Cleo’s OTIF report models $10 billion to $11 billion in direct costs and $85 billion to $90 billion in indirect losses for North American CPG and food manufacturers.

Phillips Connect launched two smart trailer products Sunday at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina. Insights reads trailer sensor data to diagnose tire and lighting problems. TrailerSignal, a light on the trailer nose, shows green when a trailer is ready to dispatch and amber when it isn’t. Both target […]

Highway has lost one load out of a million under its $100,000 performance guarantee. Its CCO says the next step is getting insurers, factors and ELD vendors to vouch for their data

PACCAR Connect arrives in early 2027 and links Kenworth and Peterbilt drivers to Platform Science’s Virtual Vehicle app marketplace, days before PACCAR reports Q3 results.

Volvo Trucks North America launched the Silver Service Contract at ATA’s Management Conference, adding powertrain repair coverage to its connected Blue maintenance plan.

TLA Group’s Telly Arnold says box truck newcomers hear about revenue first, then learn about insurance deposits, freight claims and breakdowns the hard way.

Job boards show Tesla recruiting for Semi assembly, quality and service roles in Sparks as WattEV, IMC and the ZET SCALE alliance line up electric Class 8 orders.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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; […]

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 […]