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David Hartzel Named Head of Mack Defense

David Hartzell has been named president and CEO of Mack Defense - a position he had filled on an interim basis since September 2017. Photo: Mack Trucks

David Hartzell has been named president and chief executive officer of Mack Defense, three years after joining the Mack Trucks subsidiary.

Hartzell joined Mack Trucks in 1988 as a staff engineer. He was named chief engineer for electrical and electronic engineering in 1998, before becoming director of product planning in 2003 and director of product development in 2005. In 2015 he became the director of engineering for Mack Defense and was named senior director of product development, purchasing and projects last year.

Hartzell has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University. He is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mack Defense, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mack Trucks, is responsible for the sale of heavy-duty trucks to federal- and ministerial-level customers globally.

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Uber: Self-Driving Trucks Could Help Alleviate Driver Shortage

Uber stated in a blog post that it expects self-driving trucks to help the industry deal with higher demand. Photo via Uber

Mixed fleets with self-driving long-haul trucks and traditional human-driven regional routes could help the trucking industry address the problem of an aging driver workforce, said Uber in a recent company blog post.

In the post, Uber argued that rather than a future of autonomous trucks replacing the humans in the trucking workforce with robots, the technology could be used to both alleviate the driver shortage and help make the existing driving jobs more appealing to younger prospective drivers.

Quoting statistics from American Trucking Associations, Uber stated that the truck driving workforce is currently much older than the average, 49 vs. 42, and as many as 400,000 current drivers are expected to retire in the next decade. Over the same period of time, freight demand is expected to increase and would require an influx of around 900,000 drivers to keep up with demand.

Uber is currently making its foray into the trucking industry through its Uber Freight load matching app, and the company also says it is at the forefront of self-driving vehicle technology. The company states in the blog post that using a system of transfer hubs, the transportation industry could meld mixed fleets of self-driving trucks with more localized traditional trucks in order to meet the growing demand.

Strategically placed around the country, these transfer hubs could receive goods transported by self-driving trucks that are specifically designed for highway driving. The freight would be delivered to and from hubs where regional trucks would distribute the freight to its final destination.

This method would also help accelerate the usefulness of current self-driving technology which is already being tested on open highways but still faces technical hurdles when it ...Read the rest of this story

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