Halton Region blitzes park 44% of inspected trucks

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) continued to crack down on unsafe trucks this week, with a three-day blitz Aug. 19-22 that saw 44% of inspected trucks placed out of…

Brake Safety Week begins Sunday. Are your trucks and drivers prepared?

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is at it again. This week — Aug. 24-30 — is Brake Safety Week in North America. That means truck inspectors will be out…

CADA forms heavy truck division, Glover International’s Bosch to serve as first chairman

The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) has announced the launch of a new division to support heavy truck dealers. The new Canadian Truck Division (CTD) will operate within CADA and…

Power Truck Group to distribute Strick Trailers, Cheetah Chassis equipment in Canada

Power Truck Group has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with trailer and truck equipment manufacturer Strick Trailers and Cheetah Chassis. Strick Trailers has been recognized for its ability to…

Thieves target meat load, equipment in Ontario

Thieves struck in Ontario, stealing a meat load in Windsor, and a truck, trailer and other equipment in Douro-Dummer, a township in the central-eastern part of the province. The Windsor…

Kodiak selects NXP chip technologies for autonomous trucks

Autonomous truck maker Kodiak has decided on the NXP S32G3 vehicle network processor and S32K3 microcontroller and PMIC products to support its driverless vehicles. The company says the NXP suite…

Mack Pioneer enters production

The new Mack Pioneer highway truck is now rolling off the assembly line at the company’s Lehigh Valley Operations (LVO) plant in Macungie, Penn. The facility…

Eaton Cummins partnership manufactures 500,000th Endurant transmission

Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies has produced its 500,000th Endurant transmission. The unit was delivered to Werner, one of the first fleets to adopt the Endurant transmission following its debut…

Yard security upgrades key as thieves grab trucks, trailers and freight

Blink and those shiny trucks and trailers in the yard are gone. Thieves have targeted hundreds of them worth tens of millions of dollars in the Region of Peel –…

Medium-duty electric truck makers Motiv, Workhorse Group to merge

Motiv Electric Trucks and Workhorse Group have agreed to combine operations, creating a single, larger electric medium-duty truck manufacturer. Motiv will tap into Workhorse’s U.S. dealer network while the two…

Fuchs Lubricants Canada opens Cambridge, Ont., facility

Fuchs Lubricants Canada opened its new Eastern Canada warehouse and offices in Cambridge, Ont. The lubrication products supplier’s 50,000 sq.-ft. facility at 100 Allendale Road is 15 km from Fuchs’…

Hyroad Energy wins Nikola auction, founder Milton says he submitted better offer

Hyroad Energy was the successful bidder for 113 hydrogen fuel cell trucks, spare parts, software platforms and IP assets from bankrupt Nikola Corp. EV maker Lucid Motors previously secured the…

ECONOMIC TRUCKING TRENDS: Truck buyers remain cautious, but orders bounced in July

Truck buyers remain cautious about adding new vehicles to their fleets, but preliminary data shows a solid bounce in July compared to June numbers. Still, they remain well off traditional…

PlusAI, Goodyear partner to integrate tire intelligence into autonomous trucks

PlusAI is collaborating with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to explore how Goodyear’s SightLine intelligent tire technology suite can enhance the performance and safety of its SuperDrive autonomous virtual…

Aurora running autonomous trucks at night, launches livestream of driverless trucks

Autonomous truck maker Aurora announced several milestones, including surpassing 20,000 driverless miles (32,000 km), expanding its fleet to three trucks, and commencing driverless operation at night. It also opened a…