Category: Cab, Trailer & Body

2023-Ending Data Suggest Moderating Trailer Activity in 2024

2023-Ending Data Suggest Moderating Trailer Activity in 2024

| February 12, 2024

ACT Research reports December net orders, at 24,300 units, were nearly 58% lower y/y, but 3,300 units more than were booked in November With freight markets continuing their bounce along the bottom, carrier profits at a low ebb, and pent-up demand exhausted, the 2024 game plan is more about hoping and coping than full steam […]

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Landstar Breaks Ground on New Facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana

Landstar Breaks Ground on New Facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana

| January 22, 2024

The center is being built on a 14-acre site west of Interstate 74 in Crawfordsville with Landstar’s nearly 10,000 independent leased owner-operators in mind Landstar System, Inc. announced the groundbreaking of its new field operations center in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The center is being built on a 14-acre site west of Interstate 74 in Crawfordsville with […]

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Blue Bird Receives Record Order of 180 Electric School Buses

Blue Bird Receives Record Order of 180 Electric School Buses

| January 22, 2024

Los Angeles Unified School District Places Largest Order of EV Buses in Blue Bird History to Help District Shift to Zero-Emission Student Transportation Blue Bird Corporation (Nasdaq: BLBD), the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, has received the single largest order of electric school buses from a school district in its history. Los Angeles […]

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Estes Adds Electric Trucks to its California Fleet

Estes Adds Electric Trucks to its California Fleet

| January 19, 2024

The company’s Banning, California, terminal has incorporated 12 EV trucks to its pickup-and-delivery offerings Estes, the largest, privately owned freight carrier in North America, has added its first zero-emission electric Class 8 tractors to its nationwide fleet. The battery-operated trucks will service some of the company’s West Coast operations through its terminal in Banning, California. […]

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ClearFlame Engine Technologies Sells First Truck to Vander Haag’s Inc.

ClearFlame Engine Technologies Sells First Truck to Vander Haag’s Inc.

| January 18, 2024

Technology maintains diesel-like performance while delivering cost savings and lower carbon emissions for heavy-duty industry ClearFlame Engine Technologies has completed the first sale of its FuelAdaptive™ truck to Vander Haag’s Inc. The truck is the world’s first product to deliver diesel-like performance to the heavy-duty trucking industry with a reduction in fuel costs and carbon emissions using […]

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TuSimple Announces Intention to Delist from Nasdaq

TuSimple Announces Intention to Delist from Nasdaq

| January 18, 2024

 Since TuSimple’s initial public offering in 2021, there has been a significant shift in capital markets, due in part to rising interest rates and quantitative tightening, that has changed investor sentiment TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP) (the “Company”) announced its decision to voluntarily delist the Company’s common stock from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) and to […]

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