Landstar Posts Q1 Revenue of $1.15B After Fraud-Related Delay
Landstar's Q1 2025 included a $4.8 million pretax charge related to the fraud incident. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics) Landstar System reported its first-quarter earnings following a two-week delay caused by a supply chain fraud incident, the company said May 13. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based motor carrier posted net income ...more
Class 8 Truck Orders Fall 52% During April
“April was the lowest industry order intake for a single month we have seen since May of 2020,” Koeck said. ...more
Volvo Autonomous TaaS Product to Be Known as Autona/freight
A lane between Dallas and Houston is the starting point for the on-highway Autona/freight program from Volvo Autonomous Solutions. (Volvo ...more
Toyota Suffers $1.3 Billion Profit Hit in Two Months on Tariffs
A new Toyota Tundra truck for sale at a Toyota dealership in Yuma, Ariz., on March 31. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg News) ...more
Maersk Cuts Global Container Market Outlook on Tariff War
Maersk shipping containers. (Jeppe Boje Nielsen/Bloomberg) A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the Danish container giant, lowered its forecast for the global transport ...more
US and UK are Set to Announce Trade Deal
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the ...more
Trump Agrees to Cut Tariffs on UK Autos, Steel
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the ...more
Trump Holds Firm on Tariffs Before China Negotiations
Trump’s stance underlines the massive divide between the U.S. and China on trade and the ...more
Fed Holds Rates Steady as Inflation, Job Risks Rise
Companies scrambled in the first quarter to import merchandise ahead of the tariffs, and a ...more
USPS Eyes FedEx’s David Steiner for Postmaster General Role
(Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg) The U.S. Postal Service is zeroing in on FedEx Corp. board member David ...more
Demand Surges for Renewable Natural Gas, RNG-Powered Trucks
A Freightliner fifth-generation Cascadia equipped with a Cummins X15N engine on display at ACT Expo. ...more
Demand Jumps for Renewable Natural Gas, RNG-Powered Trucks
A Freightliner fifth-generation Cascadia equipped with a Cummins X15N engine on display at ACT Expo. ...more
A truck driver was charged with manslaughter following a double fatality crash in Thomasville, Alabama, ...more
Thousands of commercial vehicle drivers who received physical exams in Houston could face license downgrades ...more
Two men without legal status in the U.S. have been sentenced to prison in connection ...more
Security video captures the moment of tanker truck crash on I-95 in Philadelphia
Security cameras at a nearby business captured the moment that a tanker truck crashed on ...more
VIDEO: Big bear makes himself at home in work truck
A bear goes looking for snacks inside a work truck in this video recently captured ...more
Michigan Welcomes RXO to Ann Arbor
RXO and Michigan officials celebrate the logistics company's arrival in Ann Arbor, Mich. RXO will ...more
Peterbilt Announces New Paccar TX-18 Features
The transmission is designed to perform in a variety of vocational applications. (Paccar) Peterbilt Motors ...more
Winning EV Battery Race Called 21st Century ‘Moonshot’
“Winning the battery manufacturing race for electric vehicles is the moonshot of the 21st century,” ...more
Truck driver killed in explosion at Illinois ammunition plant
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating the death of a ...more
Pepsi Leads Calls for EU to Roll Out Green Trucks Faster
Volvo VNR. Volvo AB is aiming for 100% of its global sales of new trucks ...more
The FMCSA is quietly working on making ‘in-motion roadside inspections’ happen
Federal transportation authorities are currently at work on new technologies that will make it possible ...more