Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi revealed prototypes of their autonomous vehicles at CES 2015 in Las Vegas BMW went one further by unveiling a car it says is “uncrashable.” Read more here.
CargoNet reported 181 total cargo theft events between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31. There were 81 incidents in October, 60 in November, and 40 in December. Most of the thefts (55%) occurred on weekends. Read more here.
Less than a month after an internal audit concluded a pilot program lacked enough participants to be statistically conclusive, the Dept. of Transportation said Friday that Mexican motor carriers will soon be able to apply for authority to conduct long-haul, cross-border trucking services in the United States. Read more here.…
Users of diesel fuel — mostly the nation’s truckers — haven’t seen diesel prices fall as much as gasoline, but that’s about to change. Diesel “is slowly joining the party,” with prices nationally declining an average of 44 cents a gallon in the last month, said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum…
There are 900 “Internet of Things” exhibitors at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. The “Internet of Things” is “not science fiction anymore, it’s science fact,” Boo-Kuen Yoon, president and CEO of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, said in a Jan. 5 keynote speech at CES, which…
U.S. rail intermodal traffic increased 5.2% in 2014 from the prior year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Railroads moved 13.5 million intermodal trailers and containers last year, AAR said Dec. 31 in its weekly report. Read more here.
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),…
