FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line – Helping the World Keep Promises®. Learn more here. While Malcom McLean, founder of Sea-Land, is regarded as the father of the container ship, Daniel Keith Ludwig is recognized as the father of the supertanker. Ludwig was born on June 24, 1897, in South Haven, Michigan, to…
The fifth generation of Kodiak Robotics’ autonomous truck design moved more components into mirror-mounted SensorPods, eliminating the “unibrow” of cameras and radars above the windshield that suggests a science project rather than a production truck. Kodiak is aiming for the same end-of-2024 time frame that competitors TuSimple and Aurora Innovation point to for limited driverless…
Not every analyst is head over heels over FedEx Corp.’s announcement Wednesday that it will integrate its two largest operating units June 1, 2024, in an effort to kick-start its way to as much as $6 billion in savings through 2027. Ravi Shanker, of Morgan Stanley & Co., who has been mostly bearish on FedEx…
WASHINGTON — The White House is reviewing a proposed rule to establish a safety standard to require and/or standardize the performance of automatic emergency braking systems (AEB) on heavy trucks. According to a “statement of need” received by the Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday, the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration believes there is…
This week on Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, is joined by a great friend of the show, Brandon Wiseman, owner and president of Trucksafe Consulting. Trucksafe Consulting helps fleets develop innovative safety programs to minimize highway accidents through its online Department of Transportation-compliant Trucksafe Academy. “I just didn’t think…