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AS REPORTED BY MARK SCHREMMER FOR LANDLINE MAG The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is speaking out against a bill that would force the U.S. Department of Transportation to push through a rule to mandate sleep apnea testing for trucker drivers. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., introduced the bill on Thursday, Sept. 28. While the full text […]

AS REPORTED BY NEIL ABT FOR FLEET OWNER Leaders with the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee announced they reached an agreement on legislation overseeing self-driving vehicles that excludes commercial trucks. The Senate bill is similar to one the House unanimously passed in September that would allow automakers sell thousands of autonomous vehicles, provided they […]

AS REPORTED BY EDWARD GRAHAM FOR MORNING CONSULT Proposed Senate legislation that would speed up the production and development of self-driving cars does not apply to the production of automated trucks, but a Senate Commerce Committee spokesman said that doesn’t mean that self-driving trucks won’t get similar regulatory relief in the future. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), […]

AS REPORTED BY KEITH LAING FOR THE DETROIT NEWS Washington — The prospect of self-driving cars, trucks and buses has sparked alarm about job losses among professional drivers, one of the largest employment sectors for those without a college education. Auto manufacturers and tech companies have promised that self-driving cars will revolutionize mobility and boost safety on […]

AS REPORTED BY KEITH LAING FOR THE DETROIT NEWS Washington — President Donald Trump’s proposal to spend $1 trillion to improve the nation’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure has been stuck in neutral as he struggles to advance his legislative priorities in Congress. But the president who built his national reputation as a deal-maker struck an accord […]

AS REPORTED BY JERRY BOWLES FOR DIGINOMICA Driverless automobiles are an important step closer to becoming a reality on American roads.  The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed—by a vote of 54 to 0–the first significant federal legislation aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market. The measure, called the SELF-DRIVE Act, would require automakers to submit […]

AS REPORTED BY SAM SACKS FOR THE DISTRICT SENTINEL A bill that would open US roadways to hundreds of thousands of automated vehicles over the next half decade passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Almost entirely absent from consideration were the hundreds of thousands of human drivers who stand to be replaced by the burgeoning […]

AS REPORTED BY SABRINA EATON FOR CLEVELAND.COM WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would speed development of self-driving cars by letting companies like Google, Uber and Honda deploy up to 100,000 of them each year without obtaining advance approval for their autonomous vehicle technologies. Bowling Green GOP Rep. Bob […]

AS REPORTED BY TONY ROMM FOR RECODE The U.S. House approved a bill on Wednesday that could soon pave the way for Ford, Google, Uber and other companies to deploy hundreds of thousands of new self-driving cars on the country’s roads. But the measure isn’t yet law — it still has to survive the slow-moving Senate, […]

AS REPORTED BY TED REED IN FORBES Let’s just say upfront that this is not a good time for the labor movement. Membership has declined for decades; high visibility organizing campaigns in the South keep failing; few gains were made during the tenure of a moderately pro-union president and now an anti-union president, leading a virulently […]