Monitoring NATCO-Related Issues. The ELD Rule The Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate went into effect on February 16th of this year and has a compliance date of December 18, 2017. This requires the installation of automatic onboard recording devices on […]

NATCO Keeps Eyes on the Future. One of the major parts of NATCO’s operations is tapping freight trends—studying where the industry is, where it’s going, and how those changes may affect the transport business. We’ve all heard about disruptors. A […]

More Benefits of Speaking with an Actual Human. We have plenty to say about automation in the freight industry. On the one hand we’re all in favor of great, tried-and-true technology that helps streamline communications and helps with safety for […]

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 […]

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 […]