May 31 has come and gone, and the Highway Trust Fund is fixed–for two months. No topic has been hotter on highways, or colder in Congress, than infrastructure funding. For the past several months, stakeholders and state leaders have shuddered under siege, awaiting resupply of the starved Highway Trust Fund…
This article was inspired by the input and insight of real-life truckers and other friends and fans in response to last week’s blog, “Anatomy of Autonomy: Profile of a Self-Driving Truck.” Thank you for your comments! You can follow the conversation on our official Facebook page. It makes sense that…
Two weeks ago, a big rig drove itself around Hoover Dam in Las Vegas, surrounded by flashing lights and screaming crowds. This world premiere wasn’t a sequel to Steven King’s Maximum Overdrive. With flourish and fanfare, Freightline’s silver and electric blue “Inspiration” rolled itself out before a cheering crowd. The…
“Mark my word. A combination airplane and motor car is coming.” – Henry Ford, 1940 Happy National Transportation Week, also known as Infrastructure Week. Thousands of stakeholders in business, labor, and advocacy are coming together in Washington and around the country to highlight the critical importance of investing in transportation…
Next week is both National Transportation Week and National Police Week. In honor of these two observances near and dear to our auto-obsessed hearts, here are five incidents involving insane drivers and the police who brought them to justice. If At First You Don’t Succeed In Denver, Colorado, police chased…
This past March, we addressed the current infrastructure reform issue and the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), set to run out this summer. Two months later and frighteningly close to the deadline–estimates range from May 31 to as late as August–there is still no plan in motion to restore infrastructure funding…