Last Week’s News on transportation, logistics, supply chain, trucking, cargo, freight, and electric trucks.

Autonomous Trucking

“Autonomous Trucks Could Reshape How We Think About Insurance”
Read more: https://www.truckinginfo.com/10193963/autonomous-trucks-could-reshape-how-we-think-about-insurance

“BLIVE: Bloomberg Intelligent Automation: FedEx on Embracing Digital Before Digital Was Cool”
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-03-01/blive-bloomberg-intelligent-automation-fedex-on-embracing-digital-before-digital-was-cool-5-15pm

“Autonomous Trucks Are Barreling Ahead, But Robot Big Rigs Face A Bumpy Road”
Read more: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/autonomous-trucks-are-coming-but-face-bumpy-road/

Business

“Heavy-Duty Repair Revenues Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels”
Read more: https://www.truckinginfo.com/10193335/report-heavy-duty-repair-revenues-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels

“Controversial plan to ban older trucks from Vancouver port delayed again”
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/9510213/vancouver-port-truck-age-program-delayed/

“Is FedEx Ground looking to zero out 3rd-party influence?”
Read more: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-fedex-ground-looking-to-zero-out-3rd-party-influence

Electric Vehicles

“Uber Freight partners with WattEV, CHEP on Southern California routes”
Read more: https://www.transportdive.com/news/Uber-Freight-WattEV-CHEP-electric-trucks-southern-california/643906/

Government Policy

“ATA’s Spear Blasts “Mad Dash” CARB Emissions Timelines”
Read more: https://www.truckinginfo.com/10193435/atas-spear-blasts-mad-dash-carb-emissions-timelines

“Transport ministers discuss labor shortage, infrastructure challenges”
Read more: https://www.trucknews.com/supply-chain/transport-ministers-discuss-labor-shortage-infrastructure-challenges/1003173029/

“Canada invests in skills training to address shortages in trucking industry”
Read more: https://thelinkpaper.ca/__trashed/

“Trucking Groups Ask Congress to Repeal Heavy Duty Federal Excise Tax”
Read more: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/columns/cash-market-moves/article/2023/02/24/trucking-groups-ask-congress-repeal

“ATA’s Chris Spear Proposes Excise Tax Repeal”
Read more: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/atas-chris-spear-proposes-excise-tax-repeal

Technology

“Machine learning predicts the future of driver safety”
Read more: https://www.fleetowner.com/technology/article/21260941/machine-learning-predicts-the-future-of-truck-driver-safety

Miscellaneous

“How employment of women in the trucking industry has changed over the past 20 years”
Read more: https://www.rheaheraldnews.com/news/collection_06bab212-8dc0-5d83-b090-3ff7b516eec5.html#1

“Nikola recalls Tre BEV trucks for brake issue”
Read more: https://landline.media/nikola-recalls-tre-bev-trucks-for-brake-issue/

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