Equipment

eCascadia hauls Team Penske racecar trailer

Team Penske and Freightliner, part of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), on Thursday used the pre-production, fully-electric Freightliner eCascadia semi-truck to pull a full-sized Team Penske racecar hauler to the…

Trail King’s Farris to retire by end of May

Trail King Industries’ Rick Farris, VP of sales and marketing plans to retire by the end of May, starting a leadership transition process, the trailer manufacturer announced Thursday. Rick Farris…

Class 8 orders weak in January due to ‘supply-side shortages’

Class 8 orders in January totaled just 21,300 units, with Classes 5-7 orders dropping to 16,500, according to preliminary data from ACT Research. The industry analyst attributes weak order activity…

Groupe Morneau deploys Canada’s first Volvo VNR Electric in tandem configuration

Volvo Trucks North America’s customer Groupe Morneau took delivery of its first Volvo VNR Electric to operate on freight logistics routes in eastern Canada. The zero-tailpipe emission Class 8 truck…

Natural gas truck sales rise, but focus turning to electric: ACT

Natural gas truck sales in the U.S. and Canada were up 3% through the first 11 months of 2021, according to the Alternative Fuels Quarterly report from ACT Research. “Sales…

Cummins, Isuzu to test battery-electric prototype truck

Cummins and Isuzu are joining forces to build the prototype of a medium-duty battery-electric truck for fleet demonstrations in the coming year. It will be the first zero-emissions offering to…

Path to net zero transportation complex, says Conference Board of Canada

Canada remains far short of its 2050 target for net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite gains already made in the transportation sector. The latest report by the Conference Board of…

Ocean Trailer adds MAC, Beall product lines

Ocean Trailer has added MAC Trailers and its Beall Manufacturing tanker subsidiary to its product line. The dealer will carry MAC’s flatdeck, end dump, transfer, and pneumatic trailer lines but…

Commercial vehicle demand enters 2022 ‘like a lion’: ACT

Demand for commercial vehicles were “materially above expectations” in the first month of 2022, reports ACT Research, and strong fundamentals point to continued high demand. “We start 2022 as 2021…

Platooning Alberta trucks now collecting data

Data collection is now underway in a test of platooning trucks in Alberta, the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) has announced through an online post. The AMTA began a trial…

Stolen Alberta plates must be reported before replacing

Lost or stolen Alberta licence plates will need to be reported to police before replacements will be issued, under a change announced Jan. 18. The missing plates can create challenges…

Trucker invents trailer cleaning system

A longtime trucker has invented what he feels is a better mousetrap, or at least a better way to keep the insides of trailers clean enough to satisfy discriminating food…

Maxim Truck & Trailer wins International dealer awards

Maxim Truck & Trailer has been recognized as top International truck and bus dealer. It won both the International Truck Presidential Award for truck sales, and the IC Bus Diamond…

Test Drive: Kenworth showcases its zero-emissions truck lineup

The Paccar Innovation Center sits in a quiet California neighborhood in the heart of Silicon Valley within a stone’s throw of the some the biggest names in automotive design and…

JB Hunt eyes autonomous truck runs with Waymo Via

JB Hunt plans to bring fully autonomous trucks to Texas roads in the next “few years”, under a strategic alliance with Waymo Via. The alliance – representing Waymo Via’s first…