EPA decides it will enforce annual 300-truck cap on glider kit manufacturers...
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our sister site, CCJ. A Peterbilt glider kit from Hoover’s Truck & Equipment. Dump fleets are 5.5x more likely to buy a glider. Nixing a decision...
View ArticleVIDEO: Trucks “talk” to one another to form semi-autonomous “platoon” in...
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our sister site CCJ. As the next step in its arc toward developing truck platooning technology for real-world use, Volvo Trucks recently performed an...
View ArticleBill to exempt small trucking companies from ELD mandate introduced in House
A bill was filed earlier this week in the U.S. House that would, if passed, exempt the smallest trucking companies — those with 10 trucks or fewer — from compliance with the USDOT’s electronic logging...
View ArticlePower Shift: Electric trucks show great promise, but can charging and fueling...
As the electrified trucking market has sprung to life in the past 18 months, it appears almost certain that these alt-fuel Class 8 trucks will begin sharing the road with diesel-powered rigs as early...
View ArticleSettlement checks to Cat engine owners issued for wrong amount
Caterpillar exited the Class 8 engine business in 2009. The company handling settlement payouts to Caterpillar engine owners has said it will be reissuing checks to former ACERT engine owners who were...
View ArticleMercedes unveils new Sprinter van available in 1,000 different configs
Mercedes-Benz Vans has introduced the all-new Sprinter van, the new flagship product of the van segment’s global heavyweight. The third-generation Sprinter will be available for order in the U.S....
View ArticleBill to delay ELD mandate unlikely to garner enough support
More than 21 members of the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors to the bill that would delay the compliance date of the looming electronic logging device mandate. The bill, if enacted, would give...
View ArticleHouse bill would delay ELD compliance two years
A bill has been filed in the U.S. House to delay the compliance date of the federal government’s electronic logging device two years, to December 2019. If enacted, carriers would have two additional...
View ArticleCongress may attempt to alter or delay ELD mandate
A panel of lawmakers in the U.S. House on Monday issued a report advising the U.S. DOT to study whether a “full or targeted delay” of the federal electronic logging device mandate for small carriers...
View ArticleCummins unveils ZED Connect with launch of ELD smartphone app
ZED’s fleet management portal. Engine maker Cummins announced it has launched a new software company, ZED Connect, whose first offering is a smartphone-based electronic logging device that’s compliant...
View ArticleWith Supreme Court blow to ELD legal challenge, mandate has no roadblocks...
Hardwired systems like the GPS Insight ELD 2000 are less likely to break or get lost. The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a death blow to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s legal...
View ArticleSupreme Court declines to hear ELD lawsuit
The Supreme Court said June 12 it will not hear OOIDA’s lawsuit against the DOT’s ELD mandate, effectively ending the court bid to overturn the mandate. In a victory for the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleAutomation to transform trucking ‘faster than most think,’ forecasters say
Perry and Gross see the industry as on the verge of the automated revolution, which they say will be a major shock to the industry. Carriers need to prep to survive, they said. The trucking industry is...
View ArticleUSDOT proposes requiring speed limiting devices on heavy haulers
The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a proposed rule that would require trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds to be equipped with speed limiting devices (also known as speed governors...
View ArticleCummins intros predictive cruise, OTA updates for 2017 engine lineup
The 2017 Cummins X15 Performance In addition to unveiling its 2017 engine lineup, Cummins has introduced a new package of engine connectivity options that give fleets the ability to update their...
View ArticleCummins unveils medium-duty B6.7, vocational L9 engines
B6.7 At an event prior to the start of the NTEA Work Truck Show Tuesday night in Indianapolis, CUmmins unveiled the 2017 iterations of its medium-duty workhorses: the 2017 B6.7 diesel engine and its...
View ArticleDiesel prices down 16 cents in last 4 weeks
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell another 4 cents in the week ended April 6, according to the Department of Energy’s weekly report, extending its string of consecutive...
View ArticleNavistar’s comprehensive OnCommand telematics service is now free on all...
Navistar’s OnCommand Connection remote diagnostics system will now be free and standard on all 2007 and newer model International trucks, the company announced this week at the Mid-America Trucking...
View ArticleNavistar sued by federal government for withholding documents from investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed in December a lawsuit against Navistar International Corp. claiming the truck and engine maker improperly redacted and withheld documents the Commission...
View ArticleKenworth T880 named top work truck of the year by American Truck Dealers
The Kenworth T880 was named the American Truck Dealers’ Commercial Truck of the Year this weekend at the ATD Convention and Expo in San Francisco, besting the the Peterbilt 567 and the International...
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