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
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
A motorist’s dash cam captured a heavy duty truck tow job fail. The dash cam clip was shared by Reddit user u/Home_free_now on May 28.In the video, a wrecker is hauling a truck in one of the center lanes of the interstate when the truck begins to wobble, eventually toppling over onto its side. The ...more
Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) traffic cameras captured a major truck explosion on Monday morning in Columbus. The crash occurred around 1:15 a.m. on May 29 in the eastbound lanes of I-70 on the west side of Columbus.An eastbound tractor trailer struck a concrete barrier, resulting in an explosion. Remarkably, the truck driver was able ...more
A truck driver was arrested on Monday after hitting two motorcycle riders at an intersection in New Mexico. The accident happened on May 29th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the Albuquerque Journal, police were called after a truck driver struck two motorcyclists when it failed to yield to them while turning at the intersection of ...more
