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Electrifying in-bound logistics continues to expand globally

Volvo Trucks North America started using zero-emission electric trucks for in-bound logistics in 2021. It told fleets that to qualify to bring parts to Volvo plants, they would need VNR Electric trucks.

Freight forwarders complied. Watsontown Trucking Co. and Camrett Logistics ordered Class 8 VNR Electric trucks in October 2021. They began round trips to NRV in December of that year. Ryder System Inc. likewise leased seven VNR Electric trucks to transport pallets of components for heavy-duty...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electrifying-in-bound-logistics-continues-to-expand-globally

IAA 2024: Daum’s legacy – a stand-alone Daimler Truck

The Sept. 4 news release announcing Martin Daum’s successor as Chair and CEO of Daimler Truck didn’t precisely say the legendary trucking industry executive was retiring.

This week at the IAA Transportation truck exhibition, Daum definitively answered the question. He’s done at the end of the year.

The Sept. 4 news release announcing Martin Daum’s successor as Chair and CEO of Daimler Truck didn’t precisely say the legendary trucking industry executive was retiring.

This week at the IAA...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/iaa-2024-daums-legacy-a-stand-alone-daimler-truck

An inconvenient truth about electric trucks

A few days in Germany revealed an inconvenient truth about real-world applications of battery-electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. Inadequate infrastructure, a lack of drivers and traffic congestion will frustrate meaningful expansion for sometime to come.

Jolt of electric truck reality 

A visit to the aging DB Schenker freight distribution center outside Frankfurt, Germany, injected a jolt of reality about electric trucks. The near giddiness surrounding the reveal of battery-electric and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-tech-deutschland-dispatches-edition

Truck Talk: Tuning up the volume edition

This week, we talk with retiring Daimler Trucks North America CEO Roger Nielsen about hosting a generation of big name music acts; follow electric school buses in Maryland and LA; and check in on the semiconductor chip shortage. You can subscribe to Truck Talk and other FreightWaves newsletters here.

Listen to the music

Outgoing Daimler Truck North America CEO Roger Nielsen offered thoughts on a range of industry issues as he prepares to retire in April after 35 years. One thing that continues...

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Peterbilt offers teaser lease on medium-duty electric truck

Peterbilt is offering a discount on the first year of a six-year lease on its Model 220EV medium-duty battery-electric truck. It hopes to lure drivers without a commercial license to try running on electricity instead of diesel fuel.

Regional and state grants for battery-electric vehicles can be stacked with the introductory lease through PACCAR Inc.’s (NASDAQ: PCAR) PacLease subsidiary.

Neither a Peterbilt spokesperson nor a dealer in Michigan contacted by FreightWaves had pricing information....

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Mitsubishi Fuso ending truck sales in US and Canada

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America (MFTA) will stop selling Class 4-5 medium-duty trucks in the U.S. and Canada when it runs out of inventory, but it will continue providing parts and service for customers through at least 2028.

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. (MFTBC), which manufactures commercial vehicles in Asia,, announced the move Wednesday after making the decision on Tuesday. MFTBC is a brand of Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler Trucks.

“The decision itself was sudden,” Bryan Allen, MFTA...

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