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Today’s Pickup: Clean truck programs may take a hit amid cap-and-trade decline
Plus: Elon Musk wants to break up Amazon; autonomous vehicles no guarantee of safe roads, study says
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Today’s Pickup: Saudi Arabia and Russia push for extending oil output cuts
OPEC+ meeting over oil output cuts; air cargo volumes declined by 7.8% this year for top air freight players; Volkswagen invests $2.6 billion in self-driving…
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Today’s Pickup: More freight, more problems on North America’s busiest highway
A fiery crash briefly shut down Highway 401 near Toronto as trucks contend with recovering freight volumes and more dangers on the roads.
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Today’s Pickup: Trimble, Kuebix release next-generation community load match platform
Plus: Rivian re-opens factory; drones deliver PPE
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Today’s Pickup: Samsara introduces driver efficiency scores to help improve driving habits
Samsara introduces driver efficiency scores; core capital goods shipments from U.S. drops; Softbank looks to fix U.S. roads.
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Today’s Pickup: Purolator is doing much better than Canada Post
The courier and less-than-truckload subsidiary of Canada’s postal carrier had a decent first quarter considering the impacts of COVID-19 and C$1 billion expansion of its…
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Today’s Pickup: OTR Capital to integrate Trucker Tools functionality into customer portal
Trucker Tools’ Book-it-Now and predictive freight matching tools will now be available to users of financial services firm OTR Capital. Plus, major markets showing volume…
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Today’s Pickup: Ford reopens two facilities, twice in the same week over COVID-19 scare
Ford reopens Dearborn and Chicago facilities; U.S. GDP predicted to slide by 40% in three months to June; Target saw sales rise by 10.8% last…
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Today’s Pickup: More trucks continue to cross US-Canada border
Latest Canada Border Services Agency data shows uptick in commercial vehicle traffic in a good sign for cross-border freight.
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