Commercial Carrier Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Former late night host Jay Leno does his best to find out the Tesla Semi's tare weight, and fails, but still makes a great video showing off some of the truck's highlights.

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Video Trucking 123

Commercial Carrier Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Ride along with CCJ Chief Editor Jason Cannon and Peterbilt's Medium-duty Product Marketing Manager Phil Hall to learn more about this green-energy driving experience.

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Modeling Video Production 110

Kuebix

MAY 22, 2019

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded autonomous-truck creator, TuSimple, a contract to conduct a 2-week pilot program of self-driving trucks starting on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The self-driving truck startup reached “unicorn status” earlier this year with a $1 billion valuation.

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Trucking Transportation Blog 97

Commercial Carrier Journal

JULY 20, 2022

Peterbilt's new Model 579 is the perfect blend of new school tech and old school trucking.

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Modeling Trucking 115

Overdrive Online

MAY 9, 2023

Peterbilt's Model 589, which will phase out an icon, was a truck more than 523 weeks in the making.

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Modeling Trucking 117

Overdrive Online

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite all the space-age tech that Plus has attached to the truck, the most important safety feature sits in the driver's seat.

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Trucking 96

Overdrive Online

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The MD is Mack’s first all-new truck model since the 2017 debut of Anthem and is one of very few bulldogs to offer a non-Mack powertrain.

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Modeling Trucking 83

Overdrive Online

JULY 20, 2022

Peterbilt's new Model 579 is the perfect blend of new school tech and old school trucking.

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Modeling Trucking 98

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2022

9 that Tesla’s full self-driving software represents a potentially lethal threat to child pedestrians, the latest in a series of claims and investigations into the technology to hit the world’s leading electric carmaker. A safe-technology advocacy group issued claimed Aug.

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Groups 110

Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The truck, created by Embark, uses a combination of radars, cameras and depth sensors which are processed using artificial intelligence that allow the truck to learn from its own experience—much like humans learn from practice.

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Trucking 157

NGT News

APRIL 17, 2024

Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) are working to make it possible for electric vehicles ranging from tractor-trailers to passenger cars to wirelessly charge while driving on highways. Construction work began April 1, 2024, on a quarter-mile test bed of U.S. Highway 231/U.S.

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Construction Transportation 98

Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Visually, the truck is striking and it’s a very un-Kenworth-like update in that there are very few little tweaks.

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Trucking 82

Commercial Carrier Journal

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Many of those miles were ticked en route to test drives – nine of them, in fact. In 2018, I logged 92,690 air miles en route to trucking events across the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan. With truck orders at record heights this has been an important year for all OEMs, but aside from pumping […]

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Events Trucking Ordering 41

247 Customs Broker

MAY 21, 2019

Last Mile Delivery, Supply Chain Robot maker e-Novia is testing a self-driving delivery system in Japan to service the… The post Japan Tests Self-Driving Delivery System appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News. April 17, 2019 Tags: Logistics I.T.,

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Logistics Manager

MAY 8, 2020

Thus, Hutchison Ports Thailand (HPT) took a brave step to advance their port operations into a more efficient and sustainable future by testing cutting-edge technologies such as the ‘Autonomous Q-Trucks’. This year, HPT is moving closer to the future with their test run of Autonomous Q-Trucks. “We

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Optimization Software Trucking Logistics Network Optimization Software Data 45

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2021

The test run will use Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucking unit to haul freight between facilities in Houston and Fort Worth.

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Freight Trucking 105

Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2019

UPS is working with TuSimple, an autonomous driving company to determine whether the vehicles can improve service and efficiency in the UPS network.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

2023 was not a record breaker for new truck announcements and test drive opportunities but what lacked in quantity was made up for in quality.

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Trucking 65

Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2019

UPS is working with TuSimple, an autonomous driving company to determine whether the vehicles can improve service and efficiency in the UPS network.

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Networks Efficiency 119

Fleet Owner

MARCH 13, 2019

Eco-Drive integrates traffic signal data with vehicle dynamics to provide real-time speed recommendations.

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Data 92

Automotive Logistics

MARCH 27, 2019

German OEM Mercedes-Benz is testing the logistics of a new vehicle processing centre (VPC) at the port of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo port authority described arrival of the company’s first cars on the vehicle carrier Tranquil Ace as a test run for the 5,574 sq.m

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 19, 2024

With a total budget of almost €40 million 40 partners from 14 different nations are working on the project and carrying out various tests with Battery Electric Trucks and Fuel Cell Electric Trucks. Efficiency improvements, mass production capabilities and the use of technologies in daily use were defined as the test criteria.

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Transportation Modeling Software Optimization Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 62

Fleet Owner

MARCH 7, 2018

First Transit partners is MnDOT, EasyMile and 3M to gather data on the effects of winter weather on autonomous vehicles.

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Data 69

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2023

There are two major industries that are impacted by marijuana testing: transportation and warehousing. Clearly no truck driver, or anyone for that matter, should be driving after using alcohol or recreational marijuana. Urine tests, such as the ethyl glucuronide (EtG) test, are also effective for around 12-24 hours after use.

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Supply Chain Design Supply Chains Scenario Planning Price Reduction 141

Overdrive Online

MAY 12, 2023

Drop in with Jason Decker of General Transportation in his talk at MATS detailing proactive strategies to fight back against double brokers, and: More on the new Peterbilt Model 589 with recent test-drive, walkaround showcasing details.

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Modeling Strategy Transportation 92

Fleet Owner

AUGUST 30, 2022

In his 44 years of driving a tractor-trailer, Vic Benson has logged more than 4 million accident-free miles. What he saw on Interstate 40 in Knoxville, Tennessee, put his experience to the test.

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Trucking 105

Truck News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Drivers must currently visit a Drive Test Center before a licence expires, and then write and pass a knowledge […]

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Transportation 121

NGT News

MAY 11, 2023

Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG and specialist in commercializing self-driving vehicle technology, is collaborating with transportation company C.R. England’s temperature-controlled loads and Torc’s fleet of Level 4 autonomous test trucks for long-haul applications.

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Trucking Temperature Collaboration Transportation 98

Trucker Dump

AUGUST 20, 2022

Podcast Show Notes In today’s show, we discuss new engines, a new driving skills test, autonomous boo-boos, COVID exemption wrecks, electric vehicle rebates, lots of reminders on lots of different things, and some wacky HOS exemption requests. Oh, and you may want to get your shot glass out of the cupboard. This episode of Trucker.

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Trucking Industry 81

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 6, 2023

There are two major industries that are impacted by marijuana testing: transportation and warehousing. Clearly no truck driver, or anyone for that matter, should be driving after using alcohol or recreational marijuana. Urine tests, such as the ethyl glucuronide (EtG) test, are also effective for around 12-24 hours after use.

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Supply Chain Design Supply Chains Scenario Planning Price Reduction 108

NGT News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sunray Motors has created and completed testing of a solar hybrid conversion unit which can be installed onto any gasoline vehicle to immediately provide extended miles per gallon (mpg) range and reduce emissions. The company has extensively tested over 15,000 miles of actual driving and performed automotive dynamometer testing.

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Efficiency 98

Logistics Management

JUNE 14, 2021

has partnered up with autonomous driving technology developer Waymo, in an initiative focused on an intra-Texas test run movement of freight for a leading J.B. -based trucking and intermodal services bellwether J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced that its subsidiary, J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. Hunt shipper customer.

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Trucking Transportation Freight 122

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

Loadsmith says its newly formed entity, Loadsmith Transportation, is the first freight transportation company built specifically for self-driving trucks. The trucks will belong to Loadsmith, and Kodiak will sell its self-driving tech on a per-mile subscription basis. million urine tests, continued an upward climb, increasing to 4.3

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Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Cost Reduction Material Savings 136

NGT News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many of Monarch Truck Center’s large fleet customers will be invited to test and evaluate […] The post Monarch Truck Center Will Host REE P7-C Demo Truck Ride-and-Drive Events appeared first on NGT News. Monarch Truck Center, a medium-duty truck dealer in the California Bay Area, will be among the first of REE Automotive Ltd.’s

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Truck News

JULY 22, 2021

that allows someone to take their Class A road test in an automatic or automated manual transmission, and if passed, provide them with a fully unrestricted licence. This allows them to drive a standard truck, with possibly as many […]. The province of Ontario is currently the only jurisdiction in all of Canada and the U.S.

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Automation Trucking 118