Quebec startup prepares to enter U.S. market with digital platform offering smaller carriers easy accesses to trailers, and large fleets to minimize unused assets.
TTN Fleet Solutions will provide emergency roadside services to Mckinney Trailer Rentals.
Wabash National says it has $1.2 billion of trailers in its production backlog with cancellations at normal levels and demand robust.
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 2018.
Caroline Mulroney will be the ministry’s third leader in less than a year as province’s government contends with widespread public dissatisfaction.
Ancra has introduced automated decking, which adjusts itself up and down the trailer based on keypad inputs from the user, eliminating the need to manually adjust support beams.
Xtra Lease announced it will invest more than $300 million to buy more than 10,000 trailers in 2019, the company’s largest capital investment in over-the-road trailers in a single year.
Truck trailer orders dropped for the third straight month in February.
New truck and trailer purchases currently include a 12 percent federal excise tax, adding tens of thousands of dollars to the purchase price. A new coalition is looking to lobby for the repeal of the tax.
Record intermodal shipments on the rail for the second year in a row has deep implication for the trucking market into 2019. Trucking will benefit, at least partially, from Norfolk Southern’s latest decision.
