Jackson, Mississippi-based Peterbilt Truck Centers Inc. will build a 20,000-square-foot showroom for more than $2.5 million on the vacant lot in front of its current facility at 1761 E. Brooks Road in Memphis, said John Waits, chief financial officer of the dealer group. The showroom should open this June. Read more…
Google might have set the ball rolling with their prototype self-driving car, but it doesn’t exactly set the pulse racing with its looks. So step in Mercedes, who have unveiled a sleek and stylish vehicle that they say could be the future of autonomous cars. Revealed in a presentation at…
To have end-to-end visibility of materials moving across their supply chains, many are considering the construction of digitally enabled control towers. These are essentially dashboards that centralize information that manufacturers need to understand customer demand, capacity, inventory, order/shipment statuses and even the progress that third-party logistics partners are making with…
This week, LaPoste, France’s postal service, announced that its package-delivery subsidiary, GeoPost, had successfully completed initial tests of a service to deliver lightweight mail and packages via drone. The tests were conducted by CEEMA or the Centre d’Études et d’Essai pour Modèles Autonomes (the Center for Autonomous Model Testing and Studies),…
Based in Florida, the logistics service provider is expected to report a 47% jump in Q4 profit, continuing an upswing that followed three straight quarters of declining growth. Improved economic growth and falling costs are boosting sales and profits across the industry. The price of diesel fuel has fallen amid…
The milestone truck, a T680 Advantage model with a Paccar MX-13 engine, was presented to TransAm Trucking, a refrigerated carrier based in Olathe, Kansas. Kenworth, founded in 1923, has grown from building fewer than 100 trucks per year early in its history to more than 45,000 in 2014, its second-highest…
While Mercedes is set to unveil its autonomous features at CES, it’s unlikely that we’ll be seeing full driverless cars. Like many car companies, Mercedes is looking at smart systems that take over only some of the driver’s duties, such as braking assistance. Read more here.
Trucking comes out on top for sheer number of unfilled openings. An average of 242,000 openings were posted on job boards per month between January 2013 and August 2014, while only 132,000 openings on average, or 54%, were filled per month, at a median wage of about $18 per hour,…
Like Oz in the Emerald City, engineers at Nvidia NVDA -1.69% , based in Santa Clara, Calif., are working to give the next generation of automobiles a brain capable of understanding the world around it. “The car is rapidly going to go from the most stupid electronic device…
Now cars are among the main attractions at the International CES that opens Jan. 6 featuring vehicles with touchscreen dashboards and others controlled by smartwatches. Fields is making a triumphant return as Ford’s chief executive officer, where he’ll deliver a speech about the dawn of the connected-car era. Daimler AG…
