Economic Trucking Trends: Spot market rates, freight fundamentals improving

We begin 2024 with mostly good news. While December marked a softening of Canadian spot market freight volumes, in the U.S. spot market rates are rising and closing the gap…

Stars aligning for a busy year in M&A: Tenney Group

Rapidly deteriorating market conditions last year put the brakes on many mergers and acquisitions, but valuations are normalizing, paving the way for more activity this year. Speaking on a Truckload…

CNTL reaches tentative agreement with owner-ops

CN has reached a deal with its CNTL drivers represented by Unifor. CNTL provides first- and last-mile container trucking deliveries for the railway. The tentative four-year agreement covers about 750…

Cummins, Paccar and Daimler choose Mississippi for battery cell plant

The battery cell production collaboration between Accelera by Cummins, Daimler Truck and Paccar, will produce their batteries in Mississippi. The joint venture will create more than 2,000 manufacturing jobs there,…

Nikola adopts ZF driver assistance systems

ZF’s OnGuardMax and OnSideAlert driver assistance systems are now offered on Nikola’s hydrogen fuel-cell-electric trucks. OnGuardMax detects and reacts to moving and stationary objects, while OnSideAlert provides blind spot…

Endurant XD available on International trucks

International Trucks now offers the Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technology Endurant XD Series transmission on select models. The Endurant XD and Endurant XD Pro paired with…

Truckstop adds security features

Truckstop has taken further steps to prevent fraud on its load board. Identify verification is now available to help brokers identify carriers via RMIS. It involves…

VMC lands another Ontario dealer

Vicinity Motor Corp. has inked a deal with another Toronto-area distributor, Peninsula VMC Truck Centre. The newly launched dealership will be headed by industry executive Kelly Jennings, the electric truck…

Mullen Group signs LOI to acquire ContainerWorld

Mullen Group has announced its intent to purchase Richmond, B.C.-based ContainerWorld Forwarding Services. Mullen has signed a letter of intent and has initiated due diligence to purchase the company, which…

Eaton offering remanufactured Advantage series clutch

Eaton has added the Advantage series clutch to its line of remanufactured products. The clutch offers a unique strap drive intermediate plate design and comes at a lower price…

Meet the most widely ridiculed company in trucking

Chohan Freight Forwarders has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the most disliked and widely ridiculed trucking companies in all of Canada. This is an achievement not to…

Decarbonizing trucking begins with today’s diesel and natural gas engines

Mike Roeth doesn’t want to hear that the trucking industry will need to transition en masse and immediately to electric and hydrogen-fueled powertrains if the industry wants to decarbonize. “That’s…

Economic Trucking Trends: Slowing Class 8 sales could cause OEs to curtail production

The first half of January 2024 is nearly in the books, and with it comes news that shippers are loving life thanks to lower fuel costs and other improving metrics…

‘Stagnant’ trucking market expected in 2024: FTR

Steady consumer spending habits and falling diesel prices could prolong a capacity surplus affecting the trucking industry well into 2024. Speaking during a State of Freight webinar by FTR, Avery…

Quantron partners with FusionOne for hydrogen from recycled plastics

Hydrogen fuel-cell-electric truck maker Quantron has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with FusionOne that will see them produce hydrogen from recycled plastic to fuel Quantron’s trucks. FusionOne joined Quantron’s Clean…