Equipment & Tech

Five months into the job, Motive’s president of go-to-market says the camera in the cab protects it from AI startups that may not last

For most enterprises the first sign of a winter storm is still a broad, countrywide warning, the kind that tells a leadership team something is coming but says nothing about which lanes will fail, which distribution centers sit in the path, or which customer commitments are about to slip, and in a season shaping up […]

Every December a towering evergreen rises on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and gets called the People’s Tree, but before a child from its home state flips the switch to light it, the tree has to survive something most of the public never stops to consider, a journey of more than 2,000 miles […]

The Garden Grove, California, company has raised more than $650 million since 2021. FedEx and THOR Industries participated as strategic investors in the new round

Humble Robotics raised a $51 million Series A to push its cabless, electric Humble Hauler into customer pilots, testing and early manufacturing for dock-to-dock freight.

The scramble is over. Carriers and owner-operators who spent the past few years chasing build slots, paying inflated prices for used units and taking whatever iron they could find are now facing a different problem: plenty of options and very little margin for a bad decision. Lead times have stabilized, used pricing has found a […]

North American Class 8 truck orders declined 36% year over year in October due to regulatory uncertainty, equipment costs and tighter fleet budgets, FTR said.

With the trucking sector anticipating the release of the final rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on nitrogen oxide (NoX) standards–known colloquially as EPA ‘27–and what engines need to do to get there, one of the country’s biggest truck retailers took the issue head on its recent earnings call with analysts. The message by William […]

Aurora reported a $257 million operating loss on $3 million in revenue and cut its full-year forecast

Venti Technologies has run driverless container trucks in Singapore for nearly three years. Its CEO says U.S. rail yards needed new skills first, starting with reverse.

DTL Transport signed a binding deal to put the Kodiak Driver in 75 trucks it owns and operates, starting on Dallas-El Paso and Dallas-Atlanta lanes Kodiak has tested.

Aurora Innovation signed a nonbinding MOU with Charger Logistics for up to 500 driverless trucks, adding to a carrier-owned pipeline Aurora needs to hit its 2030 targets.

For the better part of eight months the price of diesel has climbed to levels that gasoline has not come close to matching, and for a carrier whose single largest variable cost is the fuel in the tank, that split is not a curiosity but a direct hit to the bottom line, which is why […]

Merchants Fleet launched FleetShare in Puerto Rico on Sept. 14 for an unnamed global e-commerce company. It did not disclose contract terms or pricing.

For a small carrier, the choice of whether to own a trailer, finance one, run power only, or rent by the day looks like a simple equipment question, but it is really a business decision with a cost structure attached to every option, and getting that math wrong is one of the quietest and most […]

Johannes Ariens sells everything from electric motorcycles to hydrogen semis. He says the industry is trying to skip a step, and that small fleets with medium-duty trucks should go first.

With the EPA ‘27 engine rules impacting nitrogen oxide (NoX) emissions in heavy duty vehicles getting closer every day, the new rules will have a major impact on anybody who buys new vehicles…like Ryder. Ryder’s (NYSE: R) third quarter earnings released early Thursday were solid enough that it propelled the stock up 10.49% to $265.53, […]

Trailer orders jumped sharply in September as carriers moved to secure equipment ahead of potential price increases, while heavy-duty truck purchases showed mixed signals.

A month after agreeing to build its next Einride Driver on Nvidia Hyperion, Einride said it will adapt Alpamayo to its trucks, routes and data, with a road evaluation set for 2027.

Automaker Tesla says it began volume production of its Class 8 electric Semi truck in the third quarter, marking a major milestone ahead of its planned 2027 commercial expansion.