Thomas Wasson

Based in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thomas is a writer and trucking analyst at FreightWaves. He reports on emerging truck technology trends and hosts the Truck Tech and Loaded and Rolling newsletters and podcasts. Previously, he worked at the digital trucking startup aifleet, Arrive Logistics and U.S. Xpress Enterprises. While at U.S. Xpress, he focused on fleet management, load planning, freight analysis and truckload network design.
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15 October
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Fleetworthy expands Expedited Inspection to five states

Fleetworthy added four states to Expedited Inspection, which hands enforcement a driver’s eRODS file when a truck is selected. A Nevada sergeant puts the savings at about 15 minutes.

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Volvo’s 15% share goal runs through vocational trucks

Peter Voorhoeve says infrastructure work and the data center boom will keep vocational demand strong, and Volvo built the VNX to stop sitting out a quarter of the market

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Westport becomes Aetherion, bets on CNG for US long-haul

Westport Fuel Systems is now Aetherion Technologies. CEO Dan Sceli said the rename follows a narrower strategy built on HPDI and the Cespira joint venture with Volvo.

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14 October
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Waabi signs Warrior Logistics for Dallas-Houston freight

Waabi says its Dallas-Houston commercial load volume is up more than 80% this year, and Warrior Logistics is now running routine customer freight on the corridor

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Volvo takes aim at vocational trucks with 540-hp VNX launch

The VNX shares a platform with the VNL and VNR, the product of a $3 billion investment, and gets a 540-horsepower D13 rated to EPA 2027 standards with 630 braking horsepower

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Pilot, Tesla open first Megacharger site, 12 more underway

Pilot Travel Centers and Tesla have opened their first Megacharger site for heavy-duty electric trucks, Pilot said Oct. 8. The site, at a Pilot travel center in Ellabell, Ga., has six charging stalls. Twelve more heavy-duty sites are under construction, and three are nearly finished: a Flying J in Tulare, California, which opened Oct. 9; […]

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13 October
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Bot Auto taps Lenovo, Nvidia, pegs autonomy hardware at $50,000

Bot Auto will put Lenovo’s AD1 domain controller in its driverless Class 8 trucks starting in Q1 2027, part of a push toward 1 billion autonomous miles by 2031

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Netradyne expands AI Agent lineup for fleet safety teams

Netradyne is expanding the agent ecosystem behind Netradyne Intelligence, adding ready-made agents, a custom agent builder and conversational answers drawn from live fleet data

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09 October
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Stord lands $400M Citi-led credit facility, adds CFO and CRO

Stord’s packages reach 1 in 4 U.S. households a year, the company says. It now has $400 million more in borrowing capacity to build warehouses and robots.

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Kodiak AI, Charger Logistics launch autonomous Laredo lane

Kodiak AI and cross-border carrier Charger Logistics are hauling CPG and food and beverage freight between Dallas and Laredo, Texas, with driverless operations planned after the safety case.

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08 October
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AV truck fleets win 5-Year exemption on warning beacons

Investors and partners kept asking AV trucking companies how they would handle warning triangles. FMCSA’s five-year exemption answers that through October 2031

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Factory backlogs build as freight and steel costs climb

Unfilled factory orders rose to $1.61 trillion in August while shipments stalled, and the steel, freight and diesel needed to work them off cost more in September.

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07 October
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Tesla Semi lands 50-truck order from drayage carrier IMC

IMC Logistics is adding 50 Tesla Semis to its California fleet, putting Standard Range models in port drayage and Long Range models on lanes between Southern California and inland destinations. The intermodal drayage provider announced the order in a release on Sept. 22. It did not disclose how many of each model it ordered or […]

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Coretura wants trucks to improve after they leave the plant

A new truck carries 100 to 150 small computers and is at its best the day it’s built. Coretura CEO Johan Lundén says a shared operating system can flip that.

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06 October
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Einride, EASE begin daily driverless freight runs in Ohio

Einride has two cabless electric trucks running daily for EASE Logistics in Ohio, a test case for whether autonomy can absorb unplanned short-haul freight.

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ZF raises U.S. outlook, pauses hybrid plan for U.S. trucks

ZF Commercial Vehicle Solutions raised its U.S. sales outlook for next year by about $50 million, an executive said at a media briefing ahead of IAA Transportation in Hanover, Germany. The German supplier also paused a U.S. hybridization project with a lead customer and is concentrating its new TraXon Hybrid transmission on Europe and Japan. […]

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Waabi takes its autonomous truck pitch beyond truckload

Hours-of-service relief can pay off on a regional LTL lane as well as coast to coast, Waabi COO Lior Ron said. Warp’s Dallas-Houston freight is the first test

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05 October
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ISEE partners with investor Holman on autonomous yard trucks

Autonomous yard truck developer ISEE signed a partnership with Holman, one of its investors, to package truck leasing, retrofits and fleet services for customers.

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Optimus Technology acquires SmartHop Freight Platform

Optimus Technology acquired SmartHop’s load and fleet management platform and plans to distribute it free through financial, insurance and logistics partners reaching tens of thousands of carriers.

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03 October
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Daimler Truck Defence sells scale to armies short on trucks

With up to 7,000 Zetros trucks headed to France and more than 1,500 to Canada, Daimler Truck Defence is pitching commercial scale to armies that need vehicles now.

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