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Overdrive Radio
Over the Road reality creeps toward 'automated future'?
In the finale of Overdrive Radio's re-air of the OTR podcast, a long look with Long Haul Paul Marhoefer at both skeptics and proselytizers of trucking automation, with plenty emphasis on where truckers stand in today's on-highway reality.
April 2, 2021
Channel 19
An indie dispatcher’s growing pains meet an owner-op in search of service after ‘every man for himself’ pandemic crunch
In unfamiliar areas, Jose Williams thought to turn to a young dispatch service after reading about them here during the summer. Here's his mixed experience.
October 28, 2020
Channel 19
Small group of truckers in Lexington, Ky., today showing Yang campaign support — a little for Trump, too — around President’s rally
In a bid for national attention to driver issues, today a small group of truckers banded together in Lexington, Ky., with support from an Andrew Yang campaign-supporting Super PAC to display Yang support around a Trump rally. They invited Trump-supporting truckers to fly their banners, too.
November 4, 2019
Business
Driver’s role in ‘driverless trucks’ explored in GATS panel
One vision of the future driver was exemplified by an approach to tech development discussed in this sessions at GATS — this vision sees the work of driving becoming an office job that is however something like telecommuting, of a fashion, to a mobile office rolling down the road.
August 23, 2019
Channel 19
A case for manual shifting, for less (not more) automation, for engagement on the long road
The incremental additions of automated features at highway speeds is ultimately an experiment with how much distraction the human brain can resist before it falls asleep at the wheel. Vehicle makers new and old, and end users, would do well to recognize and take very seriously the implications.
April 18, 2019
Business
Convoy adds ‘automated bidding’ to in-app freight network
The Convoy freight platform launched automated bidding within its Request a Load feature, which U.S. carriers can use to input desired rates, favorite lanes and availability dates to allow the system to then automatically bid on loads.
March 22, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Tech demos show ambitions for further automation
The latest tech offerings envision improved cash flow, less manual data entry, fewer phone calls, more precise navigation, and simplification of complex or overly manual processes.
November 13, 2018
Business
Drivers concerned about loss of future jobs, human element with implementation of autonomous trucks
Drivers discuss concerns at GATS about potential loss of truck driving jobs due to implementation of automated driving systems and autonomous trucks.
August 27, 2018
Equipment
Watch: Volvo truck platooning system takes to a public highway
Following up on Wednesday’s coverage of Volvo’s demonstration of its three-truck platooning system, here’s a video featuring Volvo engineers discussing how the system works and its benefits, along with a little footage of the trucks platooning down North Carolina’s Highway 540.
June 28, 2018
Channel 19
Autonomous revolution may be nigh, but it’s coming for brokers faster than operators
We've all heard about autonomous trucks, but Noel Perry believes automation will come to brokerage businesses before automated trucks hit the road.
May 23, 2018
Business
Avoiding ‘false alerts’: Primer on the driver-assist systems increasingly common in Class 8s
Bendix’s Fred Andersky presented on what to expect from driver-assistance systems, including crash-mitigation features, as they develop. That includes perhaps the biggest issue drivers have with such systems at present: false, and annoying, alerts.
March 23, 2018
Business
Loadtap’s chatbot dispatch system
The Loadtap platform officially went live on Tuesday, Feb. 27, and one of its central features is an automated chatbot dispatch system those party to the platform can use to communicate with drivers in their private networks.
March 15, 2018
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