The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) reported today that the driver-turnover rate at “large” truckload carriers increased by a mere one percentage point to 92% (annualized rate) in this year’s first quarter and held above 90% for the ninth consecutive quarter. Meanwhile, ATA said turnover at “small” truckload fleets dropped one percentage point in Q1 to…
GoGet sees driverless cars and tighter integration with trains and buses as the future of its car-sharing service in Australia, according to co-founder Bruce Jeffreys. GoGet has more than 1100 vehicles in Sydney and 200 in Melbourne. It has nearly 50,000 customers subscribed to the service. “When we started, it was…
Automotive group Daimler has cast a light on the future of the global truck industry by unveiling the prototype of the “Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025″, the world’s first driverless truck. On Thursday, the highly advanced prototype was demonstrated to the media, industry experts and government agencies along a 30-kilometre stretch of…
Trailer orders in May rose to the highest level for that month since 1998, continuing the strong growth trend that has been building this year, ACT Research reported. Trailer buyers placed 22,308 net orders with U.S. manufacturers last month, a 52.2% increase compared with 14,655 in May 2013. ACT analyst…
UPS Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in its European operations in the next three to five years, chief financial officer Kurt Kuehn told a German newspaper, Reuters reported. A majority of the investment would go to expanding the company’s logistics centers in Germany, one of the company’s fastest growing…
JOPLIN, Mo. — Con-way Truckload, a full truckload carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. today announced it has been honored by Transplace, a leading provider of transportation management services and logistics solutions, with its Platinum Carrier designation for 2014. Selection as a Transplace Platinum Carrier is based on criteria including…
