Equipment & Tech

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

North American Class 8 truck orders rose to 21,300 units in September, up 3% year over year, according to FTR.

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

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.

A truck out of service along the side of a highway with a service technician truck and warning beacons placed along the roadside edge

More than 60 zero-emission truck models are on the market, Rådström said. Daimler Truck wants chargers, hydrogen stations and CO2-based tolls to catch up to them.

PlusAI’s merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III values the autonomous trucking developer at $800 million, with $60 million committed ahead of a vote.

Harbinger calls it one of the largest binding orders ever placed for medium- or heavy-duty electric trucks. All 2,000 units are slated for delivery by the end of 2027.

CEO Karin Rådström said the integrated setup differentiates Daimler Truck from every other player, as its Freightliner and Western Star brands hold 37.8% of the Class 8 market.

Kodiak’s first unsupervised long-haul service will carry IKEA goods between Houston and Dallas later this year, after 750,000 autonomous miles with an observer in the seat.

Noncompliance penalties in the proposed amendments to the EPA NoX rule are being objected to by Daimler.

Back in May 2023 I called the Tesla Semi a glorified day cab with poor driver positioning and weak features. In July 2025 I said that outside of what it could do as an electric truck, it was never appealing from a driver’s standpoint, and that current cab configurations ran circles around it on comfort, […]

Aurora plans to exit 2026 with 200 driverless trucks and wants 30,000 by 2030. Werner, one of its driverless customers, said the economics only work once scale brings costs down.

Clarios is bringing Battery Manager to Europe after connecting about 1,100 vehicles, pitching fleets on a company-estimated $500 per truck per year in avoided battery costs.

This article is contributed content from an independent writer. It does not represent the views or opinions of FreightWaves or any of its subsidiaries. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he has already told his team to consider a ban on diesel exports. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said officials are studying whether a full or partial […]

Samsara’s new Model Context Protocol gives trucking companies a way to access live fleet data through third-party AI applications without building custom integrations.

Coretura has selected Alloy Kore, a software platform jointly developed by Vector and QNX, as the foundational software layer for the high-performance computing systems in its commercial vehicle architecture.

Tesla formally inaugurated its dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada on September 24, a 1.7 million square foot plant built adjacent to Gigafactory Nevada, and while the company framed the day as the start of high volume production, the first truck actually came off that line back in April, which makes this less a factory […]

Einride expects its footprint to reach 1,500 to 2,000 vehicles by 2028 and says about 80% of that demand is suitable for automation in the medium term.

The order is the largest for electric trucks in the U.S. to date, organizers say. Deployments will concentrate in 10 freight hubs from Los Angeles to Newark.