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
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced a meeting to determine the cause of a multiple fatality crash involving parked commercial vehicles that occurred in Illinois in 2023. On April 30, 2025, the NTSB announced that a public board meeting is scheduled for May 20 to determine the probable cause of a crash that occurred at ...more
The Kansas Corporation Commission has granted a temporary hours of service waiver for drivers hauling fuel to alleviate “a bottleneck” causing shortages in the state. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a state of disaster emergency proclamation allowing the HOS waiver on April 30th. The Kansas Corporation Commission has since granted the waiver, which will last ...more
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) announced major action on English language proficiency (ELP) for truck drivers in compliance with direction from the White House. The CVSA announced that starting on June 25, 2025, non-compliance with existing federal regulations requiring commercial vehicle operators to be proficient in English is an out-of-service violation.This move by the CVSA ...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
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
