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Starting last week, the 2020 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree began its 2,000-mile journey to the White House just in time for the holiday season. View the full article -
A pair of Paccar zero-emission trucks — a Kenworth T680 fuel cell electric vehicle and a battery-electric Peterbilt Model 579EV — recently became the first Class 8 zero-emissions vehicles to drive to the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado. View the full article
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Traton and Navistar have officially entered into a definitive merger agreement after announcing that the companies had reached an agreement for Traton to buy out the remaining shares in Navistar on October 16. View the full article
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Independent certification of the self-driving technology is a critical step toward proving the commercial readiness its self-driving technology in China. View the full article
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Productivity and efficiency can be greatly enhanced through better and closer management. That once cost time and money; then ELDs came along. View the full article
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Carriers are right to be concerned about managing personal conveyance, and drivers who misuse personal conveyance are essentially creating false logs. View the full article
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Meritor’s CEO and president, Jay Craig, will soon transition to the role of executive chairman of the board of directors, with Chris Villavarayan, executive vice president and chief operating officer, succeeding him. View the full article
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Heavy Duty Trucking's editors have launched our annual search to seek out the trucking industry's most innovative leaders for the HDT Truck Fleet Innovators award. View the full article
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Stoughton Trailers has named a director of intermodal sales as many of the nation’s ports face an intermodal chassis shortage. View the full article
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Starting in 2021, European carriers will have access to all-electric versions of Volvo's line of heavy-duty trucks. The announcement came in conjunction with Volvo Group's Capital Markets Day, where the company laid out its strategy to provide solutions that are “100% safe, 100% fossil-free and 100% more productive.” View the full article
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Volvo Trucks North America announced it will begin selling the Volvo VNR Electric truck model on Dec. 3. It will start producing the VNR Electric at its New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia, in early 2021. View the full article
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Pride Group Enterprises recently reserved 150 Tesla Electric Semis with the option to increase the order to 500 trucks. View the full article
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When your trailers outnumber your tractors almost five to one, you need peace of mind when it comes to asset protection. For Vaughan Xpress, that meant installing Road Ready’s smart trailer system. View the full article
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to learn more about how the trucking industry might integrate trucks with autonomous technology into fleets. View the full article
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There's much more to preventing tired or drowsy driving than just complying with hours of service. A sleep expert and author offers a few tips on how to keep truck drivers awake and alert at the wheel. View the full article
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California voters approved Proposition 22, agreeing with the gig economy companies that the state’s strict ABC test set forth in last year’s controversial AB5 law should not apply to drivers such as those for Uber and Lyft. What does this mean for trucking? View the full article
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H.K. Truck Center, a New Jersey-based truck dealership, will distribute, sell, and service Lion’s complete lineup of zero-emission trucks in the state. View the full article
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With a volatile market impacted by COVID-19, growth in last-mile delivery, and changing needs for alternative-fuel trucks, the truck tire industry is looking forward to a positive future. View the full article
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In an effort to improve driver comfort and productivity, Mack Trucks is now adding the availability of Apple CarPlay and Mack Premium Comfort 2.0 seats in Anthem, Pinnacle, and Granite models. View the full article
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According to separate ACT Research and FTR reporting, October’s preliminary North American Class 8 orders jumped to 38,900 units and 40,100 units, respectively. View the full article
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Peterbilt’s battery-electric Model 579EV is now available for customer orders with the OEM’s Peterbilt’s SmartSpec dealership sales tool. View the full article
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the absence of fleet drivers when exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and quarantined. When fleet vehicles are idle during driver absence, proper maintenance ensures their performance when they are active again. View the full article
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For the past decade Green APU has been efficiently powering trucks with reliable hotel loads. With the fifth generation of its signature product, the company is committed to building on its success as it enters its second decade. View the full article
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The cost of insuring big rigs keeps getting larger. Rising auto insurance rates have affected nearly every fleet operator – premiums for long haul trucks have doubled in the past decade. However, fleet owners can take steps to reduce insurance costs by implementing key safety programs, taking care of their drivers, and working with the right insurance broker. View the full article
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Daimler announced a strategic partnership with Luminar Technologies, a provider of automotive lidar hardware and software technology, to address a key enabling technology for autonomous truck operation, or what Daimler calls "highly automated" trucks. View the full article
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