The 35th Annual National Truck Driver Appreciation Week runs Sept. 10-16, providing an opportunity to give special recognition to the more than 3.5 million truck drivers who safely and professionally deliver America’s critical goods to communities from coast to coast. NTDAW MICROSITE, PHOTO GALLERY: Sponsored by KenworthThousands of trucking companies, manufacturers, producers and industry suppliers ...more
(1933bkk/Getty Images) Mitchell International launched a new collision repair training program with Axalta Coating Systems. The Truck Fleet Damage Analysis and Estimating program provides repairers with instruction on how to streamline the appraisal process for collision-related damages for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. It also covers how to optimize paint profitability. Axalta’s Refinish Academy is providing ...more
A row of Tesla's electric vehicle charging stations. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the U.S., just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%. The pace of adoption in California picked ...more
DHL Group delivery trucks at a parcel distribution warehouse in Munich. (Michaela Rehle/Bloomberg News) DHL Express started shipping this week from Miami to Argentina, as part of its cargo hauling expansion from South Florida to Latin America.DHL plans to fly cargo six days a week between Miami International Airport and Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos ...more
A rendering of a truck stopping behind a vehicle on a highway by the automatic braking system. (Chesky_W/ Getty Images) Organizations representing heavy trucks were generally supportive of a joint proposed rule to require automatic emergency braking technologies on heavy trucks — with caveats. But comments from some, including dozens of individual truck drivers and ...more
The used truck market is changing every day, says James Rys of House of Trucks. (House of Trucks via Facebook) Used Class 8 sales in July decreased 9.3% year-over-year to 19,500 units from 21,500, ACT Research reported. The average retail sale price for a used truck fell 25.4% to $64,897 from $86,987 during the year-ago ...more
The installations are expected to be completed by 2025. (Hilton) Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is partnering with Tesla Inc. to install 20,000 universal electrical vehicle chargers at 2,000 of its hotels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The McLean, Va.-based company said it plans to have at least six wall-mounted chargers at selected hotels that ...more
The port project is expected to create 19 jobs and generate $50,000 in private investment. (Port of Oswego Authority) Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced a $4 million economic development grant to New York’s Port of Oswego to buy new cargo-handling equipment and improve rail infrastructure to increase U.S. exports. “The Biden-Harris administration’s Investing ...more
An autonomous truck in Stack AV’s test fleet. (Stack via Bloomberg) The founders of the former self-driving unit of Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG are launching a new autonomous trucking startup with backing said to be more than $1 billion from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp.The new firm, named Stack AV, is led by Bryan ...more
