Jerry Hirsch is Editor and Vice President of Content of Trucks.com. Prior to joining Trucks.com, Hirsch was nationally known as the automotive writer for the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, the Toronto Star, Consumers Digest and many other publications. He can be found on Twitter: @JerryHirsch.
Franchise contracts and state rules governing auto sales saddle traditional automakers with rules that put them at a disadvantage to new car companies like Tesla.
Waymo is testing self-driving trucks in California, Georgia, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and sees a wide variety of applications for commercial vehicles.