10 Sep Pride Truck Sales Expands Into California Pride Truck Sales, a Canadian retailer of pre-owned trucks and trailers, has extended its reach with the debut of California facilities in Fontana and Stockton, bringing its North American locations to eight. Read more...
10 Sep Trillium to Upgrade Austin, Texas, CNG Station for Heavy-Duty Trucks Trillium will upgrade the compressed natural gas station in Austin, Texas, to provide easier access and fast-fill capability for heavy-duty vehicles fueling with CNG. Read more...
10 Sep Walmart Doubles Spending in Battle for Truckers Walmart Inc., pinched by the worsening shortage of truckers, plans to double its spending on attracting and retaining drivers by year-end. Read more...
10 Sep Kenworth Opens New Dealership in Baltimore Baltimore is the newest addition to Kenworth’s dealer network, opening Kenworth Mid Atlantic through a partnership between Tri-State Kenworth and Chesapeake Truck. Read more...
10 Sep Old Dominion Reports Strong August Numbers Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. reported certain less-than-truckload operating metrics for August, including higher revenue, increases in tons per day and a slight decrease in LTL weight per shipment. Read more...
10 Sep U.S. Xpress Bids to Recruit Millennials With Scholorship Program The deepening crisis of a truck-driver shortage that already is leading to higher prices for agricultural produce and threatening to stoke inflation is forcing trucking companies to find creative solutions. Read more...
10 Sep Trimble Moves to Unite Its Trucking Technology Businesses HOUSTON — Trimble has acquired some of the biggest names in the trucking technology sector over the past several years. Now the global technology firm is taking steps to more closely unite those businesses, including PeopleNet, TMW Systems, ALK Technologies and 10-4 Systems, to provide an end-to-end platform under the Trimble brand. Read more...
10 Sep Daimler Plots Two-for-One Autonomous Van for City Transport Daimler AG is developing an autonomous electric vehicle that can toggle between a people carrier and a delivery van as the German manufacturer seeks an edge over rivals such as Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Deutsche Post AG in shaping the future of mobility. Read more...
09 Sep Editorial: Take a Minute, Thank a Driver It’s National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the time of year when motor carriers and others connected to trucking make a special effort to recognize the professionals who keep the freight moving. Throughout the week, special events will take place to honor them, and many of those events will feature food. Lots of it. So let’s hope the industry’s drivers have a hearty appetite! Read more...
07 Sep EPA Inspector General to Audit Agency’s Emissions Test on Gliders At the request of four Republican congressmen, the Office of Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to conduct an audit of a 2017 EPA study that concluded glider trucks are bigger polluters than trucks that meet newer federal emissions standards. Read more...