TIA Names New President, CEO
The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) has announced that Anne Reinke will be the next president and CEO of TIA, starting at the end of October. She succeeds Douglas Clark, who was named interim CEO this past June.
Waymo: Lessons from Light-Duty Shaping Class 8 Autonomous Project
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 make autonomous trucking …
VW pays $3.7 billion for Navistar & access to North America
Pays $44.50 per share
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Hendrickson Looks to Future Following Motor Wheel Acquisition
After its recent acquisition of the Motor Wheel brake drum and Crewson slack adjuster business segments from Stemco, Hendrickson said it’s going to invest more capital and technology in the product lines.
NACFE Updates Low Rolling Resistance Tires Reports
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) recently completed a revision of its Confidence Reports on low rolling resistance tires, which were originally published in 2015, since industry developments fueled the need to revise the reports.
Traton reaches deal with Navistar
MUNICH, Germany – Traton SE, the truck and bus division of Volkswagen AG, said Friday it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire Navistar International. Traton, which already owns 16.8% of the American truck manufacturer, will buy the rest of …
The day an ELD mandate protestor and ELD provider visited the White House to talk brokers
Sounds like the set-up for a joke, yet in this Overdrive Radio edition owner-op Mike Landis and Ezlogz founder C.J. Karman narrate the story of how a May White House meeting came to be, culminating three weeks of protest with these continuing ripple ef…
International Truck parent Navistar agrees to $3.7B acquisition by Volkswagen’s Traton
Volkswagen parent company Traton has agreed to acquire Navistar for $3.7 billion – a value of $44.50 per share of the remaining 84% of the company that Traton didn’t already own.. In other news: Register here for the FMCSA’s broker freight listening se…
Winning small fleet’s custom trucks tie to its spinoff businesses
When JDT Trucking was named Overdrive’s 2020 Small Fleet Champ, one of its attributes cited was owner James Davis’ ability to branch into closely related enterprises. One involves custom part sales and fabrication, reflected in the fleet’s use of custo…
Natural Gas Safety Before & After an Earthquake
In observance of the 13th annual Great California ShakeOut event, SoCalGas shared the importance of emergency preparedness.