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Torc tackles beyond-the-truck autonomous issues

How will the “personas” of dispatchers, maintenance technicians and roadside assistance change as autonomous trucks arrive? Torc Robotics is working with major fleets to find out.

Torc differs from its major competitors in preparing to launch fully integrated autonomous Freightliner Cascadias into commerce.

The independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck moves deliberately. Aurora Innovation and Kodiak Robotics target late 2024 for their first commercial routes with driverless trucks. Torc is looking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/torc-tackles-beyond-the-truck-autonomous-issues

Sysco Louisville Teamsters strike ends, 1st deal signed 

A strike by Teamsters members at a Sysco facility in Louisville, Kentucky, ended over the weekend with the signing of the first-ever contract between the members of Local 89 and the food distribution giant.

Workers, most of them drivers, had voted in favor of Teamsters recognition in August but had not been able to reach agreement on a contract. In a coordinated move, workers at Sysco in Louisville and in Indianapolis, where a contract had expired at the beginning of March, simultaneously went...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sysco-louisville-teamsters-strike-ends-1st-deal-signed

Teamsters on strike at 2 Sysco sites; separately, voted out at Seneca warehouse   

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Teamsters drivers at two facilities of food distributor Sysco have gone on strike, the second time...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamsters-on-strike-at-2-sysco-sites-but-voted-out-at-wisconsin-facility

Is Range Energy’s electrification push the future of trailers?

Making the cooling units on refrigerated trucks run on electricity instead of diesel saves fuel and reduces emissions. Startup Range Energy is betting investor money that trailer electrification can do more than just prevent liquified ice cream from arriving at the grocery store.

“What we’re doing is bringing all of the electrification that you see happening in vehicles and in power units to the trailer,” said Ali Javidan, Range Energy founder and CEO and former head of vehicle prototyping at...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-range-energys-electrification-push-the-future-of-trailers

1 Sysco driver/warehouse worker strike over, 2nd may end soon

One of the two Teamsters strikes against units of food transporter and supplier Sysco Corp. has been settled, while the second is on the verge of ending.

According to the Buffalo News and television station WWNY, that had not been confirmed by either the Teamsters or Sysco by publication time, the strike against the Sysco facilities in Syracuse, New York, ended earlier this week.

The Teamsters union had earlier said that it had more than 230 workers on strike in Syracuse. They were represented by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/1-sysco-driver-warehouse-worker-strike-over-2nd-may-end-soon

Teamsters, most of them drivers, on strike at 2 Sysco facilities

Teamsters union members at two distribution centers operated by giant food distributor Sysco are on strike and negotiations have deteriorated significantly in the past day. 

The Teamsters late Wednesday released a statement that said negotiations for both groups of workers broke down and the strikes are continuing. 

A strike by Teamsters members against Sysco’s distribution center in Syracuse, New York, is entering its second week. And in Plympton, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, Teamsters from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamsters-most-of-them-drivers-on-strike-at-2-sysco-facilities

Nikola whistleblower enriched by short seller may get more $$$

Paul Lackey worked as a contractor for Nikola in the early days of the electric truck company. On the witness stand in Trevor Milton’s fraud trial this week, he spoke of a founder more interested in making money than cleaning up the environment. 

But Lackey wasn’t exactly a dream witness for the prosecution. He collected about $600,000 in stock sale proceeds after aligning himself with short sellers that nearly crushed the startup.

As the prosecution’s first witness on Tuesday in a trial expected...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-whistleblower-enriched-by-short-seller-may-get-more

Electric trucks: Sysco signs for record 800 Freightliner eCascadias

Driver's side view of white and green Freightliner eCascadia

Food distribution giant Sysco Corp.intends to purchase up to 800 Class 8 Freightliner eCascadia electric trucks from Daimler Truck North America, by far the largest order of battery-powered tractors in North America to date.

The booking is equal to roughly 80% of the 987 electric trucks ordered across all of Daimler Truck globally in 2021. And it suggests the nascent adoption of zero-tailpipe-emission commercial vehicles is moving into a higher gear.

“It seems like one of the bigger real orders...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/record-order-for-freightliner-electric-trucks

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