The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 18 customer complaints of automatic emergency braking activating on Freightliner Cascadias without a hazard present. The false positives led the agency to open a preliminary evaluation, the first step in what could but rarely leads to a forced recall. Manufacturers often recall vehicles during the course of…
The United States is in a truck parking crisis. According to Dan Dunleavy, director of sales at Freight Ninja, for every 11 drivers there is one parking space. The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration lists the current shortage of more than 40,000 truck parking spaces as a national safety concern. And the American…
This story is part of a series concerning California’s impending regulations on zero-emissions vehicles, which have the potential to upend the American trucking industry. You can follow along with the stories here. As Sean Cocca said at the start of a recent webinar, the ACF rule is here. And then he followed up with an…
As the U.S. home base for Amazon Air and DHL Express, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) moves large volumes of express shipments. Now the airport is positioning itself to attract general cargo carried by passenger and freighter operators interested in bypassing crowded international gateways for faster turnarounds. Officials have arranged to process significant amounts of…
Supply chain software-as-a-service provider Descartes said Wednesday that February was likely the low point for the cycle, noting demand trended up somewhat in March and April. The company has seen ocean imports increase sequentially since February to a level that is in line with pre-pandemic levels as retailers have made progress selling through excess inventories….