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Forum Mobility Plans Drayage Truck Charging Depot at California Port

NGT News

Freight electrification provider Forum Mobility is planning to open a new heavy-duty truck charging depot in the Port of Long Beach, Calif. This new depot will provide high-speed charging infrastructure for hundreds of drayage trucks per day, supporting the transition of the state’s drayage fleet to zero-emission.

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Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling Deploying Freightliner eCascadia Trucks

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Daimler Truck North America LLC (DTNA) has delivered 20 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors to Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling (RCCB), a West Coast and Midwest bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola brands. These electric vehicles will join RCCB’s fleet of delivery trucks in Downey, Calif.,

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DDA Transport Begins Adopting Propane Autogas Trucks

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has added six propane-fueled straight trucks to its fleet. The Ford trucks are powered by ROUSH CleanTech propane autogas technology. “As DDA Transport, a USPS mail contractor based in Londonderry, N.H.,

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Next Stop: A Career in Trucking - Part 2

Women in Trucking

The Women In Trucking Foundation scholarship program changes lives. By offering financial support through its scholarship program, the WIT Foundation allows women to overcome financial barriers to access education and training programs, empowering them to pursue successful careers in the trucking industry.

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Harmonizing Sales Visit Plans With Distribution Routes for Best Effect

In large FMCG companies the usual rhythm is that salespeople visit stores to take orders and the orders get delivered the next day by trucks. This means that there are two separate but deeply interacting routing problems to deal with: routes for the salespeople and routes for the trucks.

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One truck to many: D. Weaver Trucking's sixfold growth in 2 years

Overdrive Online

Year 2019 yielded spectacular income for then-one-truck owner-operator Dannel Weaver. A high tax bill, too, which in part led to a decision to grow the fleet, now at six trucks, including one Weaver still pilots.

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RIZON Distributor Velocity EV Adds California Truck Centers as Dealer

NGT News

distributor of RIZON battery-electric trucks, has added California Truck Centers, one of the state’s largest commercial truck dealerships, to its authorized dealer network. Velocity EV, the exclusive U.S.

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6 Ways Video Telematics Improves Driver Safety

Download the eBook and learn 6 ways to improve driver safety by using dash cams on your trucks, along with additional benefits: Save Costs Through Safer & Better Driving. An in-cab dash cam video system can help fleet operators significantly reduce risky driving, costly legal judgments, and insurance costs.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

It was followed by port blockages and congestion, strikes among truck drivers and railway workers, a major recall and plant closure that led to a disastrous baby formula shortage, concerns about the future of semiconductor availability, turbulence in the ESG investment market, and much more. The pandemic was just the start.