Quiet and zero tailpipe emissions battery-electric trucks are gaining popularity across the industry for parts shipment to assembly plants.
Sweden’s Volvo Group reported strong Q4 results but pointed to normalizing demand, code for lower sales already visible in slackening orders.
Electric trucks and charging infrastructure should advance this year without some of the growing pains that held them back in 2023.
New Class 8 truck deliveries have fallen for four consecutive months even as vocational equipment sales rise.
Cummins’ aggressive scaling of electrolyzers will need other players to meet expected midcentury hydrogen demand.
Israeli tech startups count on losing some employees to military reserve duty. Many more are called during wartime.
Mack Trucks took a hard line against the UAW, which voted to ratify a contract the union had overwhelmingly rejected in October.
Striking United Auto Workers will vote again next week on a Mack Trucks offer it earlier rejected after the company declined more sweeteners.
Fleets waited two years for back-ordered Class 8 trucks. Now largely met, demand has shifted to replacement needs.
Electric trucks are expensive, so Mack Trucks figures avoiders might go for a monthly subscription fee and pay by the mile.
A threat to Mack Trucks’ primary business exists as long as brinksmanship with the striking UAW continues.
New economic demands from striking UAW employees at Mack Trucks brings a strong retort from the truck maker.
Volvo Group reported strong third-quarter results but reported slowing orders as trucking demand returns to normal.
After a week of striking by 3,900 workers in three states, bargainers at Mack Trucks and the UAW will resume talks Thursday.
United Auto Workers-represented employees at Mack Trucks will strike for the second time in four years after rejecting a tentative agreement.
Can Outrider hold onto its healthy lead in distribution yard autonomy as competition begins to form?
A change in a new five-year contract between the UAW and Mack Trucks would extend the work day for 30 minutes for about $3,000 more a year.
Mack Trucks and the United Auto Workers union reached a settlement on a new five-year agreement, avoiding a walkout like four years ago.
United Auto Workers-represented workers at Mack Trucks could strike as soon as Monday if no deal is reached to replace their four-year contract.
Mack Trucks filed a recall for 27,418 heavy-duty trucks because their turn signal visibility does not comply with a federal safety standard.
Federal regulators are cracking down on trucking-related exemption requests that fail to provide safety justifications.
Proterra customers are sanguine about the electric bus and battery maker’s bankruptcy reorganization. They expect deliveries to continue.
Most Volvo and Mack electric trucks built since 2019 will get new batteries because of a fire risk caused by loose material in the batteries.
Could Kodiak leverage some of the work Navistar has in on a redundant chassis for a Class 8 autonomous truck?
The production of electric trucks is still so small that it’s easy to overlook the hundreds subject to recall campaigns.
Megawatt charging is too much for pretty much every electric truck save for the purpose-built Tesla Semi. But that is slowly changing.
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference?
Martin Weissburg is retiring as president of Mack Trucks after five years. He is being succeeded by Stephen Roy.
Volvo Group reported record sales and deliveries in the first quarter, projecting a positive note as the first truck manufacturer to release financials.
Proterra Inc. and Ouster Inc. are just two of many technology startups and growth-stage companies struggling financially.
Mack, Isuzu and Hino offer new battery-electric medium-duty work trucks as the industry transition accelerates from diesel and gasoline power.
What does it mean to have a former Daimler Truck executive in charge of Torc Robotics? Experience guides a big mission focus
Batteries. Electrified components. Fuel cells. Cummins Inc. has plans for all of them. But hydrogen-making electrolyzers top the list.
A cross-section of Industry experts offer thoughts on how transportation management systems will integrate with autonomous trucks.
La sanción es una de las mayores impuestas por la agencia por infracciones de la Ley de Seguridad
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fined the Volvo Group $130 million for slow reporting of safety recalls.
Volvo Group set a fourth-quarter record for deliveries, but the OEM said supply chain disruptions and energy costs would impact business.
As valuations of SPAC-backed startups plummet, one autonomous trucking developer that avoided the FOMO and stayed private is thriving.
Autonomous trucking language can be a little off-putting to the uninitiated. One exception may be the term “feature complete.”
This week: J.B. Hunt donates money and supplies to over 55 classrooms across the U.S. Drivers for Mack Trucks take to social media with animal selfies for a good cause and Love’s donates to a child advocacy group that helps foster care children.
Mack Truck is recalling 27,544 Granite models from nine years of production, but it argues there is no safety risk.
A theme emerges as you look around the electrification and autonomous trucking space. Practically no one does it alone.
Pilot Co. and Volvo Group move to keep public charging on pace with electric vehicle adoption as Prologis adds charging installations.
Driver-facing cameras are seen as intrusive and an invasion of privacy in the truck-driving community. Yet fleets are rapidly adopting them.
Volvo Group posted solid Q3 results but said ongoing supply chain issues will cause shutdowns and raise prices.
TruckWings, the aerodynamic invention of Daniel Burrows, has more value than just the half-billion miles of on-road experience.
The Volvo VNR Electric lacks a nifty interior, but two extra battery packs add serious range on a single charge.
Romeo Power founder Michael Patterson shares what happened at the startup battery maker as a cautionary tale for other SPAC-backed startups.
Volvo Trucks North America is making vehicle as a service mandatory for buyers of its Class 8 electric trucks.
After nearly a year of accepting only orders they were sure they could build, heavy-duty truck OEMs fully opened orderbooks in September.
Does a comfy ride that resembles what they drive off duty keep a truck driver happier? OEMs seem to think so.
Development of 48-volt battery systems for commercial trucks will serve at least three purposes but the most urgent is in helping reduce emissions.
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Mack Trucks left the medium-duty market for two decades. The initial reaction to its return suggests people missed the bulldog.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
A joint venture focused on automated manual transmissions is responsible for the practical end of manual gearboxes in heavy-duty trucks.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter focusing on autonomous, connected and electric innovations in the trucking ecosystem for fleets.
Mack Trucks has begun serial production of its fully electric LR model in Macungie, Pennsylvania..
he parking brake may release unintentionally on about 22,000 refuse trucks, creating a potential rollaway. Mack has reported five crashes to NHTSA.
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A Mack Trucks facility was the backdrop Wednesday for President Biden to highlight his plan to require that 75% of the value of a product’s components be made in the U.S.
Volvo makes no mention of the UAW strikes but smaller sibling Mack Trucks delivers more units in Q2 as the industry recovers from year-ago pandemic shutdowns.
Striking Volvo workers voted down a third tentative agreement, prompting the exasperated truck manufacturer to “consider all options.”
In the fourth week of a second strike, UAW bargainers reach a third tentative agreement with Volvo Trucks North America.
Testing in Brooklyn convinced the New York City Department of Sanitation the Mack LR Electric refuse hauler has the right stuff for wider use.
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As a UAW strike at Volvo enters its third week, the impact is reducing shifts at a Maryland engine plant that serves Volvo and Mack Trucks.
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After calling off a 13-day strike at Volvo Trucks North America, the UAW rank and file repudiated its leadership by rejecting a new five-year contract.
The United Auto Workers took down picket lines Friday after a 13-day strike at Volvo Trucks North America.
Daimler Trucks and Portland General Electric opened their Electric Island charging site as part of a border-to-border charging corridor.
Canadian trucking giant Mullen Group wades into truck sales after acquiring a small Volvo and Mack dealership as part of the acquisition of British Columbia’s Bandstra Group.
UAW calls walkout after 30-day extension fails to result in agreement. No new talks until at least April 26.
Incentives help make Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks affordable for a food logistics supplier, whose 14-unit order benefits from a $3.9 million grant.
Kenworth spent five years preparing a new range of medium-duty trucks, its first all-new lineup in three decades.
Kenworth and Peterbilt avoid downtime from semiconductor shortage by parking unfinished trucks and getting back to them later.
Largely spared the automotive industry impact from semiconductor shortages, truck manufacturers are starting to take downtime.
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On this episode of Midday Market Update, Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent look at downstream effects from California’s port crisis.
The first Mack medium-duty trucks in nearly 20 years are finding favor with customers.
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Weathering the COVID pandemic drove Volvo Group sales lower in 2020, but market share was stable and new orders are pouring in.
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In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, TFI International will acquire UPS Freight. Plus, the West Coast has supplanted Chicago as the king of the freight world, and outbound tender volumes keep falling.
Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks are making parts easier to find and order by integrating a truck’s vehicle ID with its fleet unit number.
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Volvo Group Q3 sales and earnings trailed last year. But a recovery in heavy-duty truck orders and market share gains in North America improved a bleak picture.
Denny Slagle retired as Volvo Group executive vice president and Mack Trucks president in 2018.
After testing its battery-powered LR Electric refuse truck in New York City and with Republic Services, Mack Trucks will take orders in Q4 for deliveries in 2021. Republic, however, committed in August to startup Nikola for 2,500 cabover Tre models beginning in 2022.
Katharina Rath will be tasked with driving German logistics giant’s “global transformation process.”
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