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Nikola Sets Truck Production Schedule, Envisions Autonomous Model

Zero-emission truck maker Nikola Corp., which recently jumped to a publicly traded company from its startup perch, has begun building prototypes of its heavy-duty battery-electric model in Germany and is set for groundbreaking on a plant in the United States this summer.

June 17, 2020

Is Tesla Bigger Than Toyota? It’s Complicated

Many investors, including those using financial data terminals such as Bloomberg’s, were seeing something very different — that Tesla still had to gain more than $25 billion in market value to surpass Toyota.

June 15, 2020

KLLM Adds Intermodal Containers With Vector 1550 Refrigeration Units

KLLM Transport Services has added 610 domestic intermodal refrigerated containers that use Carrier Transicold’s thin-profile Vector 1550 refrigeration systems.

June 15, 2020

Perspective: Federal Excise Tax Relief Can Aid Recovery

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world. In the United States it altered the way our country operates and wreaked havoc on American businesses, but leaders in Washington responded with actions that helped mitigate the damage. I applaud these efforts and am confident that our economy will bounce back. But the work is not done.

June 15, 2020

Getting Back to Work: New Fleet Strategies

Leading fleets are finding this 15-minute PM is saving repair costs and cutting down time. The technology is proving to be the solution to increase uptime, lower repair and PM costs, and end aftertreatment problems, providing quick ROI.

June 7, 2020

Daimler Marks Milestone as Sprinter Turns 25

Daimler AG celebrated a 25-year milestone for its Mercedes-Benz Sprinter model, which began production in 1995, and whose roots go back 40 years to the company’s initial array of small cargo vehicles in various shapes.

June 5, 2020

Trucking-Related Companies Find It Difficult to Identify 'Conflict Minerals' in Supply Chains

It has been more than six years since America’s public companies began searching for African “conflict minerals” throughout their supply chains, and it remains difficult for trucking-related companies to know if some of their products are being made using tantalum, tin, tungsten or gold, or “3TG,” mined and refined in Congo and nine of its neighbor countries.

June 4, 2020

Nikola Goes Public; Class 8 Battery-Electric Vehicle Due in 2021

VectoIQ Acquisition Corp.’s stockholders on June 2 voted in favor of the previously announced business combination with Nikola Corp., a startup manufacturer of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks.

June 3, 2020

Number of Electric Commercial Vehicle Offerings Surge, Calstart Says

North America is experiencing a surge in zero-emission commercial vehicle offerings, according to research from Calstart, a clean transportation accelerator.

June 3, 2020

TMCSuperTech Canceled; Fall Meeting Will Be Virtual

The Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations has canceled its competitions geared toward truck technicians that were scheduled for September.

June 2, 2020