Transport Topics (March 12, 2021)
Meera Joshi, new acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, says automation has “extremely real and broad impacts.” Joshi was speaking at FMCSA’s 20th annual Analysis, Re...
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Transport Topics (March 11, 2021)
U.S. Class 8 retail sales in February came in slightly below the year-ago figure. Yesterday WardsAuto.com reported that 15,369 Class 8s were sold in the month. Two truck makers — Volvo Trucks North Am...
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Transport Topics (March 10, 2021)
A coalition of trucking groups has issued a letter urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to designate truck stops and travel plazas as COVID-19 vaccination sites. Natso, which represen...
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Transport Topics (March 9, 2021)
The House of Representatives will take up the new COVID-19 relief bill today, and it appears likely that lawmakers will clear it for President Joe Biden’s signature. Once that happens, the White House...
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Transport Topics (March 8, 2021)
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has canceled this year’s North American Inspectors Championship, which had been scheduled to take place in August in Minneapolis. The championship event coincide...
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Transport Topics (March 5, 2021)
Senate Democrats are zeroing in on passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that will include aid for transportation corridors. Policymakers have said they will soon push through a version similar...
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Transport Topics (March 4, 2021)
North American Class 8 orders reached 43,800 in February, good for an astounding 212% increase over the same month in 2020. According to ACT Research, which published the information, the orders came ...
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Transport Topics (March 3, 2021)
Most people know Amazon as an online retail giant. But a report by DePaul University business professor Joseph Schweiterman says Amazon is fast becoming a direct competitor of UPS, FedEx and the U.S. ...
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