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Kodiak Installs Autonomous Driving System on Electric Truck
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Autonomous truck developer Kodiak Robotics unveiled a battery-electric Class 8 truck equipped with its self-driving technology at the 2023 ACT Expo.
DTNA’s O’Leary: No Time to Waste Building EV Infrastructure
ANAHEIM, Calif. — DTNA chief John O’Leary called for the industry to move at “the speed of right” in developing electric vehicle infrastructure.
Japan Airlines to Debut Its First Freighter Planes in 13 Years
Japan Airlines Co. will introduce three new cargo planes for the first time in more than a decade, seeking to diversify revenue by tapping into global and local consumer demand.
Drone delivery firm Zipline raises $330M at $4.2B valuation
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Flying.com. There are plenty of ways to measure the success of drone delivery firms: trip volume, coverage area, regulatory approvals and so on. But if you’re looking at…
Scheduling Standards Consortium grows ranks, readies API release
The Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) has added seven partners as it prepares new open application programming interface scheduling standards to be released by the end of the year. Digital freight brokers Uber Freight…
Supply chain index hits all-time low in April
A monthly survey of activity in the supply chain published Tuesday registered an all-time low in April. The Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI) produced a reading of 50.9 during the month, a new low for the 6.5-year-old data…
FBX Report: May 02, 2023
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Packaging demand bubble has popped
FreightWaves has published several stories in recent weeks about ongoing weakness in U.S. packaging demand, the result of intensifying pressure on Americans’ inflation-adjusted income as unprecedented government stimulus…
Do We Have to Subscribe to Restaurants, Too?
Why restaurants — and customers — are signing on for memberships and subscriptions I have too many subscriptions. There are the streaming services — Netflix, Hulu, Disney+; there’s Amazon Prime, which allows me to “subscribe…
Crop Watch: Winter barley races away and late start to maize
Farmers Weekly April turned out to only be marginally better than March, prolonging the struggle to get spring crops drilled and keep on top of spraying. But while field work progress has been slow, winter barley has raced…
