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Financial
Freight Market Boom Lifts Owner/Operator Earnings
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September 21
Revenue and profits grew for owner-operators in the year...
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Bosch’s Electric Trailer Axle Saves Fuel, Cuts Diesel Emissions
September 20
As the trucking industry focuses on alternative energy for...
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Autonomous Vehicles
ZF Stuffs Its Tech Into Fully Autonomous Delivery Van
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September 20
Automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen aims to improve...
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Daimler Trucks Chief Daum: Trade War Will Have No Winners
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September 20
Daimler's Martin Daum talks about the soaring truck market...
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Electric Vehicles
New Flyer and ZF Building 100 Electric Buses for U.S.
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September 19
Bus manufacturer New Flyer of America will build 100 buses...
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With Proterra Investment, Daimler Pushes Electric Bus Development
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September 19
Daimler Trucks bets heavily on electric bus development by...
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New Trucks
Audi’s E-Tron Electric Crossover Will Challenge Tesla’s Dominance
September 19|New Trucks
Audi’s new E-Tron electric crossover is a viable Tesla challenger with a base price of $76,000 and around 230 miles of range....
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Mercedes-Benz’s New Actros Truck Flaunts Autonomous Technology
September 18|Editor's Picks
Foreshadowing improvements expected in the new Freightliner Cascadia, Daimler Trucks introduced a new Actros truck with autonomous features....
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Ports of L.A., Long Beach are Ground Zero for U.S. Clean Truck Testing
September 18|Editor's Picks
The ports of L.A. and Long Beach compete for business but cooperate on clean air programs and are global leaders in clean truck...
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Electric Vehicles
Toyota, Kenworth and Shell Partner on Port of L.A. Fuel-Cell Project
September 17|Electric Vehicles
he Shore to Store Project will put 10 new zero-emission fuel-cell-electric Class 8 trucks on the road to move cargo between the L.A. port and destinations....
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Financial
Environmental Programs, Green Vehicles Get $2.7 Billion of VW Diesel Money
September 17|Financial
A $2.7 billion environmental mitigation fund is cleaning up the damage from Volkswagen’s excessive diesel emissions scandal....
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Financial
Small Trucking Fleets Grow as Bigger Firms Struggle to Find Drivers
September 14|Financial
The much-publicized driver shortage affects mostly big trucking fleets as growing number of owner-operators pick their routes aided by load-pricing...
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