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
The United Parcel Service is expected to cut 20,000 jobs and 73 buildings by late 2025 in an attempt to ...more
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is reminding bus drivers that they are not exempt from stopping in for an inspection ...more
A truck driver rescued from a dangling semi truck in Louisville was just one of three truck crashes over the ...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
Hundreds of people shared public comments in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) ...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
The city of Charlotte has released a new platform to help truckers find safe and ...more
Tesla Recalls Cybertrucks After Steel Trim Pieces Come Loose
Tesla says it will foot the bill for replacing the panels with ones that meet ...more
The Pennsylvania State Police are still searching for a truck driver who has been on ...more
Ambassador Warns Canada About Using China as ‘Bargaining Chip’
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said last week that China had executed four dual Canadian-Chinese ...more
Dollar Tree Sells Family Dollar for $1 Billion
Dollar Tree Inc. acquired Family Dollar for more than $8 billion in 2015. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) ...more
Edison Motors has built a diesel-electric hybrid semi truck prototype, with more hybrid truck builds ...more
Lawmakers have reintroduced “common sense” legislation to provide truckers with access to restrooms at shipper ...more
NHTSA Denies Side Underride Guard Petition From Nonprofit
A side underride guard installed on a truck. The equipment has been the source of ...more