Trucking

Maersk will deploy 300 Class 8 electric trucks from Einride in its U.S. warehouse and distribution network.

In its initial order for the next-generation delivery vehicle, the Postal Service surprised by ordering a mix of powertrains that includes 20% electric vehicles among the 50,000-vehicle order.

Financial technology platform Outgo emerges from stealth with a vertical banking solution that automates bookkeeping functions for carriers.

CEO Barkoff isn’t revealing much about the next initiatives at the 4-year-old Relay Payments, which has attracted significant investment.

Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.

If imported adult beverages are your thing, there’s a good chance DHL or J.F. Hillebrand took care of the shipping.

After a panel discussion extolling better relations between shippers and carriers, a question sets off a discussion on current selection processes.

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. leverages parent Daimler Truck North America’s dealership and service network to battle competitors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they found a loaded gun and meth in an American trucker’s cab during an inspection at the Ambassador Bridge U.S.-Canada border crossing.

FMCSA’s safety boss grapples with a huge wave of truck entrants since the pandemic.

AskWaves looks at dynamic pricing and how it fits into an increasingly automated LTL complex.

The cause of a tractor-trailer driving off a highway and bursting into flames in Rayne, Louisiana, remains unclear.

With Daimler Truck already on board, Platform Science adds Navistar as the second manufacturer to factory install its open-source telematics.

Sites in Kansas, New Hampshire, Vermont and Utah now are using the Drivewyze system to reduce manual processes in truck inspections.

Reports link Prologis as a suitor of Blackstone’s last-mile network in Europe.

The founder of the fundraising arm of the People’s Convoy says trucking organizers may “wrap up the federal convoy this week” amid dwindling donations to protest government mandates regarding COVID-19 and other political issues.

A separate bill keeps all of the state’s 47 rest areas open to allow for truck driver stops.

Gatik’s Gautam Narang will be an industry keynoter at The Future of Supply Chain event.

Building geographic scale and expanding a book of business is not the main driver, Muessig says. Instead, it’s access to scarce assets.

At the press conference announcing the deal, the first user of the Locomation technology, Wilson Logistics, gave an update on what it is doing in the autonomous space.