Both Amazon and the small trucking company connected to the truck driver in the recent deadly wreck on Interstate 75 are denying responsibility for the incident.  65-year-old Joseph Antionier is facing more than a dozen charges, including 2 counts of reckless homicide, several counts of felony reckless endangerment, and reckless aggravated assault for a May ...more

An International Motors eMV medium-duty electric truck. One category of medium-duty truck sales increased year over year in April: Class 7, in which 4,799 trucks were sold, a 3.4% increase. (International Motors) U.S. sales for medium-duty trucks continued to trend below the prior-year period in April, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Classes 4-7 retail ...more

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with media in Ottawa on March 27. He announced a six-month tariff exemption for some items. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via Associated Press) Canada has effectively suspended almost all of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products, tamping down inflation risks and improving its growth outlook, according to Oxford Economics. ...more

Damera's Karsan eJest, a 19-passenger electric minibus with a range of 130 miles. (Damera Corp./TNS) As Lion Electric faces liquidation and the auction of its shuttered Joliet, Ill., electric bus factory, the state has announced another Canadian EV bus manufacturer will be opening a plant in Peoria, Ill. Damera Corp., an Ontario-based electric bus company, ...more

(Pony AI) Autonomous driving company Pony AI Inc. has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing to help raise capital to grow its business, according to people familiar with the situation. A Hong Kong offering may take place this year, but the size isn’t yet known, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing ...more

Beginning July 11, motor carriers that continue to use the revoked devices will be considered as operating without an ELD. (Juan Sorto/Transport Topics) The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has removed eight Gorilla Fleet Safety electronic logging devices from the agency’s list of regulated ELDs “due to the company’s failure to meet the minimum requirements.” ...more

Rolls of steel at the Nucor Corp. plant in Ghent, Ky. (Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press) Nucor Corp., the biggest steel manufacturer in North America, shut down production at some of its facilities after detecting an unauthorized intrusion into its computer systems. The company took potentially affected systems offline and implemented other containment measures, Nucor said ...more

Rolf Habben Jansen by Maria Feck/Bloomberg Container carrier Hapag-Lloyd AG is seeing a jump in business this week after the U.S. and China lowered tariffs, the company’s CEO said, as the trade war ceasefire unleashes a wave of pent-up demand for transpacific shipping. “The last couple of days we see a huge surge of volume ...more

A "Made in China" sticker is displayed on a hat at a store in the Chinatown in San Francisco. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press, File) WASHINGTON — Online shoppers in the U.S. will see a price break on their purchases valued at less than $800 and shipped from China after the Trump administration reached a truce with ...more

A "Made in China" sticker is displayed on a hat at a store in the Chinatown in San Francisco. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press, File) WASHINGTON — Online shoppers in the U.S. will see a price break on their purchases valued at less than $800 and shipped from China after the Trump administration reached a truce with ...more