The company has made a big bet on autonomous driving, robotics and artificial intelligence as the primary business of selling EVs struggles. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) Tesla Inc. was granted approval in California to begin carrying passengers as Elon Musk’s company takes steps toward offering ride-hailing services. The California Public Utilities Commission said in an ...more
Ram’s U.S. pickup sales, a major profit driver for the company, slid 16% last year. (Nic Antaya/Bloomberg News) Stellantis NV believes there is still demand for an affordable version of its Ram 1500 pickup truck in the U.S. market after the stripped-down “Ram Classic” ceased production last year, Chief Financial Officer Doug Ostermann said. “We ...more
Torc’s autonomous driving system equipped on a Freightliner Cascadia tractor at an industry show. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) Automated truck developer Torc has partnered with manufacturing company Flex and artificial intelligence specialist Nvidia to develop a scalable physical AI compute system for autonomous trucks, the company announced March 18. Blacksburg, Va.-based Torc has been working toward ...more
The EU wants to make progress and engage with the U.S., Simon Harris said in a Bloomberg TV interview March 18. (Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg News) The European Union is ready to talk to U.S. President Donald Trump before making any more decisions on retaliatory tariffs, Ireland’s deputy prime minister said. The EU wants to make progress ...more
A sign outside a BYD showroom in Budapest, Hungary. (Akos Stiller/Bloomberg News) BYD Co., a Chinese automaker, is turning heads with claims that it has developed an electric-vehicle platform enabling drivers to charge an EV in roughly the same time it takes to refuel a gasoline car. From "more features for no more price" and ...more
Recently released court records show that the CEO who was allegedly murdered by his own driver owed the man a “substantial amount of money”. 46-year-old ATG Truckload CEO, Dane Koteski, was found “lying face down in a pool of blood” in his office as it burned on March 5th in Crestwood, Illinois. On Sunday, March ...more
The Willkomm family announced the transfer of ownership of a Wisconsin truck stop to a large travel center chain. The Willkomm family announced that the Racine PETRO truck stop (located at 717 S. Sylvania Ave. in Sturtevant, Wisconsin), the TA Truck Service, and the Blue Badger Bar & Grill are under the ownership of TA ...more
The Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) responded to a truck fire at a weigh station entrance near Moorhead on Tuesday morning. The fire occurred on eastbound I-94, east of Moorhead, Minnesota, according to MSP Public Information Officer Sgt. Jesse Grabow.Grabow said that a semi truck caught fire at the entrance to the Red River Weigh Scale. ...more
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) issued a citation to a truck driver who allegedly ignored road closure signs and got stuck in the Lake Tahoe area. According to a March 18 social media post from CHP – South Lake Tahoe, a “commercial driver intentionally drove past the Road Closed sign & became stuck in the ...more
A truck driver gives his depressing opinion on the trucking industry and life in it in this brief interview. In the clip, the truck driver is fueling up when the filming man approaches him and asks the driver of 27 years if he’d recommend trucking to others. “No,” he says matter of factly. “You hate it?” ...more
