Trucks move 99% of the consumer goods that we find on store shelves. Every day the nation’s freight system moves 48 million tons of goods worth $46 billion. Severe weather has a huge impact on the speed, and therefore the profits, of this industry. But the stakes are even higher for truck drivers, because the consequences …
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Self-Driving Vehicles: Rise Of The Machines
Last year we wrote about self-driving vehicles in the distribution industry. Since then the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. Autonomous vehicles of all kinds are now sharing the roads with us. And the odds that you’ll pass one during your daily commute are rising all the time. But what about the news reports we’ve …
Exhausted Truck Drivers: A Fatal Issue
It was a typical traffic stop for Illinois State Trooper Douglass Balder on the brisk and frigid night of January 27, 2014. With police lights flashing, Officer Balder pulled off the far right lane of the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway to assist a stalled-out tractor trailer bound for Chicago. He pulled up behind the tow …