Trucking

General Motors is recalling 40,000 medium-duty trucks built by Navistar that can catch fire because of leaking brake fluid.

TruckParkingClub.com is launching hourly parking with a pilot program at a Kentucky McDonald’s restaurant.

FreightWaves will host the Small Fleet & Owner-Operator Summit on Wednesday with a full day of industry insights.

TravelCenters of America brings up failed deal in argument for BP purchase.

This week in Borderlands: $102M cold storage warehouse planned for Houston area; auto parts supplier opens $34M plant in Mexico; steel manufacturer, distributor expands Texas operations; and CBP seizes $21M worth of fentanyl in green beans shipment.

Geoff Kelley’s departure from Transportation Insight Holding Co. is part of a restructuring at the Atlanta-based company.

Despite what may be a lot of available parcels, Amazon may have better things to do with its capital than to chase UPS customers.

Layoffs continue at the FreightTech unicorn, Flock Freight, as 45 employees were fired at a recent all-hands company meeting, four months after 60 workers were let go.

A company with just under a 5% holding in TravelCenters of America wants the board to speak with Arko, whose bid for the company has been rejected so far.

Shippers are in a strong market position. At TIA, they talked about what they want from the brokers who serve them.

“There have been companies that have introduced [dashcams] with great success and haven’t lost any drivers at all, and then there are other companies that have lost quite a few drivers because of it,” Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels said.

One of the drawbacks of hydrogen adoption as a transportation fuel is the lack of infrastructure. Guess what? A network of hydrogen fueling already exists.

Schneider said Friday it will be a strategic intermodal carrier for the Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail line from Mexico to Chicago.

The potential widening of broker liability in the Miller case against C.H. Robinson is creating fears among 3PLs, but attorneys see a potential reversal.

Localz offers a differentiated platform, logistics IT firm Descartes says.

Paccar Inc. is taking a $600 million pretax charge against first-quarter earnings from settlements in a 2016 European price-fixing scandal.

Knight-Swift Transportation has recalibrated its 2023 outlook after posting an earnings miss to start the year.

Biden’s labor secretary pick says she’s ready to step in if West Coast dockworkers and their employers cannot resolve their remaining issues.

Volvo Group reported record sales and deliveries in the first quarter, projecting a positive note as the first truck manufacturer to release financials.

Link Logistics’ customers will be able to do a better job of managing energy consumption under a collaboration with Carrier Global Corp., the companies said.