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If bragging rights matter, Kodiak Robotics gets them for the first-known driverless commercial freight delivery. But the feat achieved in early May was not what many had expected: a 53-foot dry van of consumer goods rolling 65 mph on a Texas interstate. Instead the autonomous trucking developer pivoted, moving fracking sand used in oil drilling…
Texas ports along the Gulf Coast closed operations and vessel traffic before Hurricane Beryl made landfall in southeast Texas at 4:30 a.m. Monday CDT as a Category 1 storm packing 94 mph winds, heavy rainfall and the potential for life-threatening storm surges. Ports in Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Freeport and Texas City were shuttered Sunday…
Diesel markets beyond the pump price are beginning to reflect inventory levels that in the U.S. at least are starting to head into territory last seen during the price spikes of the spring and fall of 2022. The Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration weekly average retail diesel price fell 2.5 cents a gallon to $3.897…
Pitney Bowes CEO Marc Lautenbach continues in his job despite the election of four director candidates proposed by Hestia Capital Management to its board. Shareholders voted at the Pitney Bowes Inc. annual meeting Tuesday to approve four of the board candidates proposed by the investment firm. However, longtime IT executive Lance Rosenzweig, Hestia’s choice to…
A decline in flight hours for all-cargo airlines is another data point to gauge the sagging airfreight market that is typically measured in volume by tonnage or weight by distance carried. Freighter aircraft utilization fell an estimated 8.1% in January, the second steepest decline in three years after a 9% drop in December, according to…
If you thought last year’s veto of a Teamsters-backed ban on heavy-duty autonomous trucking in California put the issue to rest, think again. While 23 states allow at least testing of driverless trucking, emerging challenges resemble the arcade game Whac-A-Mole. Early-stage commercialized driverless trucking on Interstate 45 in Texas looks likely later this year. The…