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Business
July new heavy-duty truck orders lowest since 2010
July heavy-duty truck orders were the lowest since 2010, more evidence of a trucking sector recession taking hold.
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Business
Trailer orders plunge to 10-year low in June
Trailer orders hit their lowest level in nearly a decade in June, mirroring the slowdown in new truck orders after record performances for both in…
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Equipment
Class 8 orders rise slightly in June, but post worst first half of year since 2010
Class 8 truck orders rose sightly in June from May's figures, but posted their worst first six months of the year since 2010.
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Trucking
Conditions continue to improve for shippers
As rate pressure eases, conditions for shippers continue to improve.
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Trucking
Today’s Pickup: Kenworth adds remote diagnostics to medium-duty trucks; Trucking Conditions Index falls
Good day, Truck makers have been insisting that medium-duty truck owners are starting to look for the same type of data analytics and remote diagnostic…
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News
Truck trailer orders down again in February, but analysts predict another record year
Truck trailer orders dropped for the third straight month in February.
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Intermodal
Today’s Pickup: DHL Group hopes to attract drivers by getting them out of the truck, trailer orders come in high again
Deutsche Post DHL Group (XETRA: DPW) has taken a new approach to recruiting driving in Europe: offering to rotate them out of driving roles. Following…
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Economics
2019: The year of the same, or maybe better
More of the same. That was the consensus in a quick informal poll of listeners to FTR’s State of Freight webinar on Thursday when they…
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Driver issues
FTR and ACT report another banner month in the class 8 order book
If the trucking market is nearing a peak, it isn’t showing up in the order books of truck OEMs.
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FreightWaves Infographics
Class 8 Truck Orders — September 2018
North American Class 8 net orders came in around 42,800 units in September, according to preliminary data released by ACT Research.
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