Daimler Truck to Double Defense Business, Cut 5,000 Jobs
Daimler Truck headquarters in Berlin. (Bernd Weißbrod/dpa/TNS) Daimler Truck Holding AG said it plans to double the size of its defense business by 2030 as it seeks to profit from higher military spending globally. The world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles is looking to expand the high-margin product area while ...more
A truck driver turned himself in and paid in full after stealing back his own towed semi truck from an ...more
An impatient motorist comes uncomfortably close to causing a head-on collision with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania roadway. The ...more
The United Parcel Service is expected to cut 20,000 jobs and 73 buildings by late 2025 in an attempt to ...more
Manufacturers Strive to Strengthen Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech
Daimler Truck and Volvo Group formed Cellcentric via a joint venture in the spring of 2021. (Cellcentric gmbH & Co.) ...more
China Says It’s Evaluating US Overtures for Trade Talks
A Made in China sticker is displayed on a hat at a store in Chinatown in San Francisco on April ...more
Moving Hydrogen Fuel Forward Means Looking Beyond Its Colors
An ACT Expo panel discusses hydrogen. “We need to move away from this obsession with blue, green and gray,” said ...more
Trump China Tariffs Now at Least 145% as Trade War Ramps Up
Gantry cranes at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump’s tariffs ...more
March Class 8 Truck Orders Slip Amid Uncertain Landscape
Volvo Trucks North America North American Class 8 truck orders in March continued to trend ...more
Congress Adopts Trump Tax, Budget Blueprint
“That was a big step,” Johnson said April 10, reacting to the chamber’s approval of ...more
Trump Again Increases Small Parcel Tariff on China Shipments
"Made in China" labels on packages at a fulfillment center in New Jersey. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg) ...more
The police officer who shot into a semi truck on an interstate in Florida last ...more
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently conducted a single day traffic enforcement operation that netted ...more
On Thursday, Love’s Travel Stops announced the opening of a new store in Charleston, Missouri. ...more
A truck driver could have saved himself some soreness and humiliation if he had just ...more
FRA Finds Norfolk Southern ‘Should Be Doing More’ on Safety
Aerial image of the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4. (Gene J. ...more
FMCSA Will Accept Challenges to Meal-Rest Break Pre-emption Ruling
FMCSA's pre-emption decision was upheld in January 2021 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...more
Auto Parts Maker Shinhwa Plans Expansion at Alabama Facility
A drone view of the plant's interior. (Shinhwa) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An auto parts supplier ...more
SoCal Braces for Washed Out Roads From Storm Hilary
Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from Aug. 19 shows Hurricane ...more
ATA, Freight Leaders Press Congress on Excise Tax Repeal
The World War I-era federal excise tax is 12% on new commercial trucks. (Kenworth) When ...more
Sam’s Club to Open Big Distribution Center in Oklahoma City
Sam’s Club will open a 300,000-square-foot, multipurpose distribution center in Oklahoma City at OKC Logistics ...more
ZF Develops EV Motor That Cuts Out Rare Earth Materials
ZF’s new I2SM electric vehicle motor does not incorporate magnets. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) MUNICH, Germany ...more
Tesla to Supply Hilton Hotels With 20,000 EV Chargers
The installations are expected to be completed by 2025. (Hilton) Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is ...more