Walmart’s United Kingdom-based business ASDA just launched a fully-automated collection point for online grocery pickup for shoppers in the United Kingdom, according to City Wire, a media source in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith, Ark. It’s the first of its kind for Walmart ASDA given that it’s just a collection…
Coca-Cola Co. unveiled the world’s first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant materials at the World Expo in Milan, Italy. PlantBottle packaging uses patented technology that converts natural sugars found in plants into the ingredients for making fully recyclable PET plastic bottles. The packaging looks, functions and recycles like…
GREEN BAY, WI — While cargo theft has long been a threat to the trucking industry, you may want to take a lesson from one of the largest fleets in North America when it comes to your business and your trucks. On Tuesday the truckload, intermodal and logistics provider Schneider…
Trucking technology supplier PeopleNet has acquired Cadec Global Inc. in a move that expands the company’s fleet-management offerings for the foodservice and private-fleet sectors. Financial terms were not disclosed. PeopleNet, which is part of Trimble, provides mobile communications systems and software designed to help fleets improve efficiency, safety and regulatory…
More than 30 mostly European organisations are pressing for the development of unmanned cargo aircraft (UCA). Forwarders, shippers, universities and aircraft manufacturers, grouped under the name Platform for UCA (PUCA), are researching technological and regulatory issues and hoping to attract investment. UCAs are expected to be cheaper and more efficient…
As OEMs and suppliers continue a rapid pace of new technology adoption into tractors, these truly are exciting times in the trucking industry. Perhaps the excitement was never more palpable than last month, when Daimler Trucks threw a press event for a group of international journalists and industry analysts and…
Continuing its traction in the commercial trucking business, Lytx Inc., a global leader in video-based driver safety, announced this week that dedicated logistics provider Estenson Logistics and its partner company, Truline Corp., have deployed the Lytx DriveCam Program throughout their fleet of 900 vehicles. The combined company has become one…
Sleepiness and stress are perennial risks for the long distance lorry driver, and accidents are sadly too frequent. However, a radical new driverless truck being trialled by Daimler may offer a solution. Earlier this month, the automotive giant was granted the first licence ever to test such a vehicle on…
There’s a line in a Merle Haggard song that goes, “It takes a special breed to be a truck drivin’ man.” I wanted to know what exactly that meant, so I ended up driving 2,668 miles with one to find out. There is a shortage of truck drivers in this…
In the mid-afternoon break between the morning and evening classes at Chattanooga State’s commercial driving school, Linda BeBout explained how when she crawls up in the cab of one of the school’s learner trucks and puts the shifter in gear, it will be her first time driving a vehicle with…
