MONTREAL, QUE. Is the heavy trucking industry the poster child for automation or the problem child? It's a question that moderator Peter Sweatman, a co-founding principal at CAVita, posed to a panel of transportation experts discussing platooning and autonomous trucking here at Michelin's Movin'On Conference on sustainable mobility.
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...Read the rest of this storyThis week Michelin hosted its 2017 Movin'On Conference on sustainable mobility in Montreal, Que. The conference grounds hosted thousands of attendees and various seminars, workshops and brainstorming sessions that tackled upcoming regulations, sustainable transportation and community efforts, and new visionary tire concepts. Michelin also announced it will return to Montreal in 2018 for another conference.
Here are some of the highlights from this year's event. (Photos: Cristina Commendatore/Fleet Owner)
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I think that technology is amazing, and here at Penske Truck Leasing we're using it to make our customer's lives easier if a truck breakdown occurs. In the most recent past (and in some cases still in the present) the mere appearance of a CEL [check engine light] or MIL [malfunction indicator light] indicator on the dashboard would create an emotional response from the driver.
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