Volvo Trucks North America

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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Peterbilt takes the convention audience to school on electric truck math while Volvo puts ist VNR Electric to work on its own plant deliveries.

The similarities of solving fleet challenges helped Rich Mohr decide to leave Ryder System after 25 years to join ChargePoint.

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 Bronx.

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.

The UAW casts a second vote, barely approving a new contract at Volvo Trucks North America. The same proposal was rejected six days earlier.

Volvo implements terms of UAW-rejected third tentative agreement and encourages workers to return while the union urges them to hang tough.

Striking Volvo workers voted down a third tentative agreement, prompting the exasperated truck manufacturer to “consider all options.”

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In the fourth week of a second strike, UAW bargainers reach a third tentative agreement with Volvo Trucks North America.

Cummins is recalling 4,413 remanufactured engines on top of an earlier fuel rail recall that threatened engine fires in trucks, buses and motor homes.

Testing in Brooklyn convinced the New York City Department of Sanitation the Mack LR Electric refuse hauler has the right stuff for wider use.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration orders trucking manufacturers and operators to report crashes linked to autonomous technology.

Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.

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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United Auto Workers members at Volvo Trucks North America planned to resume a strike after rejecting a second tentative agreement .

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The previous UAW and Volvo Trucks North America tentative agreement went down in flames. A new deal may face the same fate.