2017 MCE News Updates

Special coverage of the 2017 Management Conference and Exhibition from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 21-24, 2017.

Business, Technology

MCE Panel Lays Out Truckings Triumphs, Challenges

ORLANDO, Fla. The North American Free Trade Agreement needs updating, but the process appears frozen in adversarial positions, even as truckload freight has grown 4% over the past five month, panelists here said.

October 23, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Human-Machine Interaction, Computing Power Key to Development of Autonomous Trucks

ORLANDO, Fla. To pave the way for autonomous trucks, technology developers will need to refine the interaction between the human and the machine, and add more advanced sensors and greater computing power to the vehicle, experts said.

October 23, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment

Navistar Announces Price Increases, New Services

ORLANDO, Fla. Navistar International Corp. announced price increases of up to 2% for its model-year 2019 vehicles, citing rising commodity prices. The price increases may affect all product lines and classes of trucks and dont single out Class 8 trucks.

October 23, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Driver Shortage Returns to Top of ATRIs Survey of Critical Industry Issues

ORLANDO, Fla. The driver shortage has regained its status as the trucking industrys most pressing concern for the first time since 2006, American Transportation Research Institute reported.

October 23, 2017
Government, Business, Safety

Item Response Theory Model Has Potential to Reduce Crashes, FMCSA Says

ORLANDO, Fla. A new complex statistical model that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is exploring would utilize data to measure a motor carriers safety culture, rather than attempt to predict its likelihood of a crash, a top agency official said.

October 22, 2017
Government, Business

Industry Awaits $1 Trillion Infrastructure Funding Plan to Modernize Roads, ATA Official Says

ORLANDO, Fla. The Trump administrations plan to boost funding for freight corridors and modernize outdated infrastructure would benefit the commercial transportation sector, a senior official with American Trucking Associations said during a seminar at the groups annual conference Oct. 22.

October 22, 2017
Business, Technology, Autonomous

Autonomy Could Transform Truckings Future, Former GM Exec Says

ORLANDO, Fla. Autonomous trucks could give rise to a future in which 90% of crashes are eliminated and transportation becomes dramatically more productive and cost effective, technology expert Larry Burns told industry executives here.

October 22, 2017
Business, Technology

Help Launches ELD and Weigh Station Apps

ORLANDO, Fla. Help Inc. announced two new apps one in the crowded electronic logging device field, and another as a mobile weigh station bypass app.

October 22, 2017
Business

Twelve Chosen for Fifth LEAD ATA Class

ORLANDO, Fla. American Trucking Associations named its fifth class to the LEAD ATA industry leadership program and announced the graduation of the fourth class during the annual ATA Management Conference & Exhibition.

October 22, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment

Lytx Upgrades Rair to Meet ELD Mandate

ORLANDO, Fla. Lytx has upgraded its Rair Compliance Services program so clients can better meet the looming electronic logging device mandate, the video-based safety services vendor announced Oct. 22 at American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition.

October 22, 2017