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Transportation businesses face a host of dynamic risk issues that can significantly impact their financial and operational health. The news in this category focuses on the latest safety and security initiatives, resources and regulations and addresses topics that include fleet safety, claims administration, driver hiring and retention, risk management and compliance.

Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

Kodiak Unveils New Autonomous Truck Platform

Kodiak Robotics introduced its fifth-generation autonomous truck hardware platform, the driverless trucking company announced.

April 10, 2023

Daily Briefings from Transport Topics

Transport Topics has partnered with Spoken Layer to make one-minute daily briefings available on all your smart devices. Simply say “Alexa, play Transport Topics” or “Okay Google, talk to Transport Topics” to get the day’s biggest trucking headlines.

Government, Business, Technology, Safety

Reports of Double-Brokering Increase

Double-brokering — when a carrier accepts a load and then illegally re-brokers it to another carrier — is on the rise, costing brokers and carriers millions of dollars.

Mindy Long | Special to Transport Topics
April 10, 2023
Government, Business, Technology, Safety

Regulators Say Railroads Must Examine How They Build Trains

OMAHA, Neb. — Federal regulators said April 7 that railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains after a string of derailments in recent years.

Josh Funk | Associated Press
April 10, 2023
Government, Business, Safety

Cases Pour In Before New Florida Lawsuit Abuse Law Takes Effect

Attorneys filed 80,000 to 100,000 new court cases that could seek damages from businesses a few days before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enacted a law to quash lawsuit abuse.

Noël Fletcher | Staff Reporter
April 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

5 Questions With Rig Runner's Jay Rincker

As an experienced technician and director, Jay Rincker shared some of his thoughts about the trucking industry as well as the repair and maintenance sector.

April 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

The Evolution of Tractor-Trailer Connectivity

ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council is nearing the culmination of a multiyear effort to define the evolutionary direction of tractor-­trailer connectivity.

Jack Legler | Technical Director, Technology & Maintenance Council
April 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Getting a Lift: Fleets Weigh Lift Equipment

Penske Truck Leasing has a simple strategy for heavy-duty vehicle lifts in its shop network: Mobile is better. It's not alone.

Steve Brawner | Contributing Writer
April 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

GM Cruise Recalls 300 Robotaxis After Crash

DETROIT — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them rear-ended a municipal bus in San Francisco.

April 7, 2023
Business, Technology, Safety, Fuel

Tesla Cuts Prices for Second Time This Year

Tesla Inc. marked down all of its vehicles again in the U.S. after price tweaks throughout the first quarter yielded an incremental sales gain.

April 7, 2023
Government, Business, Safety

NTSB's Bruce Landsberg Discusses Driver Dangers

MINNEAPOLIS — A top executive from the National Transportation Safety Board cited fatigue, impairment and distraction as key contributing factors to highway fatalities, and stressed to a group of trucking safety executives that the agency’s goal is to work with all stakeholders to make roads safer.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
April 5, 2023