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GM Doubles Down On Trucks With $200M Investment In Ontario Assembly Plant
US Postal Service Looks Electric: Here's The Latest Winners In New Round Of Truck Contracts
GM Doubles Down On Trucks With $200M Investment In Ontario Assembly Plant
US Postal Service Looks Electric: Here's The Latest Winners In New Round Of Truck Contracts
Cathie Wood Loads Up $2.8M In This Self-Driving Trucking Company As Shares Plunge 38% In A Week
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Caterpillar, BHP Partner On Zero Emission Mining Trucks: What Investors Should Know
Two $100 billion companies announced a partnership to bring zero-emission mining trucks to the market.
FEMA's Trucks-In-Service Count For Ida Relief: '1,571 And Counting'
On Tuesday at about 11 a.m. Eastern time, the Federal Emergency Management Association responded to a query from FreightWaves sent a day earlier: How many trucks is FEMA operating as part of its relief efforts for Hurricane Ida? The response: "1,571 and counting."
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ACT Expo: Peterbilt's Math Lesson And Volvo's Big Day
A reporter's notebook from the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, California Like coins dropped into a jar at the end of the day, the number of heavy-duty electric trucks continues to grow by nickels, dimes, and quarters. But measuring success requires more than counting up pocket change.
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Ideanomics Acquires EV Maker VIA Motors In Deal Worth As Much As $630M
Electric commercial vehicle maker VIA Motors is being acquired by Ideanomics in a deal that values the company at $450 million.
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Port Of Oakland Tests Drayage With Class 8 Peterbilt Electric Trucks
Ten Class 8 Peterbilt Model 579EVs running drayage in the Port of Oakland illustrate two facts of heavy-duty electrification: Class 8 Battery-electric trucks are for real. They only work where infrastructure is in place to charge them. Shippers Transport Express (STE) has both working for it in a three-month demonstration. 
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Werner: Exemption Will Get Drivers Employed Faster Amid 'Historic Driver Shortage'
Werner Enterprises is banking on a commercial learner's permit (CPL) exemption not only to boost operational productivity but to help the company get its drivers employed faster.
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Workhorse Reviews Electric Van Designs, Distances Itself From Lordstown Motors
Workhorse Group delivered 14 electric delivery vans to customers in the second quarter but it is going back to the drawing board to figure out how to add more cargo capacity before it resumes ramping up production.
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Milton's Sell-Off: Indicted Nikola Founder Dumps 7M Shares, Transfers 600,000 Others
Indicted Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton sold 7 million of his 79 million shares in the electric truck startup last week, pulling in $71.5 million that he may need for his legal fight against federal fraud charges.
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Nikola Moves On From Trevor Milton To Tackle Supply Chain Shortages
Nikola Corp. is unlikely to sell any battery-electric trucks this year because of semiconductor shortages for critical components, but it will let select customers and dealers use the trucks to build mileage and get retrofits later.
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Drilling Deep: It's Time For The Big Spinoff At XPO
It's been a long time coming, but the market is on the verge of XPO (NYSE: XPO) spinning off its contract logistics business into GXO.
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Partisan PRO Act Gets Pushback
On July 22, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing entitled, "The Right to Organize: Empowering American Workers in a 21st Century Economy." This hearing centered around the
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Trouble For Trevor Milton ー Freightonomics
Trevor Milton, founder and former chairman of Nikola Corp., was handed down three federal fraud charges Thursday morning for his alleged involvement in misleading investors and retailers about Nikola's true equipment capabilities. 
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Schneider Easily Beats Q2 Estimates, Raises 2021 Outlook
Ongoing strong demand for freight helped Schneider National report second-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 60 cents, 16 cents ahead of analysts' expectations and 34 cents better than the prior-year result.
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Racing Towards The World's First Electric Pickup
On Friday, Rivian revealed it closed a $2.5 billion funding round, led by existing investors Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), and T.
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Minneapolis Goes Ahead And Enacts Sweeping Truck Parking Restrictions
After looking like it might back away from what amounted to a ban on truck parking on the streets of Minneapolis, the city's legislative body last week went ahead and did just that for bigger vehicles.
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Exclusive First Ride: Plus Autonomous Truck Is A Gentle Giant On The Highway
CUPERTINO, Calif. — So what is it like when a robot is doing the driving of a fully-loaded Class 8 heavy-duty truck? Really smooth. Really well mannered. And the sense that surrounding traffic is oblivious to the likely future of trucking, at least of this hourlong ride on several northern California freeways on a sunny afternoon in early July.
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Volvo Group Posts Solid Q2 Results Despite Losing Month Of Production
Volvo Group lost about a month of truck production in Q2 because of the semiconductor shortage. But it still posted solid results as orders and deliveries soared compared with the pandemic-impacted year-ago quarter.
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Heartland Express: Q2 In Line Despite Revenue Weakness
North Liberty, Iowa-based truckload carrier Heartland Express reported an 8.1% year-over-year decline in second-quarter revenue (excluding fuel) Monday. Earnings per share were in line with analysts' expectations at 26 cents.
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TuSimple's Take On Drivers In Autonomous Trucking World — Taking The Hire Road
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PACCAR, Volvo Invest In Self-Driving Tech Company Aurora's $10.6B SPAC
PACCAR Inc. and Volvo Group are among investors in a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that plans to bring self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation public at a $10.6 billion enterprise valuation, the second-highest of four startups seeking to trade on public markets.
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AEV Summit: Cummins Finds Success In Zero-Carbon Mindset
This keynote recap is from FreightWaves' Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit on Wednesday. KEYNOTE TOPIC: Covering all bets in future propulsion
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The Daily Dash: Don't Ignore Autonomous Truck Crashes
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what's happening in the freight ecosystem. In today's edition, we highlight the need for full disclosure on autonomous truck crashes, new entry-level driver training requirements and more.
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Analyst: Departure Of Tesla Trucking Head Is Good News For Legacy Truck Makers
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced on Monday its latest in a long line of executive departures, and one analyst said it could be good news for legacy truck makers.