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GXO Logistics announced it is deploying 6 River Systems collaborative robots, also known as cobots, on multiple mezzanine floors in one of its distribution centers in England. GXO said it collaborated...

16 Dec 20213min

Legislation targeting staged vehicle collisions and fraudulent claims affecting the motor carrier industry has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Representatives Henry Cuellar of Texas a...

15 Dec 20213min

Central Freight Lines is ceasing operations after nearly a century in business. The Waco, Texas-based less-than-truckload carrier notified drivers, employees and customers that it would start to wind ...

14 Dec 20213min

Last week, Daimler Truck began trading as an independent company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock symbol DTG, marking a new era following its spinoff from Daimler AG. Shares, traded in ...

13 Dec 20213min

November was not a good month for Class 8 orders. According to ACT Research, orders plunged to 9,800, a 26-year low. Last year, in the month of November there were 52,104 orders. The truck order numbe...

10 Dec 20213min

The flow of freight between the United States and Canada could be slowed beginning in January, as both countries’ governments have laid out vaccine mandates for truck drivers. According to the U.S. D...

9 Dec 20213min

A federal judge in Georgia has blocked the Biden administration’s nationwide mandate for federal contractors’ employees to be vaccinated amid a slew of challenges from states that say the president ov...

8 Dec 20213min

Missed deliveries and driver dissatisfaction are among the headaches fleets endure when the trucks hit the loading docks. In a time when supply chain issues have reached critical mass, trucking and wa...

7 Dec 20213min