Industry News

Grech Motors L.L.C. (Grech) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 G40M2 shuttle buses built on Freightliner M2 truck chassis, manufactured August 26, 2013, to December 10, 2014.

PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain model year 2015 Peterbilt 389 Pride and Class edition vehicles manufactured October 1, 2014, to December 4, 2014, and equipped with electronic stability control (ESC)

The massive recall on Takata airbags that affects nearly 34 million vehicles worldwide likely impacts some Freightliner and Western Star models, according to the company’s recall notice.

BAM Worldwide announced the availability of a specialty asset-based lending platform for motor carriers called BAMwire, which is already being utilized by the freight brokerage and logistics industry.

West Coast dockworkers and port employers have ratifiedthe five-year contract tentatively reached in February following nine months of negotiations.

As safety systems become more prevalent, so too do pressures on fleets to actively manage them. Learning to manage systems, as well as convince drivers to buy into new safety systems can be challenging — but the rewards are incalculable.

As OEMs and suppliers continue a rapid pace of new technology adoption into tractors, these truly are exciting times in the trucking industry.  Perhaps the excitement was never more palpable than last month, when Daimler Trucks

Echoing trucking industry concerns since the program’s inception in 2010, one of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator’s top officials this week said the agency knows that penalizing carriers for crashes that were not their fault is “not fair†to carriers or the trucking industry as a whole

The U.S. House’s Appropriations Committee this week passed 30-21 a 2016 DOT funding bill that would, if passed keep in place the current hours-of-service suspension until the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can justify the HOS rule