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This past week, PacTrans’ director, Yinhai Wang, and assistant director, Cole Kopca, met with folks from Paccar about potential opportunities in collaboration. Paccar, among the largest manufacturers of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in the world, is the parent company for Kenworth Trucks, Peterbilt Motors, and others. They are a forward thinking company currently looking to identify emerging trucking industry and logistics trends, and begin innovating products to not only better support those trends but also further their commitment to sustainability.

Dr. Wang introduced them to PacTrans and many of the great technology and data solutions that have, and are currently being developed in his STAR Lab. Then Mr. Kopca spent some time describing the breadth of expertise that PacTrans PIs can offer as a whole. Both parties were optimistic that strong future partnership will be mutually beneficial and each is currently in the process for more definitively articulating specific areas where they see immediate collaboration.