Vocational trucks

The overcapacity of on-highway trucks would look worse without underlying support from Mexico and strong vocational demand.

New Class 8 truck deliveries have fallen for four consecutive months even as vocational equipment sales rise.

Fleets waited two years for back-ordered Class 8 trucks. Now largely met, demand has shifted to replacement needs.

What’s behind Paccar’s stunning Q2 profits? Inflation is part of the answer. So is a burgeoning parts footprint.

The Freightliner M2 and SD Plus medium-duty trucks coming in 2023 draw a family resemblance to their Class 8 sibling Cascadia.

Western Star advances a family makeover with the second entry into its X-Series of vocational trucks.

Xos’ Dakota Semler and FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill chat about electrifying less glamorous vehicles such as armored trucks and transit vehicles.

A car-crazed high schooler, Samatha Parlier learned long before becoming vice president of vocational market development for Daimler Trucks North America that even though both have wheels and engines, off-highway trucks are quite different from passenger cars.

Six years in development, the new vocational truck adopts safety technology from Daimler Trucks’ on-highway models with other firsts for extreme-use trucks.

Volvo Trucks North America has announced a new auto hauling tractor that is based on its recently introduced VHD vocational truck.

The numbers game is intensifying as falling used truck prices and swelling inventories persuade fleets to hang on to younger equipment until they can break even.

Western Star celebrated a production milestone the same week as parent Daimler Trucks elevated the off-highway truck segment for which the 53-year-old brand is best known.

Volvo Trucks is building on sales of electric trucks for urban transport in Europe with battery-electric concepts for construction and regional distribution.

The door to TRATON Group selling trucks in North American opened a crack with a memo of understanding between Navistar and TRATON to sell Scania mining trucks in Canada.

Designs of future vocational trucks by students at the ArtCenter College of Design may contain some long-term value for the Western Star Truck Sales subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America.

International’s new CV Series of Class 4-5 trucks is designed to help smaller companies scale and give larger fleets the opportunity to expand their businesses with one truck maker.

In keeping with its refreshing of its lineup over the past few years, Navistar has announced a new vocational model at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta this week.