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Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles
Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles Kia is moving deeper into the commercial vehicle market with a 5.35-metre electric van capable of carrying up to 1,200kg, accommodating as many as three Euro pallets and, in long-range Cargo form, travelling more than 460km on the WLTP cycle. The new PV7, unveiled at … Read more…
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, however, and the arrangement is considerably more interesting. The vehicles are supplied with autonomous driving technology by Pony.ai. Croatian company Verne operates the service, whi… Read more…
Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznań
Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznań Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznań, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produced almost 2.9 million examples at the plant since 2003. The changes are evolutionary rather than a wholesale redesign. Volkswagen has concentrated on the areas drivers encounter … Read more…
Why Heavy-Truck Stopping Distance Is a System, Not a Single Number
Why Heavy-Truck Stopping Distance Is a System, Not a Single Number Stopping distance is often discussed as if every truck has one fixed number attached to it. In practice, a safe stop depends on an entire system: the driver’s attention, vehicle speed, brake response, tire and brake condition, cargo distribution, pavement, grade, weather, and the … Read more…
Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations
Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations A dispatcher deciding where to send an empty truck, a recruiter trying to fill a driving position and a claims manager chasing a missing proof of delivery appear to be dealing with quite different problems. Increasingly, however, they are working with variations of the same raw material: … Read more…
CarPlay Moves Beyond the Car as Helios Expands No Roads Platform
CarPlay Moves Beyond the Car as Helios Expands No Roads Platform Helios Technologies has added Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability to its No Roads platform, bringing the familiar smartphone interface into specialist vehicle displays designed for markets including marine, powersports, overlanding and other non-road applications. Developed by Helios operating companies Enovation Controls and i… Read more…
Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways
Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways Europe has spent years proving that heavy trucks can draw power from overhead lines while travelling at motorway speeds. Germany’s ELISA field trial ran from 2019 until the end of 2024, putting specially equipped trucks into real traffic and recording more than 146,000 kilometres under catenary power. … Read more…
Understanding How APIs Support Logistics Automation
Understanding How APIs Support Logistics Automation Modern logistics depends on information moving almost as efficiently as the freight itself. A single road shipment may involve an ERP platform, warehouse software, a transport management system and a carrier’s own technology. When these systems cannot communicate directly, employees often become responsible for moving information between th… Read more…
The Maintenance Layer Becomes the Battleground in Fleet Software
The Maintenance Layer Becomes the Battleground in Fleet Software Motive has launched Motive Maintenance, an AI-powered system that pulls vehicle and asset health, repair workflows and maintenance spend into a single view inside its existing platform. Presented as a way to trace a problem from a fault code detected on the road to a completed, … Read more…
What Makes a Semi Truck Crash Catastrophic
What Makes a Semi Truck Crash Catastrophic Emergency crews respond to a semi-truck incident on a freight corridor, where severity gets measured in closures as well as injuries. A collision involving a fully loaded semi truck is rarely a scaled-up version of a passenger car crash. When the impact leaves someone permanently disabled or dead, … Read more…
From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight
From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight A single billboard at an airport rarely counts as industry news, yet the placement Spotter AI has chosen for its first outdoor campaign says more about where value is concentrating in American road freight than most product launches manage. The company, a New … Read more…
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious and largely ignored until it failed. Operators graded it when it became visibly bad, and otherwise let it sit as background infrastructure … Read more…
Atlas Expands Driverless Truck Fleet to Build the Digital Oilfield Supply Chain
Atlas Expands Driverless Truck Fleet to Build the Digital Oilfield Supply Chain Atlas Energy Solutions has committed to quadrupling the driverless truck fleet it runs with Kodiak AI, lifting it from 28 vehicles at the end of March 2026 to 100 by the middle of 2027 and moving those trucks onto public roads for the … Read more…
ANCEL Brings Proactive Battery Management To Commercial Vehicles
ANCEL Brings Proactive Battery Management To Commercial Vehicles The portable jump starter has always been a grudge purchase, bought in the expectation of failure and forgotten in a glovebox until the morning an engine refuses to turn over. ANCEL’s expansion of its Super Starter line-up is interesting less for the hardware itself than for what … Read more…
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety Rear View Safety has launched an upgraded version of its AirVue wireless trailer camera platform, adding proximity sensing and expanding capacity to six cameras across a mixed wired and wireless architecture. Read as a product announcement, it is an incremental specification uplift. Read against what … Read more…
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from £38,155 excluding VAT and offered in Panel Van, Kombi and Shuttle form. The specification is familiar to anyone who has followed the Ford Pro architecture … Read more…
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft need propulsion systems capable of handling sustained high electrical loads without excessive heat, interference or premature component degradation. Im… Read more…
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App Commercial trucks are the lifelines of modern economies, hauling everything from concrete and steel to consumer goods. The sheer scale and mass of these vehicles provide significant advantages over other transportation modes for freight movement, but they also pose unique … Read more…
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in artificial intelligence. As autonomous vehicle technology matures, manufacturers, ports and logistics operators increasingly need solutions that can… Read more…
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne of aggregate up a site access road. That settlement has now … Read more…
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl of heavy machinery working hard. That’s where I found myself behind the … Read more…
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up to 700 kilometres on a single charge. For a segment that’s long been written off as too … Read more…
England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes
England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes A US technology firm has just cleared the one hurdle that turns an ordinary city bus into a roving enforcement officer. Hayden AI, a San Francisco-based outfit that bolts artificial intelligence onto public transport fleets, has secured approval from the UK’s Vehicle Certification Agency for … Read more…
Crankcase Ventilation on Diesel Work Trucks
Crankcase Ventilation on Diesel Work Trucks The Overlooked Maintenance Issue Killing Your Engine From the Inside If you run a diesel pickup in a fleet, you’ve probably heard plenty about DPF clogs and EGR failures. Those get all the attention. But there’s a quieter system on your diesel engine that causes just as much damage … Read more…
XPENG Introduces First Mass Produced Robotaxi Platform
XPENG Introduces First Mass Produced Robotaxi Platform Autonomous mobility has spent the better part of a decade trapped between bold promises and limited pilot programmes. Cities around the world have witnessed impressive demonstrations of self-driving technology, yet large-scale commercial deployment has remained frustratingly elusive. Regulatory hurdles, hardware costs, safety concerns and the… Read more…
UK Power Networks Mapping the Future of Electric Freight
UK Power Networks Mapping the Future of Electric Freight Britain’s freight industry is approaching a pivotal moment. While passenger electric vehicles have steadily entered the mainstream over the past decade, the transition of heavy goods vehicles from diesel to battery-electric propulsion represents a far more complex challenge. Logistics operators are not simply swapping engines. They … Read more…
Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence
Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence Fleet operations across construction, utilities, emergency response and transport are becoming increasingly data-driven, yet many organisations are still managing fragmented in-vehicle technology ecosystems held together by layers of disconnected hardware and software. Rugged laptops, telematics modules, GPS trackers, vehicle diagnosti… Read more…
Netherlands Tightens Enforcement Ahead of National Truck Toll Rollout
Netherlands Tightens Enforcement Ahead of National Truck Toll Rollout The Netherlands is preparing for one of the most significant changes to its freight transport system in decades, with the national truck toll scheme set to begin on 1 July 2026. The move places the country alongside a growing number of European nations adopting kilometre-based road … Read more…
Why J1939 Gauges Are Critical in Heavy Equipment Instrument Clusters?
Why J1939 Gauges Are Critical in Heavy Equipment Instrument Clusters? Modern heavy vehicles and machines, such as tractors, buses, and construction equipment, rely on advanced technology to operate safely and efficiently. One of the most important components of these machines is the instrument cluster, the dashboard that displays all the key information operators need while … Read more…
Keeping Construction Fleets on the Move
Keeping Construction Fleets on the Move What Every Site Manager Needs to Know About Diesel Truck Maintenance A construction project moves at the pace of its logistics. Concrete arrives on time or it doesn’t. Aggregates reach the paving crew on schedule or the entire day’s work stalls. Heavy equipment gets repositioned between sites efficiently or … Read more…
Autonomous Freight Reshaping America’s Food Supply Chain
Autonomous Freight Reshaping America’s Food Supply Chain The race to automate long-haul freight has shifted out of the testing phase and onto live commercial corridors, with autonomous trucking company Aurora Innovation beginning driverless freight operations for McLane Company in Texas. The move marks another significant milestone for autonomous logistics in North America and offers a … Read more…
Aeva Accelerating Autonomous Freight with 4D LiDAR for Daimler Trucks
Aeva Accelerating Autonomous Freight with 4D LiDAR for Daimler Trucks The race to commercialise autonomous freight transport has entered a more serious phase. For years, the industry has been flooded with pilot projects, prototype demonstrations and carefully choreographed test runs across American highways. Now, attention is shifting towards something far more commercially significant: industrial… Read more…
Hydrogen Refuelling Networks Push Safety Testing into Focus
Hydrogen Refuelling Networks Push Safety Testing into Focus Hydrogen may still represent a relatively small slice of the global transport energy market, yet investment in hydrogen infrastructure is accelerating at a pace few in the energy sector can ignore. Governments across Europe, Asia and North America are pouring billions into hydrogen corridors, heavy transport decarbonisation … Read more…
Ouster Redefines Machine Vision With Native Colour LiDAR and Physical AI Ambitions
Ouster Redefines Machine Vision With Native Colour LiDAR and Physical AI Ambitions Autonomous machines are becoming a far more serious proposition for the construction, mining, transport and infrastructure sectors. From robotic survey crews and autonomous haul trucks to intelligent traffic systems and AI-powered industrial inspection, the industry is shifting steadily toward machines capable of pe… Read more…
TRL Sets New Course for UK Police Blue Light Safety Standards
TRL Sets New Course for UK Police Blue Light Safety Standards The UK policing fleet is heading for one of its most significant vehicle safety reforms in decades, with TRL commissioned by the Metropolitan Police Service on behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council to develop a national Fleet Blue Light Standard for emergency vehicle … Read more…
Argonne Opens Heavy Duty Test Centre to Accelerate Cleaner Freight Innovation
Argonne Opens Heavy Duty Test Centre to Accelerate Cleaner Freight Innovation Developing the next generation of medium and heavy-duty vehicles has become one of the transport sector’s toughest engineering challenges. Truck manufacturers, logistics operators and technology suppliers are being asked to deliver lower emissions, better fuel economy, stronger uptime and smarter automation, all while na… Read more…
Isuzu D Max 2.2 Raises the Stakes for Workhorse Pick Ups
Isuzu D Max 2.2 Raises the Stakes for Workhorse Pick Ups The arrival of the Isuzu D-Max 2.2 signals more than a routine model update. In a market where emissions pressure, rising operating costs and evolving fleet expectations are reshaping procurement decisions, Isuzu’s latest move reflects a broader shift in how light commercial vehicles are … Read more…
BYD Targets UK Commercial Fleets with Electric Dolphin Cargo e-Van Debut
BYD Targets UK Commercial Fleets with Electric Dolphin Cargo e-Van Debut The steady electrification of transport has already reshaped passenger mobility across Europe, yet the commercial vehicle sector has lagged behind, constrained by cost, range anxiety and operational compromises. That gap is now narrowing. BYD is stepping directly into the UK light commercial vehicle market … Read more…
Isuzu and Toyota Move Hydrogen Trucks Toward Commercial Reality
Isuzu and Toyota Move Hydrogen Trucks Toward Commercial Reality The race to decarbonise freight transport has entered a decisive phase, with Isuzu Motors Limited and Toyota Motor Corporation aligning their engineering capabilities to develop a next-generation light-duty fuel cell truck. Designed for mass production by fiscal year 2027, the programme reflects a growing recognition that … Read more…
New Isuzu D Max Delivers More Torque For Real World Demands
New Isuzu D Max Delivers More Torque For Real World Demands The latest iteration of the Isuzu D-Max arrives at a time when the European pick-up market is navigating tighter emissions standards, rising operational costs, and a growing expectation for passenger-car comfort in commercial vehicles. Set to debut at the Commercial Vehicle Show in April, … Read more…
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