Food distributor Sysco Corp. intends to order up to 800 Class 8 Freightliner eCascadia electric trucks from Daimler Truck North America..

Electric work truck startup Atlis Motor Vehicles has crowdfunded $32.6 million from nearly 29,000 investors as it readies a public offering.

War, pandemic shutdowns and supply chain woes resulted in a nearly 60% month-over-month decline in trailer orders in April.

Electric trucks — battery and fuel cells — unsurprisingly overwhelmed the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo.

Cummins will work with Daimler Truck North America to get hydrogen-powered fuel cell Freightliner Cascadias to customers in 2024.

Lordstown Motors lives to fight another day with the $230 million sale of the plant it basically got for free from General Motors.

Startup Xos Trucks introduced full-fledged heavy- and medium-duty electric chassis cabs, signifying its graduation from a powertrain component integrator.

Autonomous trucking startup Plus is making a scaled-back version of its autonomous trucking software available through upfitting.

The production version of the battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia evolved from more than 1 million miles of real-world fleet testing.

Menos del 1% de ciertos camiones que cubren 3 años de modelo podrían tener la condición

Paccar Inc. is recalling 17,641 Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks from the 2018-2020 model years because of a steering part defect.

Is a bigger battery on wheels the best way to make autonomous trucks more efficient? Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies thinks so.

Volvo will work with DHL Supply Chain to test hub-to-hub autonomous trucking using Class 8 VNL tractors retrofitted by Aurora Innovation.

Electric truck maker Nikola posted its first gross profit in Q1 and racked up orders backed by California incentives.

Class 8 truck orders fell to a seven-month low in April as manufacturers continued to restrict bookings over supply chain uncertainty.

Traton Group is glad it bought Navistar when it did. The U.S. truck and bus maker is helping offset war and other issues at the German holding company.

TuSimple, the autonomous truck developer is delaying its purpose-built driverless truck to 2025 while slowing its roll in other areas.

Cummins Inc. expects to keep raising prices to stay ahead of inflation in the materials it buys for engines and powertrains.

Nikola is raising money to scale its production of electric trucks through sales of new stock and tapping an equity line of credit.

The survival of electric pickup truck startup Lordstown Motors likely hinges on completing the plant sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn.

Nikola is helping to bring electric infrastructure companies to the Arizona desert where it has begun production of electric trucks.

Class 8 battery-electric trucks will generate the first meaningful revenue that Nikola can take to the bank.

Q1 sales and earnings at the parent of Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF Trucks posted records despite persistent supply chain issues.

Electric chassis startups from A to Z are tapping a legacy bodybuilder for help while one company creates its own complete electric van.

Three relatively small electric infrastructure grants speak volumes about the importance of direct current fast charging for commercial vehicles.

T/CCI makes heavy-duty air compressors in China, but it is looking to do what it can to meet customer demands to localize production.

As Cummins focuses on electrification and growing its traditional engine business, the company is preparing an IPO for its filtration business.

Mobility expert Larry Burns says getting the world off fossil fuels is a equation of ‘the power of and.’

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Volvo reported record Q1 truck sales despite ongoing supply chain interruptions. The company took a $423 million charge for suspending Russia business.

Navistar spending more than $190 million for an integrated powertrain in Alabama for North America .

La falta de oferta sigue marcando récords de precios en las subastas y en el comercio minorista

Sky-high used Class 8 truck prices are not falling with lower freight rates as an undersupply of equipment continues to alter buyer behavior.

A safety recall by Daimler Truck North America inadvertently confirmed the next Western Star X-Series vocational truck.

Aunque todavía no está a la venta, el Western Star 57X está incluido en la llamada a revisión de seguridad por una pieza defectuosa en el capó

How did Navistar manage to build its assembly plant in San Antonio for a relatively paltry $250 million? Partly by ignoring a famous baseball movie line.

New trailer orders surged to their highest level in 15 months in March, but a supply chain fraught with trouble means it could be an anomaly.

Se espera que el número de camiones y autobuses automatizados crezca desde prácticamente cero este año hasta 1,2 millones en 2032, según un nuevo análisis de mercado de Guidehouse Insights. […]

Automated trucks and buses are expected to number 1.2 million annually by 2032 compared with about 1,000 in testing today.

El transportista de automóviles se diversifica hacia los vehículos usados para compensar los menores envíos de OEM

The pandemic and the supply chain crisis was a one-two punch for United Road Services, the car hauler that moves 4 million vehicles a year.

With order fulfillment lagging, Nussbaum Transportation counts on its maintenance skill to keep older equipment running longer.

Swedish truck maker AB Volvo halted its business in Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine. Now it is counting the cost.

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Con un tercer socio, el transportista apuesta por la tecnología para paliar la escasez de conductores

U.S. Xpress is tripling down on autonomy, adding Kodiak Robotics to pilots with Embark Trucks and TuSimple.

Workhorse may not have any electric vehicles to sell, but it also does not have any debt after paying off a hedge fund lender in stock.

Ever willing to try something new, Werner Enterprises teams aligns with Aurora Innovation on 600-mile supervised autonomous freight runs in Texas.

Seeking to avoid the embarrassment of canceling fleet orders last year, truck manufacturers are keeping a tight lid on bookings.

Nikola has put wheels in motion to sell up to $1.2 billion in new stock to keep scaling its electric truck and hydrogen businesses.

No hay un calendario concreto, pero el fabricante de camiones eléctricos ha indicado que la ampliación de capital será este año

As robots take over for human drivers, will they raise or lower the risk of tire blowouts that claim dozens of lives in truck crashes every year?

Dirty trucks will pay $10 per TEU in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to raise money for zero-emission trucks and infrastructure.

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With more than $200 million in incentive funding being released Wednesday in California, fleets are placing larger orders for electric trucks.

Major acquisitions of TRW Inc. and Wabco Holdings have made ZF the world’s largest commercial vehicle supplier.

A single fire prompts Navistar to discover a wiring issue with battery cables and leads to a recall of 2,804 trucks.

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Out of the shadow of Mercedes-Benz cars, independent Daimler Truck showed financial resilience despite supply chain headwinds.

Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. leverages parent Daimler Truck North America’s dealership and service network to battle competitors.

With Daimler Truck already on board, Platform Science adds Navistar as the second manufacturer to factory install its open-source telematics.

ndicted Nikola Corp. founder dropped his attempt to move his criminal trial out of New York and sold more stock as trial date was reset to July.

Traton Group is still focused on battery power for trucks but tossed a bone to hydrogen in raising its electrification spending to about $3 billion by 2026.

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The unrelenting rise of used truck prices in auctions and at retail appears to be immune even to the threat of an economic slowdown.

TuSimple’s stock price has tanked in recent weeks, and a published report says the autonomous truck developer may sell its China business unit.

Trailers relegated to storage units are being cleaned up and hooked up to return to service as fleets wait out the supply chain crisis.

Veteran automotive executive Ed Hightower is trying to bring the Lordstown Endurance electric pickup truck to market despite myriad setbacks.

Nikola is asking shareholders to dilute their investment by authorizing 200 million new shares of the electric truck maker that could raise $1.5 billion.

Los 5 principales ejecutivos se mantienen con sueldos de 1 dólar al año, apostando por la revalorización de las acciones

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Mack Trucks left the medium-duty market for two decades. The initial reaction to its return suggests people missed the bulldog.

Finding a used truck in an overheated market is hard, but personal connections can be an answer, whether it’s the local plumber or the chamber of commerce.

La campaña de Sophomore gira hacia las aplicaciones profesionales con una transmisión más pesada

Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.

The California Air Resources Board sees the chance for a single federal standard on truck pollution, but that’s been the hope before.

The cost of truck maintenance is rising as service technicians demand more money to stay on the job while aging equipment is driving more repairs.

TuSimple’s leadership succession plan was known inside the autonomous trucking startup, but the unexpected timing rattled investors.

El área de ensamblaje, brillantemente iluminada, carece intencionadamente de los adornos de la fabricación pesada

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In a century-old manufacturing complex where General Motors once built gears and axles, Waymo manufactures autonomous cars and trucks.

Manufacturers kept the screws tight on new Class 8 truck orders in February as a lack of supply chain visibility maintained stable backlogs.

Facing a year with no revenue, Workhorse Group has turned to Canada’s GreenPower Motor to get Class 4 vans it can sell this year.

Lordstown Motors is sticking to planned production of the Endurance electric pickup truck in Q3, but a shortage of cash makes the plan uncertain.

Navistar is recalling thousands of trucks because their backup lights illuminate with the wrong shade of white.

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Electric truck maker Nikola projects it will build 300-500 battery-electric trucks this year and post up to $150 million in revenue.

El control de la tesorería es una prioridad al comenzar la segunda fase de la planta de Arizona

Multiple fleets placed deposits for 100 extended-range Hypertruck ERX units as Hyliion Holdings declared it has enough money for a late 2023 launch.

TuSimple claims a “clean bill of health” as a U.S. probe of foreign investment ends with an agreement to guard U.S.-developed technology.

Michael Lohscheller has been named president of Nikola Corp., charged with leading the electric truck maker’s global growth.

La prima propuesta del 48% enciende la cotización del proveedor más pequeño

Cummins Inc. will buy Meritor for $3.7 billion in a deal that combines traditional and new power components for commercial trucks.

El CEO Healy confía en que el camión eléctrico de gas natural de autonomía extendida lo conseguirá

Hyliion Holdings has doubled its headcount amid an unrelenting battering of electric vehicle startup stock values.

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Electric bus, battery and infrastructure developer Proterra Inc. deals with its own supply chain issues as well as those of end customers.

Aurora Innovation is trying to prove it has thought through issues surrounding autonomous trucking as it targets late 2023 to launch its Horizon system.