If you follow the EV industry in North America, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the future of transportation revolves around electric SUVs and pickups. Every week seems to bring another teaser from a startup promising to reinvent the family car or truck. The latest electric SUVs, “coming soon” tiny trucks, lifestyle trucks, modular trucks,…
Five years ago, I did something that seemed pretty ridiculous at the time. I bought a $2,000 electric mini-truck from China, had it shipped across the oceans to the US, and put it to work on my parents’ property in Florida.
Mitsubishi is launching a new pickup truck in the United States. It’s part of the automaker’s revamped roadmap that includes a handful of other vehicles as it expands its lineup from four vehicles today to six as soon as next year. But this truck isn’t one of those six.
If you’ve been a faithful reader of Crane and Transport Briefing in 2026, by now you’ve probably noted a pattern in our Product Focus features. Ask a rough terrain crane manufacturer how business is going this year, and the answer comes back to some version of steady; customers are thinking harder before they buy, and…
Daimler Truck North America closed its Swan Island manufacturing plant October 30, ending decades of truck assembly at the Portland factory and shifting production to North Carolina and South Carolina as hundreds of Oregon workers lose their positions.
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A truck manufacturing plant in northwest Portland closed for good on Friday, laying off almost 400 workers.
The service truck industry has seen a lot of action this year. Fleet managers have more choices — and more customization options — than ever.
Rising diesel prices and soaring insurance premiums are pushing small trucking companies toward bankruptcy
Acela Truck Company is expanding its severe-service chassis portfolio with new Class 3-5 Ford F-Series and Ram 4x4 platforms equipped with its proprietary DuraLink suspension system, designed to provide specialty vehicle manufacturers and upfitters a turnkey alternative to conventional lift kits.
Footscray, 1956. A seventeen-year-old who'd left school at fifteen bought a secondhand war-surplus truck for roughly £400, borrowed from his mother, and started carting goods around Melbourne's western suburbs for anyone who'd pay. He had no fleet, no depot to speak of, and no capital beyond that one vehicle and whatever diesel he could afford…