Traffic-weary voters overwhelmingly passed measures to fund road and highway repairs and construction, according to an analysis of 2016 election returns. Some 69 percent of 280 transportation funding ballot measures up for vote in 34 states Tuesday were approved, according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center. Click here to […]

Most American pickup trucks are rugged, multi-tasking, powerful. Cincinnati-based Workhorse Group Inc. wants to add electric to that list. The manufacturer, known for its battery-electric delivery vehicles and aerial drones, said Monday that it will begin developing full-size plug-in electric pickup trucks to deliver in 2018 for fleet use. Click here to continue reading the […]

In a bid to recapture market share lost in recent years, Navistar International Corp. launched its new line of International LT over-the-road trucks Friday at an industry conference in Las Vegas. The Lisle, Ill., truck manufacturer said the new vehicle, which it expects to become its flagship, will offer a series of improvements over its […]

Since it opened in 1938, Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Warren, Mich. has produced about 13 million trucks, including 329,930 Ram 1500 pickup trucks last year. This time-lapse video shows how the factory’s 4,500 employees and 535 robots work together to build the trucks. Click here to continue reading the full article […]

Giant side-view mirrors, accelerators and brake pedals – there’s a lot of equipment on semi-trucks that’s rapidly becoming obsolete, according to Martin Daum, chief executive of Daimler Trucks North America. Daum sat down with Trucks.com at the unveiling of the manufacturer’s 2018 Freightliner Cascadia semi-truck last week and described how he expects trucks to change […]