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CALIFORNIA – California is receiving $78.4 million from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in a settlement recently reached after a lawsuit. Federal, an .... Read More

UNITED STATES – What is going on with the trucking industry? According to an analyst, due to the drop in trucking stocks over the .... Read More

CALIFORNIA (state) -- Tesla, one of the biggest car manufacturer companies offered the advantage of the full $7,500 EV federal tax incentive for buyers placing order by Oct 15, but a last minute change was reported in dates. According to Elon Musk’s tweet, they have “acquired trucking capacity” that will help the deliveries of Model 3 vehi .... Read More

The protests against the FMCSA’s ELD (electronic logging device) mandate the first week of October brought together different communities of truck drivers from different parts of the country. On upcoming Monday (Dec. 4) meetings have been scheduled in different locations in more than 40 states around the nation. All meetings are planned to s .... Read More

HAWTHORNE, California -- On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled his firm's fully-electric Class 8 semi – truck at a special event in Hawthorne, CA. By Friday morning, buyers were already lining up to get their hands on one of the beasts.   At the sam .... Read More

The driver of the San Antonio truck James Matthew Bradley Jr. said federal investigators that he was unaware of several undocumented immigrants inside the truck which he was driving. The 60-year-old driver was charged on Monday with knowingly moving undocumented immigrants. A man who survived the trip told federal authorities that when they were c .... Read More

  A new speed regulators (limiters) are proposed by the DTNHSA (Department of Transportation’s National Highway Safety Administration) for big trucks on the way. The purpose of the new speed restrictions is to decrease the number of serious accidents which involve large trucks. According to National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA .... Read More

The North American product line of Volvo got a makeover. The old VN, which was launched in 1996, needed to be modernized. The new Volvo meets the needs of the long-haul trucking customers and professional drivers. Before the revealing of the truck Nyberg, President of Volvo Truck North America, stated: “Twenty years ago, we turned the industry .... Read More

According to Dan Popkin, senior vice president of enterprise solutions for ALK Technologies,  a near-term driving force for technological development is going to be helping the trucking industry better control the "real life experiences" affecting its operations in the here and now. As he said, he feels that will help the industry become safer an .... Read More

Under-ride guards at the backs of semi-truck trailers have been on going tests for quite a while now, the purpose of these tests was to find out which ones are more beneficial when it comes to preventing gruesome accidents that occur commonly on our roads. The organization behind these tests is the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The IIHS h .... Read More