16 Oct Kenworth Offers Training Videos for T880 Model Kenworth Truck Co. launched a series of training videos for customers operating its flagship T880 vocational model. Read more...
16 Oct The Newest Frontier for Hackers: Your Car As computer technology increasingly controls critical vehicle safety features and more cars are connected to the internet, the danger of a hacker taking control of vehicles is becoming less like a Hollywood movie plot and more like something that can actually happen. Read more...
16 Oct Bridgestone Taps Damien Harmon to Lead GCR Tires & Service Bridgestone Americas Inc. appointed Damien Harmon president of subsidiary GCR Tires & Service, effective Nov. 1. Harmon is chief operating officer of Bridgestone Retail Operations. Read more...
16 Oct Penske Automotive Group Raises Quarterly Dividend Penske Automotive Group Inc. announced an increase in its cash dividend to 33 cents per share for the third quarter. Read more...
16 Oct NAFTA Talks Left Reeling After Aggressive US Proposals Land After laying out the Trump administration’s most aggressive NAFTA demands to date, chief U.S. negotiator John Melle was asked on Oct. 15 how things are progressing. “Fabulous,” he said, smiling and shrugging before entering a negotiating room once more. Read more...
16 Oct Daimler Moves to Separate Mercedes, Trucks to Counter Tech Shift Daimler AG is firming up plans for its biggest corporate overhaul in a decade, granting its cars and trucks operations more independence in a bid to become more nimble and better confront the disruptive shift to self-driving electric vehicles. Read more...
13 Oct September Trailer Orders Improve 76% Year-Over-Year Strength in dry vans pushed U.S. trailer orders in September to near 23,000, up 76% from a year earlier, ACT Research reported. Read more...
13 Oct Opinion: Advocacy Agenda Always Puts Drivers First The 12 months I’ve spent as chairman of American Trucking Associations provided a whirlwind of great experiences and key victories for trucking. They also provided some career highlights. Read more...
13 Oct GM Shows Off Autonomous Cargo Hauling Concept Vehicle General Motors says it “aims to solve some of the toughest transportation challenges created by natural disasters, complex logistics environments and global conflicts” with its new Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure. Read more...
13 Oct Nvidia's Powerful New Computer to Power DHL Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Nvidia Corp. said Oct. 10 it’s helping Deutsche Post AG and its subsidiary DHL automate their fleet of electric delivery vehicles with a powerful new computer. Read more...