Windrose CEO Wen Han said he expects to begin assembly of R700 Class 8 battery-electric tractors in Huntington Beach, Calif., by July 4. (PR Newswire) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Windrose expects to begin assembly of its R700 Class 8 battery-electric tractors in Huntington Beach, Calif., by July 4, the truck manufacturer’s CEO said. In a sit-down ...more

"A lot of [the loans] won’t go forward, but that’s a very careful review process that we’ve just put in place and just got a team to execute on," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. (Al Drago/Bloomberg News) Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his agency doesn’t plan to move forward with billions of dollars worth of ...more

John F. Kennedy International Airport's new consolidated cargo handling center. The facility spans 350,000 square feet. (Courtesy Realterm) The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey opened a $270 million consolidated cargo handling center at John F. Kennedy International Airport to lessen truck congestion and boost high-value cargo handling. The new cargo center streamlines ...more

Littlefair told attendees there is an abundance of natural gas in the market, with 280 landfill, dairy and swine RNG projects under construction and 175 ready to get under construction. (Mindy Long for Transport Topics) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Different fuels have different roles to play in the transition to low-carbon transportation, and having multiple vehicle ...more

Using a Mack Anthem chassis as the prototype’s initial building block, Symbio will engineer a powertrain incorporating fuel cells and hydrogen storage tanks from shareholder Forvia. (Savage Companies) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Savage Companies will team up with hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer Symbio North America as part of efforts to decarbonize the infrastructure and logistics company’s ...more

This video serves as a friendly reminder that every interaction with DOT doesn’t have to be terrible.  In the video, a driver pulls up to some sort of road block with multiple officers on his way to pick up his load. “We’re required to do a monthly regulatory checkpoint,” the officer explains when the driver rolls ...more

UPDATE 4 PM MAY 2——————- Florida police have located and arrested a truck driver following a double fatality crash on I-95 in Palm Bay on Friday morning, WESH reports.The crash victims have been identified as surveyors, who were standing on the shoulder of I-95 near their vehicle when they were struck. ORIGINAL ARTICLE———————The Florida Highway ...more

Troopers at a California Highway Patrol (CHP) checkpoint handed out several citations and out-of-service orders after conducting just a handful of commercial vehicle inspections. A roadside inspection checkpoint was recently set up in San Benito County, California, after CHP received “numerous complaints from the community.”The checkpoint was staffed by officers from CHP’s Gilroy Commercial Vehicle ...more

A trucking fraud expert says that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not doing enough to combat the fake addresses being used to hide companies.  Dale Prax, owner of Freight Validate, a company that tracks fraud and identity theft in the trucking industry, says that many alleged trucking companies are using fraudulent addresses to ...more

The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) recently conducted a search warrant on a truck stop in Corinth, Mississippi, after receiving complaints about the sale of illegal substances. According to a statement released by ACSO on May 2, Alcorn County residents issued several complaints about stores selling illegal items such as Kratom and Tianeptine.Following these complaints, ...more