Kenworth Adds Cummins B6.7N Natural Gas Engine to Medium-Duty Line

  Kenworth now offers the Cummins B6.7N natural gas engine for new Kenworth T180, T280, and T380 trucks designated for operation in the United States. The Cummins B6.7N is a 100% natural gas engine featuring spark-ignited combustion with cooled EGR and a...

Solo Gets Funding for Ground-Up Driverless Truck Platform for Autonomous Driving

  Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies, a vehicle hardware company, announced $7 million in seed funding to build what it said will be the first ground-up heavy truck platform to be compatible with any autonomous driving software — and it’s electric, too....

Morgan Shows Off New Concept Parcel Van, EV Body Concepts at Work Truck Week

Morgan Truck Body showed off three new truck bodies at Work Truck Week 2022, March 8-11 in Indianapolis, including a full-height walkthrough compact parcel van body, a dry freight cargo body, and a refrigerated concept body, targeting the growth of electric vehicles....

Class 8 Orders Recover in December 2021

North American Class 8 net orders in December 2021 recovered to between 22,800 and 23,100 units, ACT Research and FTR reported, respectively. The December total orders were back in the same range as September and October, following the previous trend of orders being...

November Trailer Orders Hit Year High

  Trailer net orders rebounded in November, as large fleets place orders and original equipment manufacturers began to further solidify their 2022 production plans. Net orders of 31,000 to 32,000 trailers were posted during November, a 78% to 89% increase from...

ATA: Trucking Trends Report Shows Impact of Pandemic on Industry

  The trucking industry moved 10.23 billion tons of freight in 2020, generating $732.3 billion in revenue, according to the latest edition of American Trucking Associations’ American Trucking Trends 2021. “We knew that the pandemic had a significant impact on our...