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NFI driver reflects on 30-year career, 6 million safe miles

Roger Daily has racked up 6 million safe miles as a driver for NFI

Roger Daily credits his dad’s incredible work ethic and a man named Cliff Capps for his 30-year trucking career and an impressive 6 million safe miles behind the wheel as a driver for NFI Industries.

Daily, 55, of Tampa, Florida, said he never kept track of how many miles he had driven over the years, thinking he may have had between 4 million and 5 million miles under his belt, so he was surprised when he got a call from NFI that he had reached the 6 million-mile mark. 

“I guess I work hard,” he...

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FreightTech 25: No. 9 Daimler drives trucking’s electric future

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) CEO Roger Nielsen declared his company’s intentions for alternative power in trucking nearly two years ago.

“The road to emissions-free transportation is going to be driven with battery-electric vehicles,” Nielsen told the ACT Expo in April 2019. “I believe the future is electric.”

Throughout 2020, the No. 9 company in the FreightTech 25 recorded hundreds of thousands of battery-powered electric miles as it prepares for regular production of electric trucks....

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PACCAR puts charge into electric trucks with infrastructure plan

Kenworth and Peterbilt expect to sell a few hundred electric trucks in coming years. They will account for less than 1% of total revenue for parent PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR). But bundling charging units with the trucks improves the revenue picture dramatically.

“We like to make money in everything we do,” PACCAR CEO Preston Feight said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Oct. 20. “And that’s our model for electric vehicles (EVs) as well as for anything else we do.”

PACCAR is taking...

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The Daily Dash: Drug test failures jump; TRATON puts forward best offer for Navistar

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, September saw an increase in truck driver drug test failures. Plus, TRATON makes a final offer in its bid to acquire Navistar and Waymo pulls back the curtain – a little bit – on its autonomous technology.

More drivers failing drug tests

Positive drug tests among truck drivers increased 8% in September, and most have not started the return-to-duty process to regain their eligible status to drive.

John...

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Logistics giant NFI Industries adding 5,000 jobs

Supply chain solutions provider NFI Industries is hiring 5,000 people before the end of 2020 to speed holiday shipments and meet the pandemic-induced demand for goods to manage life at home and work under the same roof.

Other evidence: Per-mile freight rates are rising along with tender rejections. Fleets ordered 52,000 new trailers in September, the third-highest order month on record.

Some of the new NFI jobs are seasonal. Others are full-time positions. The company wants experienced and novice...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-giant-nfi-industries-adding-5000-jobs

Best transportation companies for female employees named

The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) has released its 2020 list of the top transportation companies for females.

The annual Top Companies for Women to Work for in Transportation list was created by WIT magazine Redefining the Road in 2018 as part of its mission to promote the accomplishments of businesses focused on the employment of females in the trucking industry.

Companies making the list this year were listed alphabetically, beginning with AGT Global Logistics, founded and led by Angela...

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Ike lines up fleet customers for driverless trucks

Autonomous trucking software developer Ike is partnering with three major logistics customers to deploy highly automated Level 4 trucks for highway driving, the startup said Tuesday.

Logistics providers Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), DHL, and NFI Industries will be among the first customers, Ike said in a press release announcing the multi-year “Powered by Ike” program. Other participants will be named later.

Ike’s vision is for automated trucks to drive on the highway. They would hand off loads...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ike-lines-up-fleet-customers-for-driverless-trucks

Prologis to train 25,000 workers to bridge logistics ‘hiring gap’

Ambassador Row facility in Dallas

San Francisco-based real estate investment trust Prologis Inc. (NYSE: PLD) announced plans to prepare 25,000 people for a career in transportation, distribution and logistics through its Prologis Community Workforce Initiative (CWI), which was launched in 2018.

The plan seeks to improve career pathways and create economic opportunity throughout the communities where it operates, according to the Wednesday press release. Prologis CWI has teamed up with national workforce nonprofit JFF to build a...

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