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WASHINGTON — Truck safety advocates are warning federal regulators against approving a roadside safety exemption for autonomous trucks in the face of strong support for the exemption by corporate interests. Waymo and Aurora petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in January for the five-year exemption that would allow all highly automated (Level 4 and…
Norfolk Southern and one of the largest unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), have reached an agreement over sick leave. The two also have a second quality-of-life agreement that will need to be ratified by members. By ratifying that agreement, the sick leave deal will also be ratified. The sick leave agreement…
HOUSTON — In the five days of CERAWeek by S&P Global, participants raised questions about hydrogen as an energy source, including in trucking, mostly over the enormous challenges to build infrastructure for a hydrogen-fueled future. But the environmental movement checked in here as well, represented by the Environmental Defense Fund. The EDF has generally been…
Foreign container lines were widely blamed for stratospheric freight rates during the supply chain crisis. President Joe Biden proclaimed last June he was “viscerally angry” at the “rip-off,” clenching his fist and saying he felt like “popping someone,” presumably a foreign container-line executive. As the shipping lines took the heat for raking in billions amid…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on Monday asked the Mexican government to investigate claims that labor rights are being denied at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in the country. The USTR petition alleges that Goodyear is obstructing workers’ freedom of association and right to collective bargaining at its plant…
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference when many school districts struggle to keep the vehicles they have road worthy? OK, so school buses are not hauling the freight we usually write about. But they carry precious cargo — our…