Executives from CRH sign the agreement with Caterpillar Group President Denise Johnson at the company’s headquarters in Irving, Texas. [Photo: Caterpillar]
Irving-based Caterpillar said the agreement focuses on accelerating the deployment of Caterpillar's 70- to 100-ton-class battery electric off-highway trucks and charging solutions at a CRH site in North America.
Freeport-McMoRan's Bagdad Mine in Arizona represents one of the largest copper reserves on earth. The company will work with Caterpillar to convert its Bagdad fleet of 33 massive Cat 793 haul trucks to an autonomous haulage system using Cat MineStar Command for hauling.
Last week, Irving-based Caterpillar announced a collaboration with Luck Stone—the nation’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel—to roll out Caterpillar’s autonomous trucking solution at Luck Stone’s plant in Chantilly, Virginia. This will be Caterpillar’s first self-driving truck deployment in the aggregates industry, accelerating its solutions beyond mining, the company said. It expands Caterpillar's autonomous truck fleet to include the exceptionally burly Cat 777 seen above.
Even though the calendar just flipped to September, last-mile delivery provider GOFO Inc. has already expanded its Lewisville hub to better handle the holiday shopping season.
GOFO said it recently added a roughly 200,000-square-foot delivery facility at its Lewisville hub....
Even though the calendar just flipped to September, last-mile delivery provider GOFO Inc. has already expanded its Lewisville hub to better handle the holiday shopping season.
GOFO said it recently added a roughly 200,000-square-foot delivery facility at its Lewisville hub....