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As it builds out its delivery fleet, Amazon is moving toward using a battery-electric delivery vehicle produced by Rivian Automotive, a Plymouth, Mich., manufacturer who earned media plaudits when it showed its first two vehicles at the L.A. Auto Show in November.
The business mileage reimbursement rate for 2019 increased 3.5 cents to 58 cents on Jan. 1 after two years of minimal change, the Internal Revenue Service announced late last year.
The city of Stockholm, Sweden, banned trucks from making deliveries at night to reduce noise levels. But a new pilot program will test quieter hybrid trucks for overnight deliveries to McDonald's restaurants in the area.
Magellan has announced the availability of RouteComplete, designed to make snow removal, waste collection, and street cleaning safer and more efficient for municipal fleets.
FreightWaves, a world freight news and data provider, announced “FreightWaves Radio,” a live, weekly call-in show for navigating the freight markets that will broadcast exclusively on SiriusXM.
The Propane Education & Research Council invites fleet owners and managers to take the Propane Autogas Tour for a chance to win a handful of prizes in the PERC booth at The Work Truck Show 2019.
Co-ops at the Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA) have reduced the number of worker injuries by 75% after implementing a new safety program.
California, Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon and Utah are the recent recipients of Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grants totaling $10.2 million and awarded by the Federal Highway Administration.
Ford Motor Co. has issued three individual recalls for its older F-150 half-ton pickups, 2019 Mustang, and several 2019 Lincoln models.
Vandals disabled all of the City of Mount Vernon, N.Y., snowplows and salt, garbage, and sewer trucks by stuffing latex gloves in the vehicles’ gas tanks.
