Road Ready Rebrands as Saegic, Ships Trailer Gateway With PSI Tire Monitoring
New gateway integrates PSI TireView Live and ThermAlert wheel-end monitoring. Brake health sensors planned for 2027.
Hank Rivers
Equipment, OEM & Electric Vehicles
Hank Rivers covers truck hardware, tractors, trailers, engines, drivetrains, emissions aftertreatment, battery-electric and hydrogen trucks, charging infrastructure, telematics hardware, ADAS, tires, APUs, recalls, and the maintenance economics that decide what a fleet actually spends per mile. Former fleet manager. He treats OEM press releases like used-truck listings until proven otherwise.
Tesla Semi wins 2,500-truck order in largest U.S. electric fleet deal
Shipper alliance Z-Scale pools demand from PepsiCo, Microsoft, IKEA, and Red Bull to break EV pricing deadlock. First 2,500 units deploy in 18 months across 10…
Used Class 8 retail price hits $64,007 in September, up 11.5% YoY
Average retail price climbed to $64,007 from $57,383 a year earlier, though September marked a 1.9% dip from August's $65,234.
Trailer Leasing Utilization Tops Pandemic Peak as Supply Contracts
Premier Trailer Leasing reports highest utilization ever recorded. Demand for 10-year-old and newer units driven by carrier exits and three years of…
Kodiak Signs 75-Truck Driverless Deal With DTL, IKEA as First Shipper
Interstate carrier DTL will operate Kodiak autonomous tractors under driver-as-a-service model on Texas and Atlanta lanes starting with IKEA freight.
DTL Transport to run 75 Kodiak autonomous trucks on Dallas-El Paso, Dallas-Atlanta lanes
Fresno carrier signs binding agreement for Kodiak Driver-as-a-Service on two interstate routes already tested with safety drivers. No driverless launch date…
What does it cost to build a trucking audience worth 5 billion views?
Larry Cothran posted one video a day for three years without missing once. The view count is enormous. The harder lesson was learning what that work is worth.
Paccar Suppliers Miss Q3 Delivery Targets as Truck Orders Climb
CEO Preston Feight says component vendors couldn't scale output fast enough to match rising demand, creating delivery delays for Kenworth and Peterbilt orders.
Mexico Truckers Halt Strike After Feds Agree to Security Talks
CANACAR, HAMOTAC, and FEMATRAC secured four negotiating sessions on cargo theft, highway violence, and operating costs after demonstrations hit 19 states…
Pilot and Tesla open first two heavy-duty truck charging sites
Travel centers in Georgia and California now offer Tesla Megacharger stalls for Class 8 EVs, marking the first public charging infrastructure built for…
Oregon Port Wins $205M Rail Grant for Proposed Container Terminal
Federal funding will rebuild 111-mile Coos Bay rail line to support a $2 billion deepwater container terminal competing with Seattle and Tacoma.
Paccar ships 13- and 15-inch digital displays standard in 2027 trucks
Peterbilt gets 13-inch portrait screens, Kenworth gets 15-inch landscape. Both run Paccar Connect platform with voice commands and app integrations.