A Walmart store in American Canyon, Calif. The staffing cuts represent a continued effort by Walmart to make its large workforce more efficient. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Walmart Inc. is cutting hundreds of store-support roles, its latest move to simplify the structure of the world’s largest retailer. The company is eliminating the market coordinator job that ...more
A Tesla Model S. George McGee was driving a Model S but not paying attention when it struck and killed Naibel Benavides Leon and seriously injured Dillon Angulo in 2019 in Key Largo, Fla. (Angel Navarrete/Bloomberg) Tesla Inc. hasn’t done enough to protect against drivers misusing its Autopilot system, a safety expert testified at a ...more
Norfolk Southern (left) and Union Pacific freight locomotives in Kentucky. Any large merger would be heavily scrutinized by regulators, but the environment is likely more amenable to consolidation under President Donald Trump. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) Union Pacific Corp. is exploring an acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corp., setting up what could rank as the largest railroad deal ...more
Tesla logo at a dealership in Germany. (Andreas Arnold/dpa/TNS) Tesla Inc. settled a high-profile lawsuit over a driver’s death in 2019 when the Autopilot system in his Model 3 allegedly failed to avoid a collision with a tractor-trailer crossing a Florida highway. The confidential settlement, disclosed in a July 7 court filing, came just before ...more
International Motors sales in June climbed 22.3% to 2,110 units from 1,725. (International Motors) U.S. Class 8 retail sales in June experienced their first year-over-year increase of 2025, according to Wards Intelligence data. Sales increased 12.5% to 20,392 from 18,134 in June 2024. They also increased 8.6% sequentially from the 18,778 in May. Year-to-date sales ...more
At his hearing, Barrs touted the Trump administration’s approach toward improving connectivity along supply chain corridors. (senate.gov) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration outlined his strategy for boosting safety and efficiency across the commercial transportation sector during a congressional hearing July 16. Derek Barrs, a former Florida ...more
Graphite ore at the Nouveau Monde Graphite Matawinie Mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec. (Renaud Philippe/Bloomberg) The Commerce Department will impose preliminary antidumping duties of 93.5% on imports of Chinese graphite, a key battery component, after concluding the materials had been unfairly subsidized. A trade association representing U.S. graphite producers in December filed petitions with two federal ...more
A Waymo autonomous taxi and a Tesla vehicle for robotaxi testing purposes in Austin, on June 20. (Eli Hartman/Bloomberg) Waymo is more than doubling its service territory in Austin as the driverless taxi firm looks to fend off competition from Tesla Inc. Through its partnership with ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc., Waymo said July 17 ...more
A national trucking company has agreed to pay more than $900,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against over-the-road truck drivers with medical conditions. Western Distributing Co. is to pay $919,000 in monetary relief to sixty victims of discrimination in order to settle a federal lawsuit, according to a July 16 statement issued by the ...more
A $90 million verdict awarded to a family injured in a crash with a Werner Enterprises semi truck has been overturned more than a decade after the fatal accident. The December 2014 crash happened on Interstate 20 near Odessa, Texas when an F-150 pickup truck lost control in icy conditions and crossed the center median, ...more
