Sheetz Inc. announced plans to hire truck drivers at a hiring event in the Northern Ohio area this week. Sheetz announced its plans to hire CDL-A drivers in the Findlay, Ohio area on April 14th. The company will host a hiring event on Tuesday, April 15th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the corner ...more
A person is dead after a FedEx semi truck hauling double trailers struck workers picking up cones on Monday morning. The incident happened on Monday, April 14th on the eastbound side of Route 581 between Exit 3 and 5 in Camp Hill Borough, Pennsylvania at about 4:30 a.m. According to WGAL 8, the FedEx tractor trailer ...more
Kenworth Delays Start of Hydrogen Fuel Cell T680 Production
Kenworth Toyota hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks used for testing. (Toyota) Serial production of Kenworth Truck Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell electric T680 tractors will not begin in 2025 as previously announced, according to a senior executive. In the latest setback for Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck prospects in the U.S., Kenworth Chief Engineer Joe ...more
Mexico Aims to Raise Auto Tariff Exemptions
A truck carries new vehicles on the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego. (Ariana Drehsler/Bloomberg) Mexico wants a greater proportion of each auto built in the country to qualify for U.S. origin status, a move that would lower the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, Deputy Economy Minister for Foreign Trade Luis Rosendo Gutierrez said. ...more
IMO Approves Landmark GHG Tax
Tugboats assist a containership as it prepares to dock at the Manila International Container Terminal at the Philippine capital on April 8. (Aaron Favila/AP/File) Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided April 11 to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are ...more
Cleanup of Keystone Pipeline Spill Underway in North Dakota
This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred April 8 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP) BISMARCK, N.D. — Workers have recovered thousands of gallons of crude oil from an underground pipeline spill on North Dakota farmland, the owner of the line said April 10, ...more
China Raises Tariffs on American Goods From 84% to 125%
An aerial view of new cars waiting for shipment at a pier for ro-ro ships in Yantai city in eastern China's Shandong province. (Chinatopix Via AP) BEIJING — China announced April 11 that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% — the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the ...more
Class 8 Truck Sales Climb From February, Still Lag 2024
Year to date, U.S. Class 8 retail sales are down 9.4% to 50,627 units from 55,862 in 2024. (Aziz Shamuratov/Getty Images) U.S. Class 8 sales continued to trend below year-ago levels but posted a sequential gain in March, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Sales decreased 5% to 18,682 units from 19,658 during the same ...more
Lucid to Take Over Nikola’s Arizona Electric Truck Plant
Employees working on a Nikola vehicle inside the now-closed manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Ariz. (Nikola Corp.) Lucid Group Inc. has agreed to take over the headquarters and electric truck factory previously belonging to Nikola Corp., the manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. In addition to snapping up Nikola’s former main office in Phoenix ...more