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- DTL Commits to 75 Kodiak Autonomous Trucks
What does the agreement cover? DTL Transport has signed a binding agreement to deploy 75 trucks equipped with Kodiak AI’s autonomous driving system. Announced October 28, 2026, the deal expands the Fresno, California-based carrier’s relationship with Kodiak beyond an earlier produce-hauling pilot. DTL will own and operate the vehicles rather than simply purchase freight transportation from Kodiak. However, this commitment does not mean all 75 trucks have already entered driverless commercial service. Under the Driver-as-a-Service model, DTL will pay a per-mile fee for the Kodiak Driver. This separates truck ownership from access to the autonomous driving technology. Kodiak describes the agreement as the first publicly announced definitive commitment by an interstate carrier to operate driverless trucks within its own fleet under this model. The family-owned carrier has more than 36 years of experience and operates a fleet exceeding 100 trucks. Where will DTL deploy these trucks? The initial routes will connect Dallas with El Paso, Texas, and Dallas with Atlanta, Georgia. Kodiak has already tested these corridors, and the companies plan to add more lanes over time. The Atlanta route uses Interstate 20, while both lanes support DTL’s produce business. DTL specializes in cross-country team operations serving major grocery customers. President and CEO Lucky Dosanjh said autonomous technology would complement the company’s workforce and expand capacity. However, the announcement did not quantify anticipated savings or specify how all 75 trucks would be phased into service. How did California testing shape the partnership? The partnership began with a pilot on September 22, hauling perishable products between Fresno and a Los Angeles distribution center. Those deliveries followed Kodiak’s receipt of a California heavy-duty autonomous vehicle testing permit in August. A human safety driver remained behind the wheel during this initial work. The companies used the pilot to examine potential effects on transit times, transportation costs, and produce shelf life. DTL also explored whether autonomous equipment could provide extra capacity when demand exceeded available trucks. Importantly, California testing with a safety driver was separate from the proposed fully driverless interstate deployment. What other deployments is Kodiak planning? Separately, Kodiak planned to launch driverless highway service for IKEA between Dallas and Houston by the end of 2026. That service would use Interstate 45. The DTL commitment therefore represents another customer deployment, not confirmation that all 75 vehicles would begin operating during 2026. Kodiak’s industrial Driver-as-a-Service operations began in December 2024 with Atlas Energy… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Flouting Consumer Law, Insurers Refuse to Pay Medical Bills for Emergency Care
A law to end surprise medical bills has generated millions of high-dollar payouts for doctors. Health plans are now fighting back by frequently withholding money. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Four Bridge Walks Across the Hudson RiverSeeking renewal, a writer took to walking across bridges that span the river, coming away with a new perspective. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- The Election-Denier Backpedal
Standing next to Donald Trump at a rally in 2022, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity told the crowd that Trump had “won” the 2020 election. Garrity is now running for governor—and she has a very different view of the contest: Joe Biden was the rightful winner, she told reporters earlier this year. As for her assertion four years prior? She had simply gotten “caught up” in the excitement of the Trump rally. This summer, Rick Jackson, a billionaire running for governor in Georgia, suggested using the National Guard to combat alleged election fraud. At a recent debate, he denied ever making the comment, and said that he saw no need for federal intervention in the state’s elections.Garrity and Jackson are not the only Republicans who seem to be rethinking earlier stances that called into question whether election results can be trusted. Trump has long relied on his political allies to amplify the conspiracy theories and falsehoods that have consumed his attention for years. But even though he can’t seem to stop talking about the issue—just last week, Trump offered a $1 million reward to tipsters who help uncover voter fraud ahead of Tuesday’s midterms—others in the party have gone quiet.Many GOP candidates seem to realize that to stand a chance, they need their voters to trust the system and cast their ballot. Political strategists and election experts told us that there are diminishing returns for the GOP in trying to persuade Americans to care about Trump’s six-year-old fraud claims. The system worked well enough to reelect Trump, and the president has failed to produce credible evidence that voter fraud is a threat to the midterms. “Saying that elections are rigged in this country, saying that Donald Trump really won the 2020 election, is not something that appeals to voters in general elections,” Kelly Rader, a research director for States United Action, a nonpartisan election-protection group, told us. Rader and her colleagues, who maintain a database of election deniers seeking office, found that fewer are running this year compared with four years ago. She was not surprised that the ones who are have been downplaying their election skepticism.Democrats have been more than happy to remind opponents about their previous promotion of election denial. In Pennsylvania, Janelle Stelson is running to unseat the longtime Republican Representative Scott Perry, a close ally of the president. (The January 6 committee found that Perry had… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Maybe the Republican Fever Will Finally Break This Time
In 12 U.S. Senate contests, polls that sampled voters since October 18 show average leads of five points or less. Factor in statistical margins of error and the possibility of momentum shifts too late for polls to capture, and a very wide range of outcomes is possible. But to take the polls at face value, the Blue Wave is coming. Not only does Democratic control of the House appear to be a lock, but Democrats are also poised to net at least six Senate seats—giving them a 53-seat majority. Such a victory runs through four states that Donald Trump won by double digits two years ago: Alaska, Kansas, Texas, and Ohio. The prospect of Democrats, and maybe some left-leaning independents, flipping Senate seats on other deep red turf like Iowa, South Carolina, and Nebraska is plausible. Trump’s strategy to contain a Blue Wave has been to crisscross the country, insert himself in as many Senate races as possible, insist that he is “on the ballot,” and try to juice turnout among his loyalists. As I wrote three weeks ago, several of Trump’s predecessors learned the hard way that presidents aren’t very useful at juicing midterm turnout. And nothing in the last three weeks—from widening Democratic poll leads to worsening inflation numbers to Trump’s fixation on Senator Jon Husted’s ass—suggests he’s going to be an exception. And even if Trump somehow managed a late turnout surge and fended off the worst outcomes, that should offer Republicans only a modicum of comfort. For one, Trump will never be on the ballot again. A baseball team can’t rely on one relief pitcher forever, and a political party can’t rely on one president forever. That so many Republican incumbents need rescue missions and compelling Republican fresh races are hard to find are signs that the ultra-self-centered Trump has done little to build a bench. Second, Trump is the main reason why so many Republicans need rescuing. His policy choices on tariffs and Iran were childishly impulsive and erratic, as were his stubborn refusals to change course. The resulting impact on consumer prices hit Americans hard and spared no Republican base voters. At the same time, Trump has flaunted his ability to line the pockets of himself and his family members. He has jettisoned core conservative principles regarding limited government when it suits his political or personal purposes. All of this has ruptured the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - UK also affected by supermarket fridge hacks, cyber chief says
Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
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