If you’ve spent the last year watching driverless trucks rack up miles on the lanes you used to run and felt something between anger and dread, that reaction is fair, it’s shared by most of the industry, and it isn’t paranoia, because the deployment timeline that always seemed to sit five years out has quietly […]
Samsara’s new Compounding Risk Report found that the top 10% of drivers ranked by its Risk Model accounted for 47% of crashes, highlighting how fleets can use risk data to focus coaching on drivers and behavioral patterns that warrant attention.
Cambridge Mobile Telematics has launched a platform that gives freight brokers access to recent carrier driving data as the industry faces greater scrutiny around carrier selection and safety.
Verified Carrier and MiKargo247 are partnering to offer brokers spot cargo insurance coverage for strategic theft, including fraud involving double brokering, carrier identity theft and fictitious pickups.
Shell Rotella will release a video Sept. 13 featuring professional truck drivers discussing their careers and experiences in trucking. The recordings were made at the 2026 Mid-America Trucking Show, where nearly 100 drivers participated.
Volvo Trucks has completed its North American rollout of a software update system that lets drivers start over-the-air updates and leave the truck while the software installs, reducing the need for separate service stops.
Shell and FAW Trucks have developed and tested a battery pack that uses an immersion-cooling system to better manage battery heat, improve vehicle performance and durability, Shell announced. The battery pack uses an electrically insulating fluid that surrounds the battery cells, allowing heat to be transferred away from the cells more effectively during operation. Managing […]
Samsara is launching its free driver perks program for professional drivers, offering discounts and deals from more than 50 brands. The program is available to drivers in Samsara’s U.S. network and is designed to provide benefits across fitness, food and beverage, wellness, travel and personal development.
TruckSmarter and its AI chat-based driver app, Dispatch, have been sold and will be shut down on Friday.
Every experienced driver has a story about it, or knows someone who does. A truck follows a navigation app built for cars, and the app cheerfully routes it toward a bridge it cannot clear, a road it is too heavy for, or a turn it physically cannot make. The low-bridge strike is one of the […]
Autopilot dispatchers rank freight by posted rate because nobody gave them the arithmetic. MapUp’s new MCP server prices a lane’s fuel, tolls and time in seconds.
Continental brings a national dealer footprint and decades of tire expertise. myMechanic brings the software that turns a phone chain into a tracked digital event.
Oil in the power distribution box can knock out lights, wipers, brakes and engine power on 5,919 new Kenworths and Peterbilts. Most failures give no warning.
A Business That Did Not Exist Yet In 1997, if a fleet needed a repair, the truck went to a shop. That was the entire menu. That was the year Bob Dickinson started what became Dickinson Fleet Services out of a small operation in Indianapolis, and his grandsons Kyle and Kevin Coltrain grew up around […]
Congress is fast-tracking a bipartisan DEF relief bill. The half in the press release stops trucks from derating to 5 mph over a false sensor code. The half you have to read the text to find suspends the 2027 emissions rule for 10 years
The pardons ended nine ordeals. The mandate that created them is still on the books, still in the field, and still pointed at the trucks that move America’s military freight.
For any owner-operator who has ever been stranded on the shoulder of an interstate at 5 miles per hour because a sensor decided the diesel exhaust fluid system had a problem, the announcement PACCAR made on July 6, 2026 will read like overdue relief. The company is rolling out updated software for trucks equipped with […]
On July 3, 2026, President Trump pardoned early a dozen people who were convicted under the Clean Air Act for tampering with diesel emissions, months after the Justice Department stopped prosecuting diesel cases entirely. The technology is still bolted to every truck on the road, and nobody in Washington wants to discuss the “what now” of who pays for it.
A claim is circulating that stops you mid-scroll: a California small fleet can now buy a Tesla Semi for as little as $50,000. The Tesla Semi carries a $290,000 sticker. The post lays out how two California incentive programs stack to knock $240,000 off that price, leaving a net cost of roughly $50,000, which it […]
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) Snap-on Incorporated just bought Diesel Laptops for $100 million in cash. The deal closed on June 8, 2026. The move gives Snap-on a stronger foothold in the world of big truck and heavy […]
