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Every aspect of the next-generation Freightliner Cascadia unveiled Sept. 1 “has been re-imagined,” said Richard Howard, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Daimler Trucks North America. It’s a "completely brand new truck"... not Cascadia 2.0.
Read More →Relatively simple modifications to heavy truck aerodynamics could provide a welcome decrease in fuel costs for the average over-the-road truck, according to research by Volvo Trucks North America.
Read More →The North American Council for Freight Efficiency has released the results of its first fleet fuel efficiency study, representing 75,000 OTR tractors and 130,000 53-ft trailers from eight fleets
Read More →Cummins brings together every phase of the hydrogen energy cycle, from production using electrolyzers, to onboard mobile and stationary storage tanks and the fuel cells that power electric trucks, buses and trains.
Read More →After the ups and downs of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, economic and industry numbers indicate that the industry is slowly getting “back to normal,” Bob Costello, American Trucking Associations chief economist, told attendees at ATA’s management conference in Nashville.
Read More →An easily-missed announcement of a joint development program between Cummins and a start-up, VanDyne SuperTurbo, points the way to a future technology that could result in as much as 7 percent fuel savings for heavy trucks
Read More →There were 20,200 Class 8 truck orders in August, beating projections from earlier in the month but well below last year’s numbers, according to ACT Research.
Read More →A panel of economic experts said while economic growth will still be too slow to make a dent in unemployment numbers, they don't see the United States sliding into a double-dip recession - and trucking can outperform the macro economy, especially if manufacturing continues to grow as it has been
Read More →To help us pick the top trucking-related stories of the year, we looked at what we covered, what articles were the most-viewed on Truckinginfo.com, and the top concerns of the industry as ranked by an annual industry survey
Read More →The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1 percent in August, a disappointing number that closes out an erratic summer in the PCI. The decline indicates an economy that is struggling to move forward, following July's increase of 1.7 percent and June's drop of 1.9 percent
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