03 Aug California Grand Champion Hobie Eirich Conquers the 4-Axle If you do what you love for a living, you’ll never work a day in your life. Or so the adage goes. For Hobie Eirich of FedEx Freight, driving a 4-axle is a passion that has manifested into the highest honor in his home state of California. Read more...
03 Aug New Jersey Beverage Distributor Seeks 14-Hour Workday for Its Drivers Allied Beverage Group, a large New Jersey beverage distributor, has requested that the company’s shorthaul drivers utilizing the record of duty status exception be allowed to return to their work-reporting location within 14 hours instead of the usual 12 hours, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Aug. 3. Read more...
03 Aug GM to Hire Hackers to Find Bugs in Car Computers Highly computerized cars or trucks could mean consumers’ data is vulnerable or the driver safety might be endangered if car companies aren’t prepared to cut off at the pass any data breach or threat to cybersecurity. Read more...
03 Aug Toyota Introduces Version 2.0 of Zero-Emission Class 8 Electric Truck Toyota’s new zero-emissions, hydrogen fuel cell Class 8 electric truck is a leap forward to creating a completely environmentally friendly vehicle that lowers air pollution especially around the nation’s ports. Read more...
03 Aug Dana Expands E-Commerce Aftermarket Platform Dana Inc. announced it is expanding its e-commerce platform, DanaAftermarket.com, to support customers in the European, Middle Eastern and African regions after recently launching the platform in the United States. Read more...
03 Aug Beemac Adds Alabama Terminal Flatbed carrier Beemac Trucking announced it opened a terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to better serve its growing customer demand. The company now has 28 terminals across North America. Read more...
03 Aug Oil Companies Fret as Congress Debates Russia Sanctions WASHINGTON — Oil and gas executives have watched wearily in recent years as the relationship between the United States and Russia deteriorated, steadily closing off their ability to drill the vast shale plays underlying Siberia and the deep-water oil fields off Russia’s Arctic coast. Read more...
03 Aug Sirva Acquires Amsterdam-Based Team Relocations Sirva Inc.’s first move since being acquired by the private equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners is to expand its moving and storage business in Europe with the purchase of Team Relocations, a relocation and move management company based in Amsterdam. Read more...
03 Aug Tesla Burns $739.5 Million in Cash on Way to Record 2Q Loss Electric car maker Tesla Inc. burned through $739.5 million in cash last quarter, paving the way to a company record $717.5 million net loss as it cranked out more electric cars. Read more...
03 Aug Toyota Logs Record Quarterly Profit, Cuts Full-Year Sales Outlook TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. logged a better than expected performance in the last quarter, reporting Aug. 3 that its quarterly profit jumped 7.2% to a record 657.3 billion yen ($5.9 billion), thanks to strong sales in the United States and other overseas markets. Read more...