Fujio Uemura has to rest after driving fish all night to Tokyo, under new rules that trucking firms and experts say are crippling Japan's logistics sector and risk pushing up prices for consumers. The ...

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TOKYO — Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka, dubbed a “conveyor belt road” by the government, to make up for a shortage of truck drivers. The ...

Daimler Trucks is testing Fuso Super Great heavy trucks in platooning runs with other truck brands on public roads outside Tokyo. Photo: Fuso If there’s one traditionally tech-crazy country that’s ...

The regulations are aimed at easing the stress of the badly paid hard slog of trucking. Fujio Uemura has to rest after driving fish all night to Tokyo, under new rules that trucking firms and experts ...