Foxconn Gets First Major EV-Making Client in Mitsubishi

By |2025-03-24T08:20:33-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 9:45 AM|Trucking News|

The Mitsubishi Motors logo is displayed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Bloomberg News) Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has secured an agreement to make Mitsubishi Motors Corp. electric vehicles, scoring the first major customer for its fledgling EV contract manufacturing business. Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, will begin building vehicles for Mitsubishi ...more

BP to Sell Gas Pipeline Stake to Apollo Funds for $1 Billion

By |2025-03-24T08:20:37-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 9:24 AM|Trucking News|

(Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News) BP Plc said Apollo-managed funds will purchase a 25% noncontrolling stake in BP Pipelines — known as BP TANAP — for about $1 billion, marking the British energy giant’s first divestment under its turnaround plan. TANAP holds BP’s 12% interest in the Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline, part of the Southern Gas ...more

FMCSA’s Camire Removed From Website After Brief Appointment

By |2025-03-24T12:21:52-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 4:42 AM|Trucking News|

(Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Getty Images) Adrienne Camire’s name has vanished from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration website just two weeks after she was named acting administrator. Camire was appointed on March 7 to lead the FMCSA. By March 21, the agency had removed all references to her leadership, including a press ...more

Trucking Market Shows Signs of Recovery After Long Downturn

By |2025-03-24T12:21:56-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 3:20 AM|Trucking News|

“I think we are going to get back to normal, and things are going to get better,” Costello said. (vitpho/Getty Images) PHOENIX — The trucking industry is emerging from a difficult market, and the headwinds that have plagued the industry are beginning to weaken as freight volumes improve and capacity leaves the market, experts said. ...more

France Backs Using EU’s Top Trade Tool Against US If Needed

By |2025-03-24T12:22:01-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 3:02 AM|Trucking News|

France wants the EU to consider deploying its most powerful retaliatory measure against the U.S. for the first time ever if Trump uses tariffs. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg News) France wants the European Union to consider deploying its most powerful retaliatory measure against the U.S. for the first time ever if President Donald Trump uses tariffs to ...more

By |2025-03-24T07:23:38-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

Two bills that could make it harder to bring large lawsuits against trucking companies have been introduced by lawmakers in Texas this month.  According to KVUE, Senate Bill 30 by State Sen. Charles Schwertner would modify the rules regarding reasonableness and necessity of medical expenses in personal injury cases brought against trucking companies. The bill would ...more

By |2025-03-24T07:23:42-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) is asking for public help in locating a family of three who went missing near the location of a major pileup crash in Arizona last week. CCSO says that family members Junghee Kim, 54, Taehee Kim, 59, and Jiyeon Lee, 33, have been missing since March 13, 2025. The ...more

By |2025-03-24T11:24:42-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A survivor of a recent pile up crash in Austin has filed a $100 million lawsuit against multiple parties.  The March 13th wreck happened on Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas after a truck driver on central nervous system depressants crashed into a line of stopped traffic, killing five people and injuring 11 others. Nathan Jonard, ...more

By |2025-03-24T07:23:47-05:00March 21st, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A commercial vehicle skewered itself on an enormous wind turbine blade in this shocking video filmed somewhere in China.  In the clip, a truck can be seen skewered by a wind turbine blade with the equipment piercing the entire shipping container it was hauling. The blade entered the container from the front and exited all ...more

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