Volvo Trucks North America
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Electric Trucks
Truck Talk: There’s a grant for that edition
Truck Talk is a weekly FreightWaves newsletter providing perspec on autonomous, electrification and other key issues in the trucking ecosystem.
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First Class 8 electric trucks headed for Texas
Fleetmaster Express recently ordered 10 Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks to transition from a diesel fleet to an electric one.
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Electric Trucks
Truck Talk: Tasty leftovers edition
Truck Talk is a newsletter that applies perspective and context to electrification, autonomy and the future of freight transportation.
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Electric Trucks
ACT Expo notebook: Peterbilt’s math lesson and Volvo’s big day
Peterbilt takes the convention audience to school on electric truck math while Volvo puts ist VNR Electric to work on its own plant deliveries.
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Breakthroughs and misconceptions: 9 questions with ChargePoint’s Rich Mohr
The similarities of solving fleet challenges helped Rich Mohr decide to leave Ryder System after 25 years to join ChargePoint.
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Electric Trucks
Cold one: Manhattan Beer Distributors all in on electrifying beverage trucks
Volvo’s first Class 8 VNR Electric truck on the East Coast goes to a beer distributor dedicated to cleaning air in New York City’s South…
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Company earnings
Volvo Group posts solid Q2 results despite losing month of production
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…
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FreightWaves Classics
FreightWaves Classics: White Motor Company was a trucking pioneer
White Motor Company was a pioneer in automobiles and trucks for more than 80 years. Read a profile of the company in FreightWaves Classics.
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UAW ends strike at Volvo after split revote on latest offer
The UAW casts a second vote, barely approving a new contract at Volvo Trucks North America. The same proposal was rejected six days earlier.
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End game: Volvo reopens plant and encourages strikers to come back
Volvo implements terms of UAW-rejected third tentative agreement and encourages workers to return while the union urges them to hang tough.
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