Package delivery giant UPS is offering drivers a financial compensation package if they voluntarily resign as the company undergoes a massive restructure. On Friday, July 18, UPS announced the “US Driver Voluntary Severance Plan (DVSP),” which provides the company’s full-time drivers with “an opportunity to receive a generous financial package ...more
Use Cases for Truck Fleet Hybridization Begin to Emerge
Range Energy said its goal is to make the diesel tractor-trailer more efficient and cleaner. (Range Energy) Hybrid technologies that ...more
Duffy Extends Marine Highway 848 Miles, Spurs River Economies
The Cumberland River in Kentucky. (alexeys/Getty Images) Kentucky’s barge business will benefit since three of its rivers now rank among ...more
Port of Los Angeles Experiences Busiest June on Record
Containerships at the Port of Los Angeles. Overall volume for the first half of the year was about 5% above ...more
Lucid’s CEO Warns of Price Hikes Even for American-Made Cars
Workers assemble a Lucid electric vehicle in Newark, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) The head of Lucid Group warned that ...more
Trump Threatens Russia With 100% Tariffs Over Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (left) shakes hands with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office on ...more
Perspective: How to Combat Auto Transport Fraud
While most transactions in the movement of cars go smoothly, scams often lie in wait. From phishing attempts to double ...more
June Truck Orders Drop 36% From Last Year
A Mack truck in production at the company's Lehigh Valley, Pa., manufacturing plant. ACT's preliminary ...more
DOT Chief Sean Duffy Named Interim Administrator of NASA
Sean Duffy. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) President Donald Trump named Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as ...more
Trump Says 50% Levy on Copper Imports to Take Effect Aug. 1
Copper cathode sheets. (Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin levying a ...more
Musk Says Grok AI Is Coming to Tesla Vehicles by Next Week
The Grok chatbot logo on a smartphone. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence ...more
Trump’s 50% Copper Tariff Could Rattle US Supply Chains
As Trump prepares to slap a 50% levy on imported copper as of Aug. 1, ...more
Unilever Sells Venezuelan Ice Cream Unit to Mack de Venezuela
The financial details of the operation haven’t been disclosed, the firm added. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) Unilever ...more
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Flags Complacency on Tariff Threat
“Unfortunately, I think there is complacency in the markets,” Dimon said. (Patrick Bolger/Bloomberg) Markets are ...more
Transportation Panel Embraces ‘Back to Basics’ Highway Plan
Spending from the Highway Trust Fund has exceeded revenues since 2001, according to Transportation and ...more
VIDEO: Pickup trying to avoid stopped semi veers into dash cammer, sending him crashing into Porta Potty
A motorist in a white pickup causes a multi-vehicle collision when he crashes into the ...more
Weaker Truck Sector Tire Demand Induces Q2 Loss at Goodyear
A Goodyear plant in Thailand. (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) Weaker demand from the U.S. ...more
VIDEO: Car driver in a hurry to pass a truck rear-ends a Connecticut trooper
A motorist in a rush gets pays the price for impatience when their attempt to ...more
Electric Vehicle Tech Maker Proterra Files for Bankruptcy
A Proterra charging system. The company also makes EV batteries and electric buses. (Proterra) Proterra ...more
WATCH: This “Peter-toon” boat is turning heads
A trucking company owner turned a team-building exercise into “the most interesting boat” ever to ...more
Diesel Price Up Another 13.9¢ to $4.378 a Gallon
A Pilot Flying J tanker carrying fuel along Interstate 25 in Loveland, Colo., Aug. 8. ...more
San Francisco Tests Out Driverless EV Shuttle
A driverless shuttle stops for a passenger on San Francisco's Treasure Island. (Terry Chea/Associated Press) ...more
Cruise to Cut San Francisco Fleet in Half After Crashes
Cruise has agreed to no more than 50 driverless vehicles in operation during the day ...more