C.H. Robinson reported earnings of $135.3 million for the first quarter compared with $92.9 million in the 2024 period. (C.H. Robinson Worldwide) C.H. Robinson Worldwide experienced a 45.6% surge in earnings off lower revenue during the first quarter of 2025, the company reported April 30. The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based logistics and shipping company posted net ...more
A Cummins diesel engine at the Cummins plant in Seymour, Ind. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) Equipment manufacturer Cummins saw revenue fall in the first quarter of 2025 on the back of weaker on-highway truck sales in both North and South America and broad buyer worry about business trends. Sales of the company’s engines, driveline components and brakes ...more
The vote passed in the House on March 5 and the Senate on May 6. The measure heads to the president’s desk for signing next. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press) Congress has voted to kill a Biden-era rule requiring rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes in the U.S. The Environmental Protection ...more
Eaton Center office in Beachwood, Ohio. (Eaton Corp.) Data center and electricity generation construction continued to power Eaton profit and revenue increases in the first quarter of 2025 as the component manufacturer’s vehicles division lagged again. Dublin-based Eaton posted net income of $964 million in the most recent quarter, an increase of 17% compared with ...more
“It’s going to be a very fair number, it’ll be a low number. We’re not looking to hurt countries,” Trump said. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) U.S. President Donald Trump said he would prescribe tariff levels and trade concessions for partners looking to avoid higher duties, appearing to move away from the idea that he would engage ...more
Newly manufactured Allison transmissions. The company's Q1 net income rose 13.6% to $192 million. (Allison Transmissions) U.S. demand this year for Class 8 vocational trucks and day cab tractors that has tracked with expectations combined with a lift from higher prices helped boost Allison Transmission earnings in the first quarter of 2025. Allison CEO David ...more
A 911 operator used the successful Clark Memorial Bridge rescue as a way to reassure the dangling truck driver in Louisville over the weekend. The truck driver crashed through a concrete barrier on Sunday, May 4th on southbound Interstate 65 in Louisville, Kentucky near the border. The crash left the cab of the semi truck ...more
Two truck drivers and their families will now pursue a lawsuit against Amazon after incidents involving poor signage at an Indiana warehouse that led to severe injury and death. Both truckers were attempting to make deliveries to an Amazon warehouse in Hancock County, Indiana, but were confused about where they needed to go due to ...more
A $6,000 reward is being offered for any information on the death of a lady trucker found on the side of an East Texas highway more than 10 years ago. 51-year-old Lillian Desiree Descoteau was found along an entrance ramp to Interstate 20 off of FM 450 in Hallsville, Texas on October 7, 2013. According to ...more
A truck driver with “no remorse” for the accident was sentenced to more than 22 years on Monday after colliding with a bus full of juvenile hockey players. Truck driver Victor Santos, of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, pleaded guilty to 26 counts each of criminal recklessness, and causing serious bodily injury while operating ...more
