Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review and is a contributor to Robotics 24/7. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.
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Uber Freight said that since last month Aurora’s self-driving trucks have been completing roundtrip hauls and delivering live commercial freight without a driver behind the wheel, making it the, “first logistics platform to offer commercial…
FRA officials explained having a second crewmember provides various safety functions that are not able to be realized on a single-person crew. As an example, without the final rule, it noted how on a train with one crewmember, railroads could…
In freight railroad circles, the topic of safety is never far from top of mind. That was made clear on two fronts this week by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), in the form of railroad safety data it cited from the Federal Railroad…
As February 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train, transporting hazardous materials, on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce,…
A piece of legislation focused directly on various aspects related to railroad safety, entitled the Railway Safety Act of 2023, is headed to the Senate floor after being approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation…
Company officials said that these investments include the introduction of another 20 driving and delivery simulators throughout the United States, which almost doubles its number of simulators at its facilities.
Chris Burroughs, TIA vice president of government affairs, said at the SMC3 virtual Connections conference this week that passing the Motor Carrier Safety Selection Standard would clear up a lot of the confusion that exists out there in the motor…
A piece of bipartisan legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month by Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) focuses on augmenting road safety through a requirement by the…
With an eye on establishing the safest carrier network possible for its shipper customers, Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy said today it has introduced a new predictive crash model that takes a multi-tiered approach through machine…
