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Long Train Delays at Crossings Gets Supreme Court Attention

The U.S. Supreme Court has invited the federal government to weigh in on whether state and local governments can regulate how long trains can block railroad crossings.

March 20, 2023
BusinessTechnologyAutonomousPrivateTCA

Pie From the Sky? Walmart Drone Deliveries Take Off

Drone delivery is no longer a thing of the future. It鈥檚 happening in Hampton Roads, Va., and soon, at Walmart stores across the country.

March 20, 2023
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyFuelLogisticsTCA

Ports of L.A., Long Beach Join Bid to Be Hydrogen Fuel Hub

The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports want to be part of a statewide clean hydrogen hub, through which they would get funding聽to test usage of the fuel to power trucking and terminal equipment.

March 17, 2023
GovernmentSafetyFuelTCA

Michigan Roads See Funding Gap of Up to $3.9 Billion as Report Floats Tax Increase

Michigan has an annual funding gap of roughly $2.1 billion to $3.9 billion when it comes to money to maintain the state鈥檚 crumbling roads and bridges 鈥 even after record federal aid and state bonding is taken into account, according to a new study of the state鈥檚 infrastructure costs.

March 7, 2023
GovernmentBusinessEquipmentTCA

Buttigieg, Surveying Future Panasonic Battery Plant, Sees Manufacturing 鈥楻enaissance鈥

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Feb. 27 hailed the massive Panasonic battery plant planned for De Soto, Kan., as part of a wave of industrial production centered on electric vehicles that is spurring an 鈥淎merican renaissance鈥 in manufacturing.

March 1, 2023
BusinessTechnologyAutonomousTCA

Autonomous Truck Startup Locomation Laying Off Employees

Driverless truck startup company Locomation has laid off most of its staff as it winds down operations, the second autonomous vehicle outfit in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area to encounter financial difficulties in four months.

February 24, 2023
BusinessLogisticsTCA

Port Tampa Bay Approves $50 Million Logistics & Distribution Center

Maryland-based Tradepoint Atlantic, a shipping logistics company, is coming to Tampa, Fla., in a deal that Port Tampa Bay CEO Paul Anderson called 鈥減otentially one of the biggest modern opportunities in the modern history of our port.鈥

February 22, 2023
BusinessLogisticsTCA

Target to Invest $100 Million in Sorting Centers for Order Deliveries

MINNEAPOLIS 鈥 The next Target online order that ends up at your door might come from a new type of shipping facility aimed at making deliveries cheaper and faster.

February 22, 2023
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyTCA

Lightning eMotors Capitalizes on Federal Electric Truck Incentives

Lightning eMotors, a Loveland, Colo.-based manufacturer and seller of electric vehicles for commercial fleets, has been certified under the 鈥渂uy America鈥 program, making its products eligible for federal grants designed to help electrify the nation鈥檚 transportation.

February 21, 2023
GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuelTCA

Shippers to Pay $45 Million to Settle 2021 California Oil Spill Lawsuits

LOS ANGELES 鈥 Companies linked to two cargo ships accused of damaging a pipeline months before it ruptured have agreed to pay $45 million to settle lawsuits brought by business owners and residents.

February 10, 2023