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Autonomous Vehicles
Truck Talk: Machine gun-tested edition
Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on the week's happenings in the trucking industry.
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Equipment
Western Star births little brother for 49X vocational truck
Western Star advances a family makeover with the second entry into its X-Series of vocational trucks.
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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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News
Daimler recalls 122,056 heavy-duty trucks for possible loss of electric power
Engine stall from broken battery terminal cable leads Daimler Trucks North America to recall 122,056 Freightliner and Western Star trucks.
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Newsletters
Transmission: Can Class 8 truck producers keep up with demand?
There continue to be concerns about when these new orders will be prepared, as many truck manufacturers continue to deal with semiconductor shortages.
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Trucking
Western Star recalls 6,830 trucks for stalling due to faulty wiring harness
Western Star is recalling 6,830 trucks for possible stalling due to a faulty wiring harness. Some are being called back for a second time.
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Trucking Regulation
Feds fine Daimler Trucks $30M for slow recall reporting
Daimler Trucks North America signed a consent order with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agreeing to pay up to $30 million for tardiness in…
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Trucking
Is Daimler Trucks going to go it alone?
German newspaper Handelsblatt says Daimler AG may spin off Daimler Trucks in 2021 to spare it the drag of Mercedes-Benz’s financial struggles.
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News
Big trucks and big bucks — WHAT THE TRUCK?!? (with video)
Dooner and the Dude talk to an author about his biography of a railroad legend and get a look at Western Star's new truck.
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News
5 questions with Daimler Trucks North America’s Samantha Parlier
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…
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