Transport Topics

The spot market has been declining, but with rates and volumes still above historic norms it’s unclear where it will stabilize. Ben Cubitt, senior vice president of consulting at Transplace, says rate...

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American Trucking Associations in a 29-page written comment on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reduce nitrogen oxides said it generally supports the goal. However, the federation ...

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Classes 4-7 retail truck sales dropped 15.4% in April compared with a year earlier, according to industry analyst Wards Intelligence. Total sales were 16,439 compared with 19,431 in the 2021 period. T...

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Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the most in 16 years as Americans returned to the highways after the pandemic forced many to stay at home. The 10.5% jump over 2020 numbers w...

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Six months after President Biden signed the $1 trillion infrastructure package, the government says there are 4,300 projects underway with more than $110 billion in funding announced. Of that $110 bil...

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Ryder System Inc. has received an offer from HG Vora Capital Management to buy the trucking company for about $4.4 billion. HG Vora, a hedge fund that has a 9.9% stake in Ryder, offered $86 in cash fo...

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Class 8 retail truck sales in April were flat compared with a year earlier, coming in at just over 19,000 but continuing to improve from the lows seen at the beginning of the year, Wards Intelligence ...

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Autonomous driving technology company Aurora Innovation will collaborate with Covenant Logistics to refine a self-driving truck system that could robotically emulate the speed of human team driving. C...

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