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Daseke has appointed Chris Easter, former Interim CEO, as permanent CEO. Easter has also become a member of the board of directors for the open-deck-focused trucking company.
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North American Class 8 orders for January are down month over month but up year over year, according to both FTR and ACT Research. Following a consistent trend over the last four months of averages of 19,000 trucks, January totals dropped to 17,700 units. ACT reports show a similar drop in medium-duty.
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Business and trucking interests are criticizing a union-backed labor bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Among other things, the bill would rewrite how independent contractors are defined along the same lines as the controversial new AB5 law in California, which would upend trucking’s longstanding use of owner-operators.
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According to the Intermodal Association of North America's Intermodal Market Trends and Statistics report, total intermodal volumes dropped 7.4% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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ChargePoint and Natso have announced a partnership to create a National Highway Charging Collaborative to extend EV charging across the country.
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Nikola has announced that the Iveco manufacturing facility in Ulm, Germany, will be the production hub for the Nikola Tre electric heavy-duty truck in Europe.
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Scania says new positioning technology leveraging the capabilities of the Galileo global navigation satellite system has achieved accuracy down to centimeter-scale levels for autonomous vehicles, allowing tricky maneuvers like merging.
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The American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association presented their own takes on what trucking needs from Congress during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
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Digital freight broker FreightWeb said its new Partial Truckload freight-matching service fills a “much needed” niche in the freight market – providing an expedited service for shipping partial truckloads of freight.
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The new podcast from Heavy Duty Trucking’s editorial team, HDT Talks Trucking, delves into two hot issues in episodes three and four of its debut season: drug testing of truck drivers, and digging into some of the practical concerns of how carriers can add electric trucks to their fleets.
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