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Newsby Deborah LockridgeAugust 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks North America ‘Not Standing Still’ on Electric Trucks

The COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly affected Daimler Trucks North America’s work on medium- and heavy-duty battery-electric trucks, and despite production shutdowns due to the pandemic, the company is back to building vehicles at the same rate it was before the pandemic hit.

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Newsby StaffAugust 11, 2020

J.B. Hunt Makes First All-Electric Delivery with eCascadia

J.B. Hunt Transport Services recently completed its first delivery using the Freightliner eCascadia all-electric Class 8 truck.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeAugust 4, 2020

DTNA's New Engineering Chief on Autonomous Tech, Electric Trucks and More

When Rainer Müller-Finkeldei started working on artificial intelligence at Daimler in 1995, few people knew what AI was or had heard of neural networks. Now he’s in the thick of autonomous truck development and more as the new senior vice president of engineering and technology at Daimler Trucks North America.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2020

Freightliner Logs 300,000 Battery-Electric Miles

Freightliner’s Innovation Fleet recently accumulated more than 300,000 miles in real-world use by customers.

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Newsby StaffJuly 23, 2020

Penske, EnerSys Deploy More Battery Electric Trucks

Penske Truck Leasing's electric vehicle program continues to roll out battery electric Freightliner eM2s into service, this time to EnerSys, which will use the new truck throughout Southern California.

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Newsby StaffJune 5, 2020

DTNA Restarting All Manufacturing Operations

Daimler Trucks North America is beginning to reopen all nine of its manufacturing locations in North America following a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Newsby StaffMay 22, 2020

Daimler Truck Financial Finance Program to 'Keep the World Moving'

Named to pay homage to the OEM’s global purpose and designed for the drivers and commercial vehicle operators supporting critical infrastructure, Daimler Truck Financial and Daimler Trucks North America Keep the World Moving program offers flexibility when purchasing new Freightliner and Western Star trucks.

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Locking It Inby Rolf LockwoodMay 19, 2020

Daimler, Volvo Venture a Breakthrough for Hydrogen Trucks

Rolf Lockwood thinks a significant corner has been turned in the quest to bring hydrogen to the highway in heavy trucks. Read more in his Locking it In blog.

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Newsby StaffMay 18, 2020

DTNA Launches New Online Parts Ordering Service

Daimler Trucks North America recently launched Excelerator, an e-commerce platform that was designed with input from more than 40 dealer partners.

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Newsby StaffMay 14, 2020

DTNA Service Enhancements to Further 24-Hour Downtime Goal

Daimler Trucks North America said its recent and upcoming rollouts of Techlane, Service Pre-Authorization, and TechAssist will help dealers meet its goal of 24-hour maximum repair turnaround time.

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