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Ralph Garcia, a driver for Fort Smith-based ABF Freight System, has received the Mike Russell Trucking Image award from the American Trucking Associations’, one of the top honors in the national trucking sector. The Mike Russell Trucking Image Award celebrates companies, organizations, and individuals who creatively generate positive awareness of the trucking industry. Garcia, began […]

Convoy, a Seattle-based startup, is bringing the Uber model of connecting drivers and customers with mobile technology to the $749 billion market for hauling freight and merchandise. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar are among the investors backing Convoy, along with Uber co-founder Garrett Camp. Convoy, which shippers can

English engineers at the University of Leeds recently won 4.2 million pound grant (about $6.5 million USD) from the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to create a national infrastructure for “self-repairing cities,” where small robots can identify and repair everything from potholes to streetlights to utility pipes. The team, led by civil engineer

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that the Department of Transportation will provide $500 million for 39 transportation projects in 34 states from its TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) 2015 program. Rural areas received 43% of the project awards, more than any previous year. “Transportation is always about the future. If we’re just fixing today’s

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its latest CSA research, Assessing the Impact of Non-Preventable Crashes on CSA Scores.  ATRI’s research confirms the need for reforms that would direct the resources of the Agency and highway enforcement to the carriers that need it. In this analysis, ATRI investigated the impact that excluding non-preventable crashes would have

The Arkansas Trucking Association 40 Under 40 Council names four new council members from this fall. The Council was established in 2009 to identify and cultivate new, young executives in member companies and acclimate them to the intricacies of the trucking world as well as the dynamics of the association. Grant Sykes, market support manager

The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be updating the DOT’s policy on self-driving cars. The department’s previous statement, published in May 2013, says cars should be limited to testing and not “authorized for use by members of the public for general driving purposes.” In light of recent progress in

Arkansas Trucking Association Praises Congress for Highway Bill Legislation Will Make Moving Goods Safer and More Efficient Little Rock, Ar. – Today, leaders of the Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) commended the House and Senate for working toward a long-term transportation bill that will fund infrastructure projects for the next five years and support advances in efficiency