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CES: Peterbilt adds third model to electric truck lineup, Continental demos delivery robot concept
Peterbilt this week debuted its third all-electric truck offering, unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas the battery-powered medium-duty Model 220EV cabover. Also at CES, Continental showed off a driverless delivery van concept capable of delivering packages to homes, the company says, via four-footed robots.
January 9, 2019
Business
On-demand load matching: Where it’s happening
As mobile communications technology advancements give rise to streamlined freight transactions, some startups go so far as doing it all with a single app. Who will be the ‘Uber of trucking?’
April 1, 2015
Channel 19
Interviewing NFI ‘roadside midwife’ Mike Hawthorne
How many roadside midwives do you know? Such is the unlikely description that can now be appropriately applied to NFI driver Mike Hawthorne, of Somerdale, N.J. Since I wrote about him several weeks back, the driver, who delivered the third newborn baby of his hauling career in late March, has been back at work delivering […]
May 1, 2012
Channel 19
NFI driver delivers third roadside baby
I was all set this morning to write about the debate over the appropriate strategy toward dealing with fraud in the trucking industry from crooked poseur brokers and the like (tune in tomorrow for more on that), but sometimes a story hits that is just too good and/or unbelievable to pass on. Today, that story […]
April 11, 2012
Channel 19
Pink truck more than just pretty
When Daren Parker prepared to ask a senior driver in his Raleigh, N.C.-based Parker Gas propane-delivery fleet to drive a new medium-duty Kenworth T370 straight tanker, all bets were off as to what kind of reaction Parker could expect from said driver. The truck, after all, was painted pink. “You don’t see many trucks painted […]
May 10, 2010
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