B.C. fleets face massive Covid-19 revenue losses

LANGLEY, BC – Surveyed members of the BC Trucking Association (BCTA) are reporting a 29.8% drop in revenue due to Covid-19 – representing a further 9.3% drop since March. The province’s largest trucking organization describes the trucking and motor coa…

Daimler Truck Financial offers financing incentives

PORTLAND, Ore. – Daimler Truck Financial has introduced a new program for financing Freightliner and Western Star trucks. The Keep the World Moving program is aimed at customers who support critical infrastructure, offering the flexibility to upgrade o…

Q&A: Starsky’s Seltz-Axmacher on Autonomous Trucks

Starsky Robotics had to give up on its goal of truly driverless trucks earlier this year after failing to secure additional needed funding. HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park recently spoke to founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher about what happened and why true s…

D.C. protest reached an apex on Wednesday inside the White House

Amid financial pressures and abysmal rates for many small-business truckers, the demonstrations in D.C. on their 20th day Wednesday reached an apex with a meeting in the White House with administration reps on the subject of issues in the brokered-frei…

Fleet data offers contact tracing tool for Covid-19

TORONTO, Ont. – The spread of Covid-19 is a contact sport. A truck driver could be exposed to respiratory droplets when someone nearby coughs or sneezes, through personal contact like a simple handshake, or by touching a surface that has the virus on i…