By: AJOT | Feb 08 2023 at 12:14 PMIntercomp, a worldwide manufacturer of fixed and portable vehicle weighing and measurement products, has expanded their weight and balance expertise to the autonomous trucking sector.\nThere are several scale lines recommended for measuring autonomous trucks: LS630-WIM™, LP788™, LS-WIM™, and LTR788™.\nThe LS630-WIM™ Portable Weigh-In-Motion Scale is a hybrid system that brings together our experience in both WIM technology and our long history of developing innovative portable truck scales.\nFor over 40 years, Intercomp has provided superior-quality portable and in-ground weighing systems, along with the highest levels of customer satisfaction, for a wide range of industries.\nAs the axle-weighing specialist, Intercomp’s static wheel and axle scales and dynamic weigh-in-motion systems are designed with the most innovative technology in the world.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Partnerships play key role in journey to autonomous trucks","slug":"partnerships-play-key-role-in-journey-to-autonomous-trucks","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:43.314822","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"The journey toward highly autonomous trucks continues, and there seems to be no shortage of paths to get there.\nWhen he began researching autonomous vehicles in 2016, he faced comments like “not in our lifetime” from internal staff and OEMs alike.\nThe question, then, is where autonomous trucks will emerge at any scale.\n(Photo: Business Wire)Real-world autonomous vehicle testsThe potential operational gains are not even limited to a future when highly autonomous trucks are not constrained by Hours of Service.\nGE Appliances is partnering with Einride in an autonomous vehicle test that shuttles goods between a warehouse and factory in Tennessee.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Luck Stone, Caterpillar venturing into the unknown - Pit & Quarry","slug":"luck-stone-caterpillar-venturing-into-the-unknown-pit-quarry","publishDate":"2023-02-06 10:00:53+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:42.682418","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Charlie Luck IV, president and CEO of Luck Stone, says his grandfather, Charles Luck Jr., operated this way after establishing the family company in 1923.\nLuck’s grandfather ventured into the unknown when he concluded Luck Stone could crush rock with electric power rather than steam in the 1930s.\nNow, Luck Stone is once again venturing into new territory.\nWorking with Caterpillar, Luck Stone plans to deploy autonomous haul trucks at its Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Virginia.\nBut this also isn’t the first time Luck Stone has ventured into the unknown.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Electric, Autonomous Trucks Hold Promise, Executives Say","slug":"electric-autonomous-trucks-hold-promise-executives-say","publishDate":"2023-02-08 16:10:24-05:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:42.114659","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"pic.twitter.com/hq13aC8YnV — Seth Clevenger (@SethClevenger) February 1, 2023He said J.B. Hunt ordered some electric trucks as far back as 2017 that the company still hasn’t received.\nHarper contrasted the scarcity of charging infrastructure for electric trucks with the abundant existing diesel fueling network established over the past half century.\nMuch like the introduction of battery-electric trucks, the rollout of autonomous driving technology will be a gradual process, said James Reed, chief operating officer for autonomous truck developer Kodiak Robotics.\nTo bring autonomous trucks to market, Daimler has partnered with two developers of automated driving technology — its independent subsidiary Torc Robotics and autonomous vehicle firm Waymo.\nWhile Daimler has designed its autonomous-ready Cascadia with a diesel powertrain, Buttler said the development of autonomous driving and electric trucks could intersect in the future.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Government backs £81m autonomous bus and truck pilots","slug":"government-backs-ps81m-autonomous-bus-and-truck-pilots","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:41.357764","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Government backs £81m autonomous bus and truck pilotsPeter StonhamBus and truck operators and local authorities will be sharing the lead with technology developers in seven new autonomous passenger transport and freight projects in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Sunderland, Belfast, Solihull and Coventry.\nThey are being backed by Government funding for specialist applications of driverless technologies some see as more likely to get early adoption than fully driverless cars.\nThe Projects across the country are all intended to demonstrate sustainable commercial CAV services by 2025.\nThe government is awarding almost £42 million to 7 projects through the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) competition.\nThis is a massive opportunity to drive forward our priority to grow the economy, which we are determined to seize.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Truckers Weigh In On Comfort, Safety, & Autonomous Trucks","slug":"truckers-weigh-in-on-comfort-safety-autonomous-trucks","publishDate":"2023-02-08 23:00:32+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:39.762310","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"More younger drivers – 57% – said a late model truck was important than did drivers 35-54 years old – 43% – and drivers older than 55 – 48%.\nAnd, those drivers under the age of 34 said that late model trucks ought to look good.\nLikewise for collision mitigation systems, which 38% of company drivers chose compared to 36% of the owner-operators.\nSlightly more company drivers – 38% – chose them, while 30% of owner-operators did.\nThey two were about dead even when it came eo ELDs: 37% of company drivers chose them, while 36% of owner-operators did.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Attorney John Day: Accidents with Big Rigs","slug":"attorney-john-day-accidents-with-big-rigs","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:38.056051","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Attorney John Day: Accidents with Big RigsFeb 09, 2023 at 09:10 am by Producer
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"National labs, Wabtec partner to develop next-gen locomotive engine","slug":"national-labs-wabtec-partner-to-develop-next-gen-locomotive-engine","publishDate":"2023-02-07 13:15:00+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-10 14:30:36.237841","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Rail technology provider Wabtec (NYSE: WAB) and scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory are working together to develop a hybrid locomotive engine that can run on both hydrogen and diesel.\nOak Ridge reached out to Wabtec in June 2021 about housing the engine at the national laboratory.\nSo, we’re having to pull in and upgrade all of the sides [since the lab was set up for light-duty vehicles].”(Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S.\nIt will develop computer simulations to help guide some of the hardware design and the experiments Oak Ridge will be working on, Pihl said.\nOak Ridge will then feed the data back to Argonne so it can improve the simulations.
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