Truck News

Branden Coté, a former executive at AutoNation, will take over the marquee Jeep division Aug. 3. Matt VanDyke, a former Ford executive, will lead the Ram truck brand. 

Ford said the new money for the Essex plant will support the manufacturing of even larger engines. Many of those parts are shipped to Ford’s U.S. assembly plants. 

The deal, expected to close in the late third quarter, expands Magnolia's presence in the Eagle Ford Shale basin of south Texas.

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The number of Chinese truck companies operating in Mexico has surged, creating fresh tension as Mexican negotiators seek relief from U.S. tariffs.

The attacks on vessels controlled by Dynacom will unnerve the industry and underline just how perilous the crossing has become since the recent escalation of violence on both sides.

Fuels have spiked faster than crude since the U.S.-Iran war caused the oil market’s biggest supply disruption. The “real bottleneck” is in refining, Morgan Stanley said in a note. 

Lucid the electric vehicle maker, said it isn’t considering a bankruptcy, and so far, the market believes it.

The service centers are in smaller markets, and ArcBest plans to consolidate their operations into other facilities within the affected regions.