Heavy-duty trucks are getting closer than ever to becoming rolling computers. Daimler Trucks North America is working with transportation startup Platform Science to embed software in rigs at the factory, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Jennifer Smith writes, in a move aimed at taking out the technology clutter that’s piled up in truck cabs. The companies are taking a page from the consumer electronics playbook, with software operating through a touch-screen on the vehicle’s dashboard. From there, drivers can access many of the sort of programs that have been bolted onto trucks as layers of technology have been added over the years but without having to install an array of aftermarket hardware for each feature. It’s one step in a broader move to incorporate technology tools familiar to the consumer world more deeply in highly industrial operations to make them easier to use.