Early Nikola fuel cell truck buyer confident about hydrogen fuel

Bill Hall left his job as a senior marine engineer at age 59, earned his CDL and started Coyote Container with two trucks and one trailer in Northern California.  Now he is among the first retail purchasers of a zero-emissions Nikola fuel cell electric truck. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Click here to get…

Aurora freezes designs for autonomous hardware scaling

Aurora Innovation has frozen the design for autonomous hardware that Continental will build at scale for thousands of driverless trucks. Separately, Aurora plans a commercial launch of a few driverless trucks on a Houston-to-Dallas route later this year. Bringing new automotive-grade hardware to market can take years from initial design to end user. Aurora established…

Truck transportation jobs trend higher while warehouses shed workers

Truck transportation jobs continued a slow recovery from the depths of the freight recession and the job losses created when Yellow Corp. went out of business in 2023. The December figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday showed that seasonally adjusted truck transportation jobs rose 3,300 last month, rising to 1,586,300 jobs….