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The price of Brent crude, the international standard, rose back toward $102 per barrel and is well above its roughly $70 price from before the war.

At a time when margins are tight and operating costs continue to climb, preventing and managing driver injuries has become a core business priority.

The Swift Beef plant in Greeley, Colo., will immediately return to normal operations after weeks of uncertainty, JBS said in a statement.

The 10% Section 122 tariffs, which replaced the IEEPA tariffs that the Supreme Court dismissed, are scheduled to expire July 24.

Consumer prices rose 3.3% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said April 10. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.9% in March from February.

The challenges risk affecting a wider swath of the industry as the Trump administration weighs how to create a more formal approach for chip export control.

Effective driver safety and injury prevention programs begin with recognizing the scope of the problem. That can be a problem for small to midsize carriers.

Slate wants to tap consumer demand for more affordable vehicles with a stripped-down, two-seater pickup that can go 150 or 240 miles on a single charge. 

The proposed 4.8% price hike will be reviewed by the Postal Regulatory Commission, an oversight body, and if approved, will go into effect July 12.

Daimler truck with Torc Robotics tech

The North American figures dragged down the worldwide total for parent company Daimler Truck even as European sales increased, the company said.

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Class 8 Orders Surge More Than 100% for Second Straight Month

ACT Research preliminary data showed orders jumped 126% from the prior year to 37,200. Sequentially, orders fell 19.5% from 46,200.

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Perspective: How True AI Changes the Cost of TMS Training

Natural-language interfaces such as ChatGPT dramatically drop training time for new employees learning a TMS, writes TruckMaster Logistics Systems' Julie Dodson.

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