Trucking

Developer’s scale designed to make life easier, less expensive for warehouse customers.

The official line on continuing negotiations is unchanged. But Nikola’s CEO refers to GM batteries and fuel cells for its trucks as alternatives.

Radiant Logistics uses cost savings to offset demand declines from COVID-19. The fiscal first quarter sees debt decline further as acquisitions remain on the table.

Trucking companies are among the major unsecured creditors owed money after Eagle Manufacturing Inc. of Red Lake, Minnesota, filed Chapter 11.

Electric delivery van maker Workhorse Group draws tough questions from analysts following battery supply issue and lack of deliveries to UPS.

Companies that got less than $150,000 would have their names publicly released; that had happened only for firms that borrowed in excess of that.

Schneider has added an app to its FreightPower tech solution, giving carriers the ability to book loads with a single click and shippers more tracking capabilities.

Self-driving vehicle company Nuro has raised a $500 million Series C round of funding, as autonomous delivery continues to pick up new markets. The raise, announced on Monday, was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from new investors including Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC and Baillie Gifford. […]

The United States is the largest steel importer in the world, buying $23.9 billion worth of raw steel in 2019.

Lawyer Keating hired a ‘runner’ who as it turned out was already involved in staging accidents with trucks; he then joined in on the planning, according to indictment

Industry speakers, technology demos and venture capitalists took center stage last week for FreightWaves’ FreightTech Venture Summit and LIVE @HOME events. Now you can catch sessions you may have missed or rewatch those that most interested you with a special rebroadcast of the events beginning Tuesday.

Workhorse Group said 36% of its production staff is sidelined by the COVID-19 virus or awaiting test results. The company ditched its projection of building 300-400 electric delivery vans by the end of the year and badly undershot Q3 sales and earnings projections.

Initiative designed to leverage USPS’ network to provide peak-season relief for desperate parcel shippers.

Garner Transportation Group president and CEO is the second woman to chair the American Trucking Associations.

Manufacturers take varied approaches to avoiding the chicken-and-egg conundrum of electric trucks. PACCAR is selling and financing them with leases for battery-powered trucks.

The incoming Biden administration is expected to increase regulatory oversight of electric and self-driving vehicles.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Record-breaking Mexican blockade costs $81M; A&R Logistics expands in Houston; Mexican export bank seals $600M loan; and TA Services acquires Top Gun Freight.

Amazon has ambitions to expand its air network internationally, and now has its own airport sort center in Europe.

Roehl Transport sees plaintiff attorneys “having a field day” with the current proposal.

Volkswagen AG’s truck holding company TRATON and Navistar International Corp. reached a definitive agreement on TRATON’s $3.7 billion buyout of the maker of International trucks and IC buses.