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Thomas Wasson Thursday, April 27, 2023

Loaded and Rolling: Diesel technician demand remains extreme

The demand for skilled technicians to keep shops and maintenance terminals running continues to challenge recruiters due to high demand. A major source of lost utilization for fleets on the road is getting their vehicles repaired in a timely manner. A lack of technicians continues to plague shops, creating extra downtime and work order backlogs.

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Brian Aoaeh Thursday, May 28, 2020

Commentary: Digital freight brokers face a moment of truth

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.  News reports that Uber is re-evaluating non-core units like Uber Freight did not take me by surprise.  To learn more about what’s happening, you can read JP Hampstead’s Uber ‘re-evaluating’ non-core units like […]

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FreightWaves Staff Tuesday, February 18, 2020

A youth-driven approach to the driver shortage

Nothing fires up the trucking community like a strong opinion on the driver shortage. From its inception, FreightWaves waded into the conversation, balancing perspectives from both ends of the continuum. We considered the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA’s) perspective that there is an ever-expanding dearth of quality drivers, especially for midsize to large carriers. We considered […]

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Today’s Pickup: Nuro the first to test autonomous delivery on public streets

Good day, Self-driving vehicle startup Nuro has won approval from federal regulators to test its battery-powered driverless delivery vehicles on public streets. According to a news release, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration granted the Mountain View, California, company a waiver to deploy its low-speed R2s, which lack windshields and side mirrors and aren’t designed […]

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John Kingston Tuesday, December 31, 2019

OOIDA wants SCOTUS to weigh in: when is a toll too high?

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is trying to take its so-far-unsuccessful battle over Pennsylvania tolls to the U.S. Supreme Court.  At the heart of the effort by the OOIDA and several other plaintiffs in the case is the question of whether there is legally such a thing as an excessive toll. The definition of […]

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