From the pre-trip inspection requirements to the driving experience itself – driving an electric Peterbilt 579 appears to be an entirely new and different experience.
Earlier this week, a new bipartisan bill was introduced in the White house, which, if signed into law, would reform some of the regulations for the hours of service (HOS). The bill is backed by one of the trucking industry’s leading trade associations. It also would allow the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to move more quickly on any rulemaking meant to provide drivers with split sleeper berth flexibility pare down the number of supporting documents drivers are required to maintain under the electronic logging device mandate.
On June 6th Daimler Trucks North America unveiled the “broadest electric truck fleet in North America by 2021” according to the company’s President and CEO Roger Nielsen.
The jury in Harris County, Texas made its choice on the tragic events of the Texas fatal crash from 2014, this week. The final verdict is $89.6 million. Werner will appeal the record verdict.
The trucking and logistics industry is entering a period, which some people find exciting and others call it disruptive. It is the period of self-driving trucks, a period in which propulsion systems, driving processes and fuels itself are the subject of a debate. But will the modernization of the trucking industry, the integration of self-driving trucks and automated processes lead to marking the human truck driver as obsolete?
