States’ ability to prioritize freight projects may determine whether Biden’s infrastructure money will make short- or long-term progress toward fixing the country’s supply chains.
Startup Locomation sees huge upside for an autonomous trucking convoy, but it has a long road to meeting its goal of 60,000 trucking pairs by 2025.
Does the search for a completely safe driverless truck mean that everything should wait for perfection? David Liu doesn’t think so.
Poole says the bill is a step away from the “user pays, user benefits” policy that has long been in place for infrastructure.
A VMT user fee has support from “Secretary Pete” — but not from trucking.
Pennsylvania’s move to scrap fuel taxes could change how states generate revenue to pay for road projects.
Experts warned lawmakers of industry backlash if trucking is singled out to save the nearly bankrupt highway trust fund
Plus: Waymo releases data; Softbank opens up IPOs; Nevada truckers to retake driving tests.
FreightWaves Radio’s seventh national show was broadcast on Saturday, April 6 on SiriusXM’s Road Dog Channel 146.
Plus: Chinese AV in Silicon Valley; a Singapore mall, Alibaba and Blockchain; Nigeria’s logistics disrupter
