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Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. reported net income of $7.2 million for second-quarter 2019, down 46% compared with net income of $13.2 million in the prior-year period.

Amazon said Aug. 6 that its six-wheeled self-driving robots, about the size of a smaller cooler, will begin delivering packages to customers in Irvine, Calif., after testing them in a suburb of Seattle earlier this year.

Class 8 orders were down to their lowest level since 2010 in July, according to preliminary numbers from ACT Research.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General audit has given a 2017 agency study critical of glider truck emissions a clean bill of health.

A group of trucking stakeholders asked Congress to repeal the 12% federal excise tax on the purchase of heavy-duty trucks, tractors and trailers.

Power management company Eaton Corp. reported net income of $636 million in the second quarter ended June 30, up 4.1% from $611 million in the same quarter in 2018.

Cummins Inc. reported $675 million in net income for the second quarter ended June 30, a 23.8% increase from the second quarter of 2018.

In preparation for winter weather, the Virginia Department of Transportation has started to equip snowplows with tracking devices throughout the state.

At a time of slowing freight volume and an increasingly adequate supply of power units, the average used Class 8 truck still brought a higher sales price in June than in the same month a year earlier, according to ACT Research.

Many carriers allow truck drivers to bring along a cat or dog as a companion. For fleets, the benefits seem to outweigh the costs.