The Mack MD Electric, unveiled March 8, will be offered in Classes 6 and 7. (Mack Trucks) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking information by June 5 on zero-emission heavy trucks, fueling infrastructure and carbon-free port equipment to craft its clean port and heavy vehicles programs. EPA will use responses from this information request ...more
From left: Nucor EVP of Plate & Structural Products Al Behr; Nikola Global Head, FCEV Market Development Jason Roycht; PGT Trucking President Gregg Troian; and Nucor Steel Brandenburg GM Johnny Jacobs. (PGT Trucking) PGT Trucking, an Aliquippa, Pa.-based flatbed transportation company, announced on May 29 it had delivered its inaugural shipment of low-greenhouse-gas steel (GHG), ...more
Ford CEO Jim Farley with an F-150 Lightning electric pickup. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images via Bloomberg News) Hours before Tesla Inc. and Ford Motor Co. announced their surprise charging partnership, Ford’s chief executive officer offered his take as to why the U.S. has been so slow to adopt electric vehicles. The problem isn’t the cars, but ...more
From left: Satoshi Ogiso, President and CEO of Hino Motors; Koji Sato, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corp.; Martin Daum, CEO of Daimler Truck AG; Karl Deppen CEO of Daimler Truck Asia. (Daimler Truck AG) Daimler Truck will join merging Japanese companies Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. and Hino Motors as part of ...more
An incident is being investigated as an attempted suicide after a man flipped his car and ran in front of an oncoming semi truck in Florida on Monday. The incident happened on May 29th in Palm Beach County at around 9:14 a.m. According to the Belle Glade Sun, a man, his wife, and two daughters were ...more
In this video, a truck driver who refuses to drive any further on a bad tire winds up bringing law enforcement into the equation to advocate for vehicle safety. TikTok video creator and truck driver GearGrindingHyena recently shared a video documenting a conflict with their trucking company after concerns were raised about the state of ...more
On Tuesday, the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for an expanded commercial vehicle parking facility. The expanded truck parking area is located on I-40 westbound, west of mile marker 275 in West Memphis, Arkansas.The truck parking area was formerly a welcome center, officials said. This parking facility will feature 84 spaces ...more
A truck driver has been arrested after fleeing the scene of a wreck that took the life of another truck driver. Johan Heinrichs was arrested for the April 26th wreck on May 23rd in Dalhart, Texas.According to ABC 8, Heinrichs was driving along Highway 385 near Tulsa, Oklahoma when he sideswiped another rig driven by ...more
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into several claims of errors involving the Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) system on Freightliner Cascadias. According to NHTSA documents, an investigation was opened on May 26, 2023, in response to complaints from customers about the AEB system on 2017 — 2022 Freightliner Cascadia ...more
One person is dead after a chain-reaction crash in Indiana over the weekend. The accident happened on May 27th in Hendricks County along eastbound Interstate 70 near Old State Road 267 west of Indianapolis. An Indiana State Police spokesperson reports that “traffic was backed up from a minor crash on the side of the interstate just west ...more
