Transport Topics

President Joe Biden has announced the nomination of Meera Joshi to serve as the administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Joshi has been serving as the acting administrator of ...

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Darrel Harris was named president of Yellow Corporation yesterday, just six months after joining the Overland Park, Kan., less-than-truckload carrier as executive vice president of strategic initiativ...

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Class 8 truck sales in March jumped 33.7% to 22,031 as all truck makers posted gains compared with a year earlier, according to WardsAuto.com. Freightliner led the way with a gain of nearly 48% to 8,8...

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General Motors and Ford are making deeper production cuts at their North American plants due to the constricting global supply of semiconductors. GM said it has managed steady production at the facili...

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President Joe Biden and his administration are working to bolster public support for their multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal before Congress takes it up for debate. Biden’s plan calls for $...

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The National Transportation Safety Board’s new Most Wanted List of safety concerns contains some familiar recommendations. The current list, adopted by NTSB this week, includes a call for automobile a...

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The North American Council for Freight Efficiency expects vehicle downtime likely to be a factor and something to chart in its Run on Less — Electric event in September. The three-week demonstration, ...

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Preliminary North American Class 8 net orders in March came in at about 40,000 units, according to ACT Research. That figure is 424% higher than the COVID-impacted intake in March 2020. ACT Vice Presi...

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