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BusinessTechnology

Hirschbach Motor Lines to Use Driver Match from Stay Metrics

After the recent launch of its Driver Match application, Stay Metrics has announced that Hirschbach Motor Lines will be using the technology to assign drivers to driver managers.

September 5, 2017
BusinessTechnologyAutonomous

Google, Waymo Officially Separated by Creation of XXVI Holdings Inc.

Alphabet Inc. is forming a new holding company, XXVI Holdings Inc., designed to finalize its evolution from Google into a corporate parent with distinct arms in far-flung fields like health care and self-driving cars.

September 1, 2017
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Republicans Restore Language in House Funding Bill Calling for ELD Delay

The December mandate on electronic logging devices would not be carried out under a proposal recently added to a fiscal 2018 funding bill in the House.

August 31, 2017
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentAutonomous

Big Changes Seen in Truck, Bus Design

California is the 鈥渋ncubator鈥 for commercial vehicle innovation that will spread throughout the nation, generating a wave of new powertrains and driver-assistance technologies designed to decrease truck emissions and increase safety and freight efficiency, a vehicle engineering consultant said.

August 31, 2017
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentFuel

Speedy Change for GHG Phase 2 Not Expected

A notice from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revisit parts of the Phase 2 final rule on greenhouse gas emissions from heavy- and medium-duty trucks isn鈥檛 likely to create changes quickly, as the agency has not presented plans for expedited action and environmental groups are vowing to pursue a challenge in a federal appeals court 鈥 once the case is no longer being held in abeyance.

August 31, 2017
GovernmentTechnologyFuelTCA

Electric Trucks Will Help 鈥楰ill Dirty Diesel,鈥 California Lawmakers Say

Parked east of the California Capitol steps was a long line of vehicles as clean as they were large, including a yellow school bus, a UPS delivery truck and an AC Transit bus 鈥 all with electric or hybrid motors.

August 30, 2017
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

German Firm K枚rber to Acquire U.S. Supply Chain Software Company HighJump

U.S.-based supply chain software firm HighJump is being acquired by K枚rber AG in Hamburg, Germany, for an undisclosed amount from Accellos Holdings and its primary investor, Accel-KKR, in Menlo Park, Calif.

August 30, 2017
GovernmentTechnologyEquipment

Effort to Halt ELD Mandate Withdrawn From House Funding Bill

A proposal to deny funding for the enforcement of the December mandate on electronic logging devices was removed from a fiscal 2018 funding bill the House is scheduled to consider next month.

August 30, 2017
BusinessTechnologyEquipmentAutonomous

Wabco, Nexteer Sign Long-Term Cooperation Agreement

Wabco Holdings Inc. signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Nexteer Automotive, a provider of intuitive motion control, as it prepares for the advent of self-driving commercial vehicles, according to the company.

August 30, 2017
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Impact of 'Phased-In' ELD Mandate

TT's Seth Clevenger and Eric Miller discuss the impact of the Aug. 28 announcement that CVSA will employ a "phased-in" enforcement of the electronic logging device mandate that takes effect Dec. 18, 2017.

August 29, 2017