FTR’s 2025 Transportation Outlook predicts steady growth in spot and contract rates amid a shifting economic and political landscape but cautions that the increases will not be as significant as those of 2020 or 2021
California’s trucking industry is starting to try to figure out what the world looks like with the Advanced Clean Fleets rule dead.
The impact of California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule extends far beyond the Golden State’s borders, as recent developments show.
California has received a waiver that allows tighter rules on diesel emissions; will it have a short shelf life?
The Freudenberg Group makes a lot of different products, from candy coatings to heavy-duty electric truck and bus batteries.
Animus between co-founders of TuSimple is playing out in courts across the US with a proposed liquidation the latest salvo.
Port of LA-Long Beach short line Pacific Harbor Line has won partial federal funding toward the purchase of zero-emission locomotives.
California’s latest environmental logistics rule focuses on forklifts, but clean technology there has been growing already.
Sitetracker helps companies like ChargePoint automate tasks surrounding getting electric charging points up and running faster.
Costs and feasibility of CARB’s anti-pollution rule for locomotives was debated on Capitol Hill.
Regulators pushing to make the electric truck transition go faster are getting pushback from a range of industry stakeholders.
A coalition of far-flung states has filed a lawsuit to fight California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
A federal appeals court backed the authority of the EPA to grant environmental waivers to California, with possible ramifications for trucking.
Natural gas may be having a moment as an alternative fuel for trucking, but there are a few nagging questions.
Drayage carriers at the Port of Long Beach may be adding more internal combustion engine vehicles than zero-emission vehicles to prepare for California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule. The Port of LA’s use of ZEVs is also low.
Natural gas, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles all vie to displace diesel. Which will win? Maybe all of them.
After agreeing to a $1.675 billion fine for violating the Clean Air Act, Cummins Inc. will pay California $175 million in the same case.
Electric trucks and charging infrastructure should advance this year without some of the growing pains that held them back in 2023.
California won’t enforce its rule that only zero-emission vehicles can be registered as drayage trucks after the start of 2024.
The California Clean Truck Check registration deadline has been extended to Jan. 31.
Cummins Inc. will pay nearly $1.7 billion to federal and state regulators to settle a more than 4-year-old emissions-cheating case.
A small victory in court over a new California rule doesn’t slow another part of the state’s march toward zero-emission refrigerated trucks … but not trailers.
California has asked the Environmental Protection Agency for a waiver to implement the Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
The first deadline for a little-noticed environmental rule affecting all trucks traveling in California is Dec. 31.
The electric grid holds more potential for electric truck charging than utilities currently allow. A big rethink is under way.
American Trucking Associations CEO Chris Spear uses his annual address to urge motor carriers to fight for industry well-being.
The California Trucking Association has filed suit in federal court, seeking to block implementation of the California Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
An electric vehicle charger without data intelligence on when it is available and operating is like a hot dog without a bun.
Startup Hyliion Holdings is pausing orders of its Hypertruck ERX as costs rise and electric trucks get better.
Stack AV founder Bryan Selesky is keeping most of the details of his autonomous trucking startup to himself for now.
Cal Fleet Advisor mostly geared to smaller fleets; no fee for the service
Other charging infrastructure startups have more resources but WattEV has an early advantage in making charging available.
The Diesel Technology Forum released data on trucks getting cleaner, but is it enough in the energy transition?
After months of carping, California and engine makers agree to flexibility on emissions but hold to the state’s tough mandates.
Harbor Trucking Association’s Matt Schrap warns about the effects that California’s carbon emissions restriction is having on the drayage industry and the environment.
The new regulations calling for zero-emissions configurations by as early as 2030 are too lofty in part because technologies are not yet commercially viable.
Megawatt charging is too much for pretty much every electric truck save for the purpose-built Tesla Semi. But that is slowly changing.
Nineteen states want an appellate court review of an EPA waiver that allows California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule to proceed.
There may be plenty of hand-wringing about California’s Clean Fleets rule, but fleets are advised to start getting ready for it.
An all-electric truck future by 2045 could face serious roadblocks.
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference?
Kennan Beard, president of the California Short Line Railroad Association and president and CEO of the Sierra Northern Railway, talks to FreightWaves about why he thinks CARB’s new regulation governing locomotive emissions isn’t well thought out.
The epicenter for electric trucks in Southern California is so far a small part of the massive Velocity Truck Centers.
California’s environmental regulators have adopted the Advanced Clean Fleet rule designed to transition away from diesel vehicles in the state.
The California Air Resources Board has passed a regulation that compels freight and locomotive operators in California to adopt technologies to reduce locomotive emissions and phase out diesel locomotives.
The California Air Resources Board is expected to discuss this week a proposed regulation calling for zero-emissions locomotives by 2030 and 2035.
Toyota expects to deliver incentive-supported, Kentucky-produced heavy-duty fuel cell kits to U.S. customers this year.
The California Air Resources Board is welcoming comments on its proposed Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would move up the ZEV mandate from 2040 to 2036.
Truck-as-a-service startup Forum Mobility enters a $400 million joint venture to establish electric drayage truck charging sites.
The ever-changing trucking scene in California started off 2023 with a visit from Washington and a removal of some engines from the road.
A $240,000 incentive from California plus other subsidies could bring parity between a Nikola fuel cell truck and a diesel rig.
As a seed-stage startup, Ali Javidan’s Range Energy doesn’t have much to show yet for his idea of electrifying trailers.
The approach of Cummins Inc. to hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines is very different from how and when it talks about most of its products.
Container vessels are expected to use auxiliary engines while in port this week to help California’s struggling electric system cope with extreme heat.
Nikola’s could keep adjourning its annual meeting as it pursues unvoted proxies to raise the number of authorized shares.
Cummins Inc., a threat to the survivability of hybrid powertrain developer Hyliion, will partner with the startup on certifying a natural gas engine.
Some free money from California to buy down the cost of electric trucks remains, but you better hurry to apply.
Development of 48-volt battery systems for commercial trucks will serve at least three purposes but the most urgent is in helping reduce emissions.
California is moving too fast to implement changes in trucking pollution regulations, an industry group said in suing the state.
Drayage trucks in California with engines made before 2010 will have to be shut down at the end of the year on the road to zero-emissions vehicles.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
The California Air Resources Board sees the chance for a single federal standard on truck pollution, but that’s been the hope before.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
The Biden administration says a proposed heavy-duty truck emissions rule will be “rooted on science and the law.”
The two rules are designed to work together, one aimed at OEMs and the other at buyers of their products.
Class 8 equipment orders are impacted by customer cancellations and OEMs bound by the turning of calendar pages.
From storing renewable energy stocks to tapping high-voltage transmission lines, the juice to power electric trucks has to come from somewhere.
California regulators want to use a combination of onboard monitoring devices to measure truck emissions.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter offering perspective and context on electrification and autonomous technologies for fleets and the trucking ecosystem.
An “unprecedented outlook for hydrogen fueling station network development in California” contains bold expansion plans for the state. The California Air Resources Board report expects to see capacity for 250,000 fuel cell electric vehicles by 2026.
Logistics operator NFI Industries will install 34 direct-current fast chargers and convert its Southern California drayage fleet to battery-electric trucks.
Schneider and NFI Industries will each get 50 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, with California environmental agencies paying a big chunk of the bill.
The California Air Resources Board has voted to require rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft to conduct 90% of all rides in electric vehicles by 2030.
Capturing wastewater, farm and food waste to make biogas can prevent planet-warming methane emissions from going airborne.
California will boost testing procedures to enforce distillate fuel regulations.
Kenworth delivered two natural gas-powered T680 hybrid electric trucks to a fleet for drayage testing in California. They are the first and likely the last.
U.S. House lawmakers’ Climate Crisis Action Plan calls for 100% EV truck sales by 2040.
Startup electric driveline maker Hyliion Holdings Corp. decided against booking $1 million in revenue during its first quarter as a public company when it lost $9.1 million.
Workhorse Group said 36% of its production staff is sidelined by the COVID-19 virus or awaiting test results. The company ditched its projection of building 300-400 electric delivery vans by the end of the year and badly undershot Q3 sales and earnings projections.
Phase 2 standards could tack thousands of dollars onto the cost of a new trailer.
Workhorse Group’s 1,000-cubic-foot composite body electric delivery van covered 160 miles on a single charge in EPA testing, which the company says lowers its total cost of ownership.
Electric trucks from PACCAR siblings can get California rebates when the fund is replenished; Daimler shows future battery and fuel cell trucks; and FMCSA grants Bosch a video mirror waiver.
Workhorse Group lost a lot of money on paper because new borrowing was tied to its exploding stock price. But it has the cash on hand to build electric trucks into 2022.
“Employer groups should not play American ports against one another,” says longshore union leader.
The California Air Resources Board certifies Workhorse’s C-Series electric delivery vans as zero-emission vehicles, clearing the path to qualifying for state-funded customer incentives.
The California Air Resources Board has mandated a percentage of zero-emission Class 8 trucks must be built for sale in California. Darren Prokop’s commentary covers the ins and outs of this regulatory mandate.
With 1 million real-world electric miles, Motiv Power Systems sees growing customer reorders previewing a breakout for battery-powered medium-duty trucks.
Harbor Trucking Association hosts a wide-ranging conversation with West Virginia senator.
Plummeting prices make ExxonMobil’s fuel system-friendly diesel formulation that eliminates additives and reduces NOx emissions a better deal.
By the time it begins limited production of zero-emission Class 8 electric trucks late this year, Volvo will know the pain points because of its ecosystem approach to battery-powered transportation.
Presidential candidate’s Clean Transportation Plan calls for 15% of new trucks to be pollution-free by 2030.
California is proposing to require more ships, including tankers and roll-on, roll-off vessels to use shore power when docked.
Initiative will consider strategies to cut ozone emissions by 2027.
Manufacturers warn clock’s running out on needed clarity for 2021 models.
Navistar is skipping the chase for incentives on demonstration electric trucks to consult with customers on custom-built zero-emission medium-duty models with total cost of ownership rivaling a diesel truck.
GM, Toyota clash with rivals Ford, BMW that are siding with California.
Motiv Power Systems, which converts medium-duty trucks from gasoline to run on zero-emission electricity from batteries, is getting $60 million in equity funding from Winnebago Industries Inc. and a private holding company in Colorado.
