Peloton Technology says its truck platooning system has been shown to deliver fuel efficiency gains of 4.5% for the lead truck and 10% for the following truck. MONTREAL, QUE. Platooning is just one ...

WASHINGTON — While truck-to-truck communication, driver training and safety have advanced the effort to hasten platooning to market, another critical aspect is looming and just may cause this momentum ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The effects of truck platooning on the nation’s infrastructure continues to be studied, federal officials told the American Society of Civil Engineers’ International Conference on ...

The global truck platooning market reached a value of US$ 1.86 billion in 2021. Looking forward, the market is projected to reach a value of US$ 9.66 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 30.20% ...

For many fleet managers, platooning seems like a dream come true - two trucks traveling in line, very close to each other, saving fuel without sacrificing safety. Platooning saves fuel because two ...

Truck platoons are moving beyond the interstate highways. A pair of two-hour Breakout Sessions, one focused on truck platooning and the other on solo driverless trucking, were organized and moderated ...

When Daimler Trucks announced in January plans shelve its truck platooning program, I think it took a lot of industry-types by surprise. In reassessing its work on truck platooning – a practice the ...

A Pittsburgh-based automation technology company has teamed up with Wilson Logistics, a 48-state trucking and logistics company, to launch an automated platooning initiative starting this spring.

Peloton CEO Josh Switkes said the company is seeing even better fuel economy results on public roads than was anticipated based on previous research and ongoing track tests. Earlier this week, at the ...

Peloton CEO Josh Switkes says attitudes in the trucking industry toward the viability of truck platooning have shifted dramatically in the past couple of years. Photo: Peloton Technology Early-adoptor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I first rode in a self-driving vehicle in 1991. Haven’t looked back. Driverless truck technology is being adapted to double the ...