05 Jun Richard Sweeney Tops Strong Field in Massachusetts A former national Grand Champion and the 2018 Grand Champion won their categories at the Massachusetts Truck Driving Championships June 2 in North Andover, but Richard Sweeney of XPO Logistics took the 2019 Grand Champion title, winning in Tank Truck. Read more...
05 Jun US-Mexico Showdown Puts $45 Billion Food Trade in Crosshairs Meat and grains, fruits, vegetables and even sugar. These are the dinner-table goods that are regularly imported back and forth between Mexico and the United States. Read more...
05 Jun Trump Says 'No Bluff!' On the Mexico Tariffs Republican lawmakers eager to halt a new round of tariffs on Mexican goods next week have spent days urging the Trump administration to negotiate a solution with Mexico’s government. Read more...
05 Jun VW Brand to Trim as Many as 4,000 Jobs Amid Digital Overhaul Volkswagen AG’s main car brand will let lapse as many as 4,000 general and administrative jobs while adding at least 2,000 IT positions over the next four years, avoiding layoffs at its German factories as it negotiates a major shift toward electrification and self-driving cars. Read more...
05 Jun GM Won’t Get Tariff Relief for Chinese-Built Buick Envision The largest U.S. automaker can’t get a pass on tariffs snagging one of its models. The Trump administration refused to grant General Motors Co. an exclusion for its Chinese-built Buick Envision SUV, keeping in place a 25% duty on the import. Read more...
05 Jun Companies Add Fewest Jobs Since 2010, ADP Data Show Companies in May added the fewest U.S. workers in any month since 2010, suggesting a potential pullback in the labor market amid weakness in some parts of the economy. Read more...
05 Jun Lion, BEV Launch Electric Refuse Truck The Lion Electric Co. and Boivin Évolution unveiled what they called the world’s first Class 8 refuse truck with a powertrain and automated collection hopper that are 100% electric. Read more...
05 Jun Report: Local Leaders Highlight Infrastructure in Annual Addresses The “State of the Cities” annual report by the National League of Cities determined that infrastructure policy ranked as the second-most pressing issue for mayors. Read more...
04 Jun Infrastructure Grants, Resiliency Advance in Fiscal 2020 House Transportation Bill WASHINGTON — A transportation funding bill that would provide grants for multimodal projects and promote nationwide resilience in new infrastructure was advanced by a panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 4. Read more...
04 Jun You Can Say That Again! Eric Flick Leads Seven Repeat Winners in Nevada If you’re gonna roll a 7, it may as well be in Nevada, right? Seven class winners from 2018 again visited the winner’s circle at the Nevada Truck Driving Championships on June 1 in Reno. Read more...