Daimler Sees NAFTA Class 6-8 Market Dropping 15%
Citing “sustained contraction” of global truck markets – including North America– Germany’s Daimler Trucks has adjusted its 2016 outlook. The OEM now expects its operating earnings will “significantly lower” this year vs. “the very good levels of last…
Senate Keeps Hours-of-Service Fix in Funding Bill
The Senate has passed a transportation funding bill that includes a fix of earlier legislative language that muddied what might happen to the Hour of Service rule’s restart provisions if a mandated study cannot show that the restart changes benefitted …
California Clean Air Plan Calls for Further NOx, PM Reductions
As part of a broad-reaching clean air program, California has proposed a low-NOx engine standard for heavy trucks. Another part of its plan is to push the Environmental Protection Agency for a nationwide low-NOx engine standard.
Champion curler visits Transcourt booth during company’s first year at Truxpo
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – This was the first year Transcourt Tank Leasing took part in the British Columbia Trucking Association’s Truxpo event, and the company was happy to welcome world champion curler Georgina Wheatcroft to its booth. A member of New…
City wants semi drivers to use designated route
On most days, a police car parks on the side of a Franklin street, waiting for semis coming from Interstate 65 to disregard truck route signs and drive into downtown. In the past 10 months, Franklin police wrote nearly 100 tickets to truckers who passe…
Summit Trailer raises over $6K for Fort Mac evacuees
EDMONTON, Alta. – Summit Trailer held a barbecue May 10 to raise funds for those displaced by the Fort McMurray wildfire, raising $6,100 for the Canadian Red Cross. “Over the years of doing business, Summit has made many customers and…
Startup wants to put self-driving big rigs on US highways
An Otto driverless truck is seen at a garage in San Francisco. An 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one behind the wheel might seem reckless to most people, even in an age when a few driverless cars already ar…
Truckers urged to join human-trafficking fight
Last month two Arkansas teens were rescued from an purported human trafficker in Maryland. Police responded to a domestic-violence call someone phoned in after seeing a woman dragged out of a vehicle.
Will robots replace truck drivers?
Some companies may dream of a system of delivery trucks that don’t stop, because they don’t need drivers who sleep or eat. Companies like Uber and Google are all over driverless cars, but there is one startup made up of ex-Google employees that is taki…
Law bringing changes to truck driver sleep requirements
There’s a battle in congress over how much sleep a truck driver needs to be safe on the road. “[He] didn’t even slow down going about 70 MPH,” Snider’s father Roger Hampshire Sr. said.