FONTANA, Calif. – Volvo Trucks will deploy another 70 Class 8 VNR Electric trucks in California, thanks to US$27.1 million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD).Volvo c…
MONTREAL, Que. — In September, The Lion Electric Co. reached an agreement for the delivery of 10 fully-electric Lion6 trucks to the American online retail giant Amazon. Marc Bédard, CEO of Lion, answers Transport Routier editor Steve Bouchard’s questio…
In 2017, after nearly a decade of developing self-driving technology for passenger cars, we launched our trucking and local delivery program now known as Waymo Via. Since then, our autonomous Class 8 trucks have been tested in a wide variety of cities …
A CDLLife App user and truck driver was robbed in Bakersfield, California earlier this week. Now, his fellow CDLLife App members are coming together to help replace what was stolen from him.
“Well I don’t even know what to say,” wrote Jr Guess…
TORONTO, Ont. – Electric trucks, the batteries that power them, and the infrastructure that charges those batteries have been making the news this week.At ACT Virtual Sept. 22, Volvo Trucks and Lion Electric shared details on how charging infrastructur…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – American biodiesel users are sharing their success stories with wraps, decals or other vehicle branding efforts.Newly branded vehicles highlighting biodiesel’s sustainability benefits are rolling along city streets and interstate …
TORONTO, Ont. – Interest in electric vehicles continues to grow, but energy analyst Robert Bryce points to an array of barriers that must be overcome before any widespread rollout – including the way electricity is generated and delivered.“Energy trans…
ALDERGROVE, B.C. – Al Quiring and his team of heavy-tow operators have been rescuing trapped drivers and their vehicles from the treacherous Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia for years.The 52-year-old has built up such a reputation that truckers s…
Horrifying moment semi-truck causes an 11-vehicle crash that killed a father-of-four, 39, on a Sacramento highway
The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday confirmed a deadly car crash on Interstate 5 in Sacramento
A semi-truck cr…
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People in the San Francisco Bay area woke up to apocalyptic scenes on Wednesday as the California wildfires turned the sky a startling blood orange colour.
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Estes Express Lines, a major freight transportation carrier based in Virginia, US, will add 50 new trucks fuelled by Clean Energy Fuels’ Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to its fleet.Estes is acquiring the Class 8 natural gas trucks equipped with th…
Even over the crackling roar of the wildfire surrounding them, Daniel Crouch heard the hum of military helicopters emerging out of the smoky darkness.“The smoke was so thick, you couldn’t see anything — but you could hear the blades of the helicopter,”…
The US already had 6.4million coronavirius cases in APRIL: Study claims there were nine times more cases than reported by the CDC six months ago and today’s true total is still unknown
UC Berkeley researchers estimate that there …
Passenger inside autopilot Tesla breathes huge sigh of relief as car smoothly dodges lane-swerving truck on Vegas highway and averts crash
Tesla’s autonomous self-driving technology managed to avoid an accident
Driver was r…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered a trucking company based in California to rehire an employee who was “terminated for refusing to drive what the employee reasonably believed to be an overweight…