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The trucking firms that appear on the 2021 Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire Carriers list are split nearly evenly between companies that reported a revenue decline in 2020 and those that still managed to grow during the year of COVID-19.

After navigating the disruption and uncertainty wrought by the coronavirus pandemic last year, the trucking industry has entered a historically strong business environment that many analysts expect to endure for the rest of 2021 and beyond.

The White House reiterated President Joe Biden’s opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan, raising new questions about the viability of a bipartisan compromise emerging in the Senate.

Truckstop .com announced it has integrated its Book It Now service with the transportation management solutions company Revenova.

Bridgestone Americas announced it made a minority investment in self-driving truck technology company Kodiak Robotics Inc.

Bosch announced it signed a long-term agreement to supply electric air compressors with integrated power electronics to Cellcentric, a joint venture of Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Group AB focused on developing hydrogen fuel cell systems.

Electric truck manufacturer Xos Inc. announced it established a new powertrain division called Powered by Xos.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — FedEx Corp. announced June 15 that it has partnered with Nuro, one of the nation’s leading autonomous vehicle companies, to test the use of driverless vehicles for multistop and appointment-based deliveries in Houston.

After years of booms and busts that produced astronomical losses along with a whole lot of oil, the fracking industry seems to have found a sweet spot. It’s poised to generate more than $30 billion of free cash this year.