a shortage of drivers and environmental issues at the top of the agenda.

November 23, 2021

Texas, Midwest at Risk of Blackouts if Winter Brings Deep Freeze

Power grids from Texas to the Midwest are at risk of blackouts if a prolonged deep freeze sets in this winter, regulators warned Nov. 18.

November 18, 2021

Electric Vehicles Rank Low in Consumer Reports Reliability Study

Electric vehicles fare poorly in the latest reliability study from Consumer Reports, with Tesla Inc. and its battery-powered lineup finishing second-to-last for the second straight year. Only Ford Motor Co.’s Lincoln division was worse, the publisher said Nov. 18.

November 18, 2021

Appellate Court Strikes Down GHG Rule for Trailers

A divided federal appeals court has thrown out portions of the 2016 Phase 2 greenhouse gas emissions rule that would have required heavy- and medium-duty trailers for the first time ever to adopt some combination of fuel-saving technologies.

November 12, 2021

Where Trucking Stands on Environmental Sustainability

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sustainability in the trucking industry can be viewed from different angles, according to a panel at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 25.

October 27, 2021

Baker Hughes Joins Halliburton in Ida-Fueled Oil Services Hit

Another disappointment to jolt the oil services sector: Baker Hughes Co. reported a third-quarter earnings stumble that included pain from Hurricane Ida and a warning of hampered growth for oil demand.

October 20, 2021