Southeastern Freight relocates SC service center
Has 207 dock doors
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C.A.T.’s natural gas trucks get boost with Hyliion e-axles
COTEAU-DU-LAC, Que. — C.A.T. Transport is taking a new step in its natural gas propulsion approach, as the company’s first hybrid truck hit the road a few days ago. The Freightliner Cascadia, already powered by a Cummins ISX 12G compressed …
Faces of the Road: Annette Wilcox, a fresh perspective on life OTR
Wilcox transitioned to trucking in her 50s more than a decade ago — her “Bumping the Dock” memoir chronicles initial impressions of life trucking over-the-road with fresh eyes from the time past, with the benefit of nearly two decades’ hindsight as we…
TIA names new leadership as broker regs conflict takes shape
Anne Reinke’s hiring as President & CEO of the broker group comes amid conflict between truckers’ groups over transparency regs. In other news: 10,000th product Pete 579 Ultraloft goes to Long Haul Trucking; new service app from Hankook tire.
The p…
EPA, SCAQMD Award to Help Deploy 70 All-Electric Volvo Trucks
Volvo Trucks North America was recently awarded $20 million in grants to deploy 70 VNR Electric trucks as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Targeted Air Shed Grant Program, as well as $1.7 million in charging infrastructure funding fro…
Man who led cops on tractor-trailer chase, struck & killed
Ends on Interstate 5
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Daimler Recalls Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner Sprinters for Fuel Leaks
Approximately 4,010 model-year 2019-2020 Mercedes Benz and Freightliner Sprinters are being recalled due to fuel line clamps that may loosen and result in a fuel leak.
Volvo receives funding to deploy 70 VNR Electrics
FONTANA, Calif. – Volvo Trucks will deploy another 70 Class 8 VNR Electric trucks in California, thanks to US$27.1 million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). Volvo …
Autonomous Waymo trucks learning lessons from lighter class
TORRANCE, Calif. — Before the industry began eyeing the possibility of driverless semis, there was a little car secretly driving around the country with no one at the wheel. This has now evolved into a new project, Waymo Via, which is looking to …
Ritchie Bros. sets Chilliwack auction record
CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Ritchie Bros. sold more than 1,600 pieces of equipment worth $34 million at an auction in Chilliwack, B.C., last week, surpassing the previous site record by 39%, the company said Monday. More than 6,400 bidders from 44 countri…