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This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit on Wednesday. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Autonomous truck technology’s impact on fleet growth. DETAILS: Andrew Culhane, chief strategy officer at Torc, chats with Thomas Wasson, FreightWaves enterprise trucking carrier expert, about how autonomous technology is changing the fleet landscape and about pilot programs with the nation’s…
Temperature-controlled carrier Trappers Transport announced Wednesday it has acquired Plett Trucking. The deal combines two Winnipeg, Canada-based cold chain transportation and logistics providers. Plett Trucking hauls refrigerated freight for some of Canada’s biggest food producers and suppliers with a fleet of 40 power units and 60 reefer trailers. The trailers have single- and multi-temperature capabilities….
The Georgia Ports Authority handled 5.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units in its 2023 fiscal year ending June 30, down 6.7% from fiscal year 2022 but higher than the 5.3 million TEUs moved in 2021 and the 4.5 million TEUs moved in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Of that total, GPA handled 1.13 million TEUs in…
Elmer Bontrager, a Kentucky-based truck driver, doesn’t mind his overly helpful big rig. But he knows it has its limits. Bontrager’s semi-truck wants to alert him whenever it seems like he’s going to mess up. The problem is, the truck isn’t always correct. A weigh station, for example, might have a stop sign where the…
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a bill that would have put a $1 million cap on awards for non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, in lawsuits stemming from commercial motor vehicle accidents. The trucking industry has pushed to limit damages in such accidents, citing nuclear verdicts in the tens of millions of dollars…
Yellow (NASDAQ: YELL) just narrowly avoided bankruptcy for the fifth time since 2009. The potential for collapse is still looming, though. That’s scaring some customers off, according to three brokers and two industry experts interviewed by FreightWaves. Recent notes from investment banks like Bank of America and Stifel have also pointed to customers quietly diverting…