Tagged: HDTrucks

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Chips Still Hindering Truck Plants

Lack of chips still hindering truck plants. Semiconductor shortages are still interfering with efforts by truck manufacturers to produce enough trucks to fulfill customer order commitments – and truck makers may not be able to meet…

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Benore Studying Electric Trucks

For most truckload carriers operating outside of California, the potential of battery-electric, heavy-duty trucks is theoretical. Benore studying electric trucks and gathering data to see how it can turn EV operations into reality in the Southeast.

Navistar Opens Used-Truck Center

Navistar Opens Used-Truck Center

Navistar has opened a new used-truck center in Joliet to replace the center’s previous location in Melrose Park. The Joliet location, close to Chicago, is home to a calibration engineering facility, eight service bays and…

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Werner Adding Cummins Engines

Werner adding Cummins engines in the second half of this year, Werner Enterprises will begin validation and integration of Cummins’ 15-liter natural gas and 15-liter hydrogen internal combustion engines in its heavy-duty trucks.

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Rush Acquires Summit Truck Group

New Braunfels, Texas-based Rush Enterprises, which operates the largest network of commercial vehicle dealerships in North America, has become even larger. Rush announced it has acquired 16 locations from Summit Truck Group, one of the…

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Daimler Issues Recall on Western Star Trucks

Daimler Trucks North America is recalling about 21 model year 2021-2022 Western Star 4900 trucks for a potential steering issue, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration documents. In the affected trucks , the steering shaft pinch bolt…

Nikola To Build Fuel-Cell Stations

Nikola To Build Fuel-Cell Stations

Nikola Corp. will partner with TravelCenters of America to build two hydrogen fueling stations for fuel cell trucks in California. It is Nikola’s second hydrogen infrastructure deal in a week. During the drama last fall…

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Teamsters Fighting Speed Limiters

The Teamsters union is fighting a move by TFI International’s TForce Freight to cut the maximum speed of trucks from 68 miles per hour to 65. The union’s national negotiating committee for TForce quietly filed…

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Daimler Issues Recall

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is recalling certain Freightliner Cascadia trucks due to an insufficiently tightened drag link taper joint. If the joint becomes loose, it can result in the gradual separation of the drag…

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