New Alberta test track part of a broader vision

EDMONTON, Alta. – One of the newest and largest training facilities for Canada’s trucking industry features a few tools that none of the others have. Edmonton’s five-acre test track and truck simulator are rare enough, but they also happen to share space with simulators for training on a 737 or helicopter.

Nikola wants to disrupt your truck payments by including fuel costs

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – There’s water, water everywhere, but little of it is being transformed into fuel. Nikola Motor wants to change that – as well as the way fleets pay for trucks and their fuel.

Forestry sector’s truckers face growing challenges

MONTREAL, Que. – Canada’s forestry sector is worth an estimated $20 billion a year, but those who haul logs from the forest to sawmill are experiencing the weight of factors from wildfires to lumber tariffs.

Climate change leads to new approaches for ice roads

WINNIPEG, Man. -- The Canada's Changing Climate Report is sounding the alarm about global warming in Canada. Those who build and maintain the ice roads used to truck loads into the far north are already feeling the effects.

Charging and maintaining electric trucks will be no small task

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Any fleet that wants to introduce more than a handful of electric trucks will need to do some big thinking around big chargers, big cables, and the big investments for charging and maintenance capabilities.

Exploring the path to electric trucks

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – There are plenty of barriers to the widespread adoption of electric trucks. Battery prices, weights, and limited ranges are just three of them. But Michael Berube, one of the presenters at this year’s Green Truck Summit, sees plenty of promise in such trucks to support evolving delivery models.

UPS looks to paint brown trucks green

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Carleton Rose of UPS says electric trucks are the "way of the future". But they aren't perfect. Not yet.

The race to develop electric trucks is on

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Established and emerging manufacturers alike are racing to bring some form of battery-electric vehicles or fuel cells to North America, with several introducing all-important test fleets during 2019.

The electric trucks hitting the streets

TORONTO, Ont. – A growing array of battery-electric and hydrogen-electric truck prototypes are beginning to haul freight, mostly in test fleets that will emerge around California in the year to come. Here’s a rundown of some of the trucks looking to make their mark.

Kenworth, Toyota join to develop trucks with fuel cells

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Kenworth and Toyota are joining forces to develop a test fleet of 10 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, building on research that both had been conducting independently.

Updated: Humboldt driver pleads guilty in crash, intersection to be upgraded

REGINA, Sask. – There will be no prolonged trial for the truck driver involved in the fatal crash with a bus carrying members of the Humboldt Broncos. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu has pled guilty to all charges against him – 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death, and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

Daimler eyes electric truck production in 2021

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Daimler Trucks North America has handed over keys for the first in a series of 30 battery-electric trucks – a mixture of eCascadias and eM2s – and it’s already focusing on plans to begin full production in 2021.

Ports leveraging data, operating hours to combat delays

TORONTO, Ont. -- Efforts to ease congestion at Canada’s ports are often anchored in physical changes. But another layer of recent upgrades -- involving everything from shared data to extended gate hours – has also been introduced to keep intermodal containers rolling.

Stay right, chain up, slow down in B.C.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- Bad weather has been known to wreak havoc on B.C. Coquihalla Highway’s Snowshed Hill, but the province hopes to keep traffic flowing with the help of a pilot project than bans hill-climbing trucks from the left lane between Box Canyon and Zopkios. And that’s only one change among a series of recent measures to improve highway safety throughout B.C.’s mountainous interior.

Spear goes on offensive in ATA address

AUSTIN, Texas – American Trucking Associations president and CEO Chris Spear went on the offensive during his annual state of the industry address today, calling for changes to everything from minimum driving ages to new drug testing tools and a massive infrastructure investment.