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Capitol Agenda for the Week of May 23: A Vow From Rep. Graves

The Trump administration is unveiling its fiscal 2018 budget request right before we all hit the road for Memorial Day and get stuck in that bumper-to-bumper traffic. But relief is in sight if Rep. Sam Graves has anything to say about it. Here's the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill.

May 23, 2017

Uber Threatens to Fire Anthony Levandowski

Uber Technologies Inc. threatened to fire the man at the center of its legal battle with Alphabet Inc., telling its top driverless technology engineer, Anthony Levandowski, to either deny taking files from his former employer or turn them over.

May 19, 2017

Amazon's Delivery-Drone Research Focuses on Avoiding Birds

Amazon.com Inc.’s development of package-delivery drones is progressing to the point where the company is now thinking a lot about geese.

May 18, 2017

Daimler Trucks North America Opens $18.7 Million Truck Proving Grounds

MADRAS, Ore. — Daimler Trucks North America opened its $18.7 million High Desert Proving Grounds here May 18. It will enable the parent of Freightliner and Western Star Trucks to do more broad-based vehicle testing not far from its Portland headquarters.

May 19, 2017

Analysis: Autonomous Ships Will Be Great

Doing away with sailors will make the high seas safer and cleaner.

May 17, 2017

Uber Launches App-Based Freight Platform

After surging to prominence with its ride-hailing app for car passengers, Uber Technologies Inc. is targeting trucking as its next big venture.

May 18, 2017

More Than Half of Drivers Still Aren't ELD-Compliant, ONE20 Survey Finds

With six months to go before the government-mandated electronic logging device rule takes effect for most commercial truck drivers, a survey of drivers finds that fewer than half are ELD-compliant.

May 18, 2017

Uber Ordered to Return Stolen Waymo Files

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber Technologies Inc. must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo self-driving car unit, a federal judge ruled May 15, while stopping short of shutting down the ride-services company's autonomous car program.

May 16, 2017

Sen. James Inhofe: Every Funding Option for an Infrastructure Plan ‘On the Table’

WASHINGTON — A funding proposal for the country’s infrastructure system would likely entail myriad options, such as public-private partnerships and raising taxes on fuel, the former chairman of the Senate transportation committee told reporters May 16.

May 16, 2017