22 Jul Apple Continues to Stockpile Former Tesla Engineers Apple Inc. has hired Steve MacManus, at least the third Tesla Inc. engineering executive to join the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology giant in the past year. Read more...
22 Jul Millions of Barrels of Iran Oil Are Sitting in China’s Ports Tankers are offloading millions of barrels of Iranian oil into storage tanks at Chinese ports, creating a hoard of crude sitting on the doorstep of the world’s biggest buyer. Read more...
22 Jul Alliance Parts Expands Offerings, Retail Footprint Alliance Parts, a unit of Daimler Trucks North America, announced it expanded its parts portfolio and increased its retail footprint with the goal of delivering parts in 24 hours or less. Read more...
22 Jul Airgas Expands in Stockton, Calif., With New CO2 Plant Airgas, an Air Liquide company and a U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, opened its new liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice facility in Stockton, Calif., on July 16. Read more...
22 Jul Heritage Foundation Endorses Devolution to Fund Highway Projects The Heritage Foundation says Congress should devolve the federal government's functions to state agencies and immediately end all subsides for state roads. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
22 Jul Papé Kenworth Northwest Adds Washington Location Papé Kenworth Northwest announced it opened a 6,600-square-foot parts and service facility in Bellingham, Wash. Read more...
22 Jul China Considers Plan to Boost Purchases of US Soybeans The Chinese government is in discussions with state and privately owned soybean buyers over a plan to raise purchases of U.S. supplies, according to people familiar with the situation. Read more...
22 Jul Amazon Hub to Net Estimated $111.7 Million for Florida City The first question city officials were asked when news broke that Amazon was building an air cargo complex in Lakeland was how would the project benefit area residents. The calculations are in. Read more...
22 Jul Microsoft to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI Microsoft Corp. agreed to invest $1 billion in a partnership with research group OpenAI, gaining a prominent cloud-computing customer from the artificial intelligence field. Read more...
22 Jul Volvo Recalls 500,000 Vehicles Due to Faulty Engine Part Volvo Cars is recalling about half a million cars worldwide because of a faulty engine component that may in extreme cases cause a vehicle to catch fire. Read more...