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California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law
Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...
A Universal Battery-Hydrogen Delivery Truck Out Of London
Tevva hydrogen electric truck, class 5-8, ACT Expo 2022 david blekhman via forbes Tevva, a UK based advanced clean vehicle developer and manufacturer, is launching production of its first 7.5-tonne hy...
UK-based startup Tevva launches hydrogen-electric truck
U.K.-based startup Tevva on Thursday launched a hydrogen-electric heavy goods vehicle, becoming the latest company to make a play in a sector attracting interest from multinationals like Daimler Truck...
At Least 46 Migrants Found Dead Inside Abandoned Truck Near San Antonio
Topline At least 46 people believed to be migrants were found dead inside and near an abandoned tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, a tragedy that appears to be linked to efforts to sm...
In June, The Average New Car Or Truck Costs Nearly $6,000 More Than A Year Ago
Many auto dealership lots are looking empty these days, due to a shortage of computer chips. In … [+] turn, high demand and low supply are driving record-high prices. Getty Images U.S. auto sale...
Electric Truck Maker Nikola Faces a Major Roadblock
Nikola (NKLA) – Get Nikola Corporation Report is certainly aiming high. The electric and hydrogen-powered truck company has said that it is “driven to revolutionize the economic and envir...
SF Fire Dept. Says Cruise Robotaxi Did Not Yield Properly And Delayed Fire Truck
File photo of a San Francisco Fire Truck going through an intersection Getty Images According to reports, a San Francisco Fire truck on way to a fire was delayed by the combination of a garbage truck ...
EV truck battle heats up as Ford delivers first F-150 trucks; F stock goes up
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) seemingly delighted a retail customer in Standish, Michigan, by making its first delivery of the F-150 Lightning truck. Allegedly, the customer is a Tesla Model 3 owner wh...
Rural Electrification 2.0 – The Electric Truck Is Here
Ford F150 Lightning kicking dust on a dirt road. J.Repak Productions Growing up in rural America, my first vehicle–like many of my friends–was a truck. Like many before me, moving to a city meant trad...
Plus Partners With Velociti To Install PlusDrive On Existing Truck Tractors
PlusDrive equipped trucks are on the roads now. The Plus Build partnership with Velociti aims to … [+] increase the pace of deployment. Plus.ai Self-driving truck developer Plus announced today ...
Embattled Electric Truck Maker Nikola Delivers Good News
Nikola (NKLA) – Get Nikola Corporation Report just kept a promise. The electric truck manufacturer has just taken an important step in its young history. And it’s a step that could chang...
The Dakar Hydrogen Racer Comes To The ACT Expo In Long Beach
The Gaussin Dakar Rally hydrogen truck GAUSSIN As a part of its worldwide tour to promote hydrogen heavy duty and logistics vehicles, French manufacturer Gaussin is bringing its Dakar-tested hydrogen ...
Bad News For Berry, Avocado, Tomato, Lime Prices With Mexican Truck Inspections
Mexico is accounting for 95% of all U.S. tomato imports this year. That is one of many fruit and … [+] vegetable imports that cross the Pharr International Bridge, where a truckers’ blocka...
Walmart says it is raising pay for truck drivers, starting training program
A Walmart truck departs the company’s distribution center in Washington, Utah. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart said Thursday that it is raising pay for long-haul truck drivers and l...
GM to halt pickup truck production in Indiana due to chip shortage
Trucks come off the assembly line at GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 25, 2018. John Gress | Reuters DETROIT – General Motors will halt pi...
Freight Truck Shortages Are Changing The Face Of Logistics
Michelle Sodomka, a Senior Director at Open Sky Group Open Sky Group TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) – in its most recent call with financial analysts – reaffirmed that they expect to have...
13-Year-Old Drove Truck In Texas Collision That Killed 9, Federal Officials Say
Topline A pickup truck involved in a fatal accident in West Texas on Tuesday was driven by a 13-year-old child, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday, as more details emerge on the cr...
House Democrats Demand Investigation Into Postal Service’s New Mail Truck Deal
Topline Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general Monday to investigate the agency’s plan to replace its mail trucks with largely gas-powered vehicle...
TuSimple Shares Plunge After Robot Truck Company Spooks Market With CEO Shakeup
TuSimple was the first autonomous driving company to list shares publicly in the U.S. and began testing robot trucks without a human backup driver in late 2021. TuSimple Shares of TuSimple, a San Dieg...
Ford cuts SUV, truck production at two plants due to chip shortage
An employee works on a Ford Motor Co. Super Duty Truck engine at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 30, 2016. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ford Motor is once agai...
Chinese Self-Driving Truck Startup Secures $188 Million In Funding From Sequoia China And Legend Capital
Inceptio’s autonomous driving heavy-duty trucks. Courtesy of Inceptio Autonomous driving truck startup Inceptio Technology has raised a $188 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital China an...
Embattled Electric Truck Maker Nikola Makes a Big Promise
When Nikola (NKLA) – Get Nikola Corporation Report Mark Russell said the electric truck maker had an extraordinary year in 2021, nobody argued with him. Russell was detailing the company’...
Humans Are the Last-Mile Problem of Bitcoin Crowdfunding for Canada Truck Protest
On Monday, after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted the never-used “Emergencies Act,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said banks are allowed to freeze accounts related to the prote...
Haul Wins $10 Million Investment As It Gigafies Commercial Truck Driving
Haul is a company that gives commercial truck drivers the opportunity to choose their jobs, … [+] schedules and set pay goals using its mobile platform. Haul Here’s the latest idea for dea...
Nikola Kicks Off Hydrogen Truck Tests With Pre-Super Bowl Beer Runs For Anheuser-Busch
A Nikola Tre fuel cell semi-truck on California’s 405 freeway. Anheuser-Busch Electric truckmaker Nikola Corp., which recently started delivering its first battery-powered semis, is showing off ...
First Race Car Trailer To Be Delivered To NASCAR Event By Electric Truck
No. 2 Discount Tire Ford Mustang awaits loading onto the No. 2 Discount Tire Ford/Freightliner … [+] trailer to be pulled by a Freightliner eCascadia tractor approximately 50 miles from Fontana,...
Truck Automation Players Take Las Vegas By Storm At Manifest 2022
Automated trucks from seven developers at Manifest 2022 Richard Bishop We are awash with a myriad of conferences and symposiums about automated driving. There’s a lot of good offerings out there, but ...
Opinion: A 27-year-old truck driver just became Robinhood’s first big headache of 2022
Less than a week into the new year, a 27-year-old truck driver from Connecticut might have given Robinhood HOOD, -1.76% a whole new thing to be worried about in 2022. On January 6, an arbitrator for t...
Volta Commercial Electric Truck To Be Guided By Unique No-Address App
Electric Volta Zero commercial truck will employ HERE Technologies integrated navigation system that … [+] provides use of the what3words app that divides the world into unique three-word addres...
Iveco Falls on Debut After Split to Navigate Truck Shift
(Bloomberg) — CNH Industrial NV’s truck and bus division Iveco Group NV declined during its first day of trading that valued the company at about 3.9 billion euros ($4.4 billion), weeks after a ...