May 31, 2016
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother. Here’s some trivia for you: one of the top four busiest scales in the nation is just north of Houston—near Huntsville, on I-45—and it writes out one of the top number of violations in […]
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May 24, 2016
An Update to Questionable Autonomy. Recently, we wrote about the European Platooning Challenge and the prospect of driverless trucks on our nation’s highways. As a follow up, now comes San Francisco’s Otto Motors, which is developing a system similar to […]
May 18, 2016
Generally Speaking. Full disclosure: We would much rather our potential and repeat clients ask us too many questions than not enough questions. In our view, everybody wins when everybody is on the same page. And with that, we want to […]
May 10, 2016
Fuel is Just One Factor This week, Transport Topics reported that diesel prices have risen eleven times in twelve weeks—this last time by 6.8 cents a gallon. Still, the current national average of $2.271 remains more than 60 cents below […]
May 3, 2016
Why The Driverless Truck Might Not Fly. Recently, we came across this article—“A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe.” Driverless trucks, pre-mapped routes, connections via wifi…and not one of the 12 trucks with a human driver. On first […]
April 26, 2016
What Makes NATCO Different Moving toward a quarter of a century in freight logistics, we’ve capitalized on our experience to provide the best management of our customer needs and requests. So: 25 years in this business. We could tell you […]
April 19, 2016
Safety First for Transport. NATCO’s core specialty is in the oversize/overweight and heavy haul transportation logistics. And safety is our top priority for each and every one of our contracts with customers. The US Bureau of Transportation Statics reports that, […]