Benchmark diesel price down 7 weeks in a row

Retail diesel prices have continued to trend lower, with the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration weekly average retail price dropping another 6.2 cents per gallon as futures and wholesale markets have fallen on the back of financial markets dealing with uncertainty created by a potential banking crisis. The decline put the benchmark price used for…

White Paper: 5 Ways Top Fleets Maximize the Benefits of Custom Apps

Next-generation ELDs have open platforms, more device options, and a consumer-style user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). Yet, no product offers a one-size-fits-all solution. The pre-packaged features and functions are either too sparse or cookie-cutter to meet each fleet’s unique specifications. That’s why many fleets (including 14 of the 20 largest fleets out there…

Court revives Uber/Postmates fight against AB5 for app-based drivers

A lawsuit against AB5 brought by Uber, Postmates and two of their gig drivers failed in a lower federal court in California in 2020 but has been partially revived on appeal. And it appears that the primary reason for the reversal were the words of AB5’s key sponsor, Lorena Gonzalez, who was a state assemblywoman…

Optimus Prime, Bloomberg and the Spartan way – WTT

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to a man who has Optimus Prime on a mission to help kids. Joe Fiduccia, the owner of Optimus is Here, built the world’s first and only screen-accurate replica of “Transformers: Age of Extinction”-era Optimus Prime.  “Optimus has personally touched countless families who have faced…