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Business

Google confirms self-driving truck platform in the works

Google parent company Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, Waymo, is developing a self-driving truck platform, the company confirmed Thursday.

June 2, 2017

Business

Uber’s self-driving truck venture shaken up as legal woes mount

With legal trouble swirling around Uber’s autonomous truck venture, the company has fired Anthony Levandowski, the founder of the autonomous truck company Otto and a star engineer with Uber and, formerly, Google. The company also quietly announced last month it dropped the name Otto, as it was facing a lawsuit by a Canadian-based robotics company of the same name.

May 31, 2017

Business

Latest ‘uber for trucking’ launches app — this time, it’s from Uber itself

“Uber for trucking,” long considered a freight-matching unicorn, has come to a kind of fruition, with the ride-sharing giant today unveiling its brokerage’s Uber Freight matching app aimed at the owner-operator market with a focus on dry van and reefer loads.

May 18, 2017

Business

Tech giants Google, Uber battling in court over autonomous truck secrets

Google and its subsidiary Waymo claim Uber and Otto Trucking stole thousands of documents and company trade secrets. Uber denies the claims. A judge Monday issued an injunction against Uber and Otto.

May 16, 2017

Channel 19

Senators ask GAO to assess autonomous trucks’ potential to displace workers

In the wake of the FMCSA’s Monday listening session on regulating the highly automated driving environment expected in the future, Senators Susan Collins and Jack Reed request GAO study the issue of job displacement — more commentary from the session explored here.

April 27, 2017

Channel 19

If Trump really wants to save U.S. jobs …

“If he (Trump) cares about the working man, he’ll stop this talk about driverless trucks.” –Trucker Jerry Jackson in Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial about autonomous vehicle tech threats.

January 5, 2017

Business

Autonomous truck startup Otto set to haul second load, this time in traffic

Unlike last month’s Budweiser delivery, which was done during pre-dawn hours to avoid traffic and pedestrians in the Denver, Colo.-area, this week’s run truck will include driving through traffic.

November 28, 2016

Business

Automated beer run: Self-driving truck makes first delivery, hauls load of Budweiser

Automated trucking hit a milestone last week, with Uber-acquired upstart Otto delivering 51 cases of Budweiser in Colorado Springs, Colo., last week. The truck left Fort Collins, Colo., last Thursday before dawn, navigated through downtown Denver and then made its delivery in Colorado Springs.

October 25, 2016

Business

Only those with voices in their head need apply

Consider the internal conversation one may have while doing a little internet research on trucking. “After three hours of Googling, I still don’t know if I want to be a trucker.”

October 17, 2016

Business

Next Trucking — latest tech-enabled brokerage, freight-marketplace hybrid

Next Trucking's new Android smartphone app and freight marketplace connects broker iDC Logistics' universe of shippers directly to owner-operators.

October 29, 2015

Channel 19

Latest ‘uber for trucking’ brokerage launches app

The Transfix brokerage’s app offers a variety of free services in exchange for the opportunity to push load offers to drivers well-situated to cover them.

June 12, 2015

Business

On-demand load matching: Where it’s on the way

Tech startups aimed at long-haul TL need critical mass of freight, carrier capacity and more to compete with systems entrenched in the freight market, themselves adopting some Uber-like functionality.

April 3, 2015