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Check Call: Accessibility for all

17 January 2023

Welcome to Check Call, our corner of the internet for all things 3PL, freight broker and supply chain. Check Call the podcast comes out every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. EST. Catch up on previous episodes here. If this was forwarded to you, sign up for Check Call the newsletter here.

Inside this edition: Accessibility training for visually impaired freight brokers; California continues to be complicated; and GXO sets the bar high.

Accessibility for all. The Cincinnati Association for...

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Autonomous commercialization needs all hands on deck, especially in California

30 November 2021

As autonomous technology develops, the regulatory environment ⁠— both state and federal ⁠— seems to be slowing the urgency on these efforts. However, during last week’s FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience, Detroit Bureau Chief Alan Adler spoke with Jim Mullen, chief administrative officer at self-driving startup TuSimple, who boldly declared that the commercialization of autonomous trucks will be finalized in 2024.

For the last year and a half, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/autonomous-commercialization-needs-all-hands-on-deck-especially-in-california

New regulations target truck emissions at Southern California warehouses

24 May 2021

A process four years in the making to regulate the emissions of truck traffic in and out of Southern California warehouses reached its end earlier this month with the adoption of a new rule that the warehouse industry says will ratchet up costs in the sector.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved the rule earlier this month. It is known as the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR). The goal of the rule is to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and diesel particulate matter...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-regulations-target-truck-emissions-at-southern-california-warehouses

California proposes electric vehicles standard for rideshare companies

1 April 2021

California’s quest for a cleaner, greener environment is making its way to the rideshare services like Uber (NYSE: UBER) and Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT). The California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued a draft proposal Wednesday that calls for nearly all rides in transportation network companies (TNC), commonly known as rideshare services, to be in electric vehicles by 2030.

The Clean Miles Standard is scheduled to be voted on by the full CARB board on May 20.

The report cited the growing need to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/california-proposes-electric-vehicles-standard-for-rideshare-companies

The Daily Dash: More states consider electric-truck mandates; stay safe and ignore HOS; why electric?

10 July 2020

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening today in the freight ecosystem. In this edition, California is mandating electric-truck sales, and some other states may follow suit. Plus, drivers facing life-or-death situations shouldn’t worry about hours-of-service violations and why are investors so interested in electric-truck makers?

As California goes, so goes the nation

When California announced the world’s first electric-truck sales mandate, it garnered headlines and its fair share of...

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