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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

BusinessTechnology

The Road Ahead: 2025 Trucking and Fleet Insights

Program Airs: December 10, 2 p.m. ET Mike Precia, Rob Abbott, and David O’Neal discuss the key findings in Fleetworthy’s exclusive industry report based on a survey of more than 300 fleet operators and independent truckers.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusinessFuel

US Sees Small Global Oil Deficit in 2025

The U.S. reversed its forecast for a crude glut next year and is now calling for a small oil-market deficit.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

Arizona City Gifts Land for New Cross-Border Trucking Port

The existing port — which is 5 miles away and expanded 27 years ago from the original one built in 1933 — can no longer handle today’s traffic and commercial vehicle inspection demands.

December 10, 2024
BusinessTechnologyEquipmentFuel

Volvo’s VNR Electric Reaches 10 Million Customer Miles

Almost 600 of the Volvo Group AB unit’s battery-electric straight trucks and tractors are now operational in the U.S. and Canada, collectively driving more than 200,000 miles every week.

December 10, 2024
BusinessTechnologyEquipment

Lion Electric President Nicolas Brunet Resigns

The president of Canadian electric bus and truck manufacturer Lion Electric Co. resigned as the cash-poor company made a last-ditch attempt to stay afloat.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusinessTechnology

China Benefits as Europe’s Big Battery Ambitions Are Failing

Europe’s bid to build a homegrown battery industry to break China’s dominance in electric vehicles is failing.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusinessTechnology

Micron Gets $6.2 Billion Chips Award

The Biden administration has reached a final agreement to give Micron Corp. nearly $6.2 billion in subsidies from a program designed to boost American semiconductor manufacturing.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyFuelTCA

Recycler to Be First US Supplier of Key EV Battery Component

Ascend Elements said it will start to market lithium carbonate, a key component in EV batteries, that it has been able to recycle and refine at its Covington, Ga., facility.

December 10, 2024
BusinessTechnology

Price of EV Battery Packs Falls Most Since 2017

The average price of lithium-ion battery packs has fallen the most in seven years,  a development likely to accelerate price parity between electric vehicles and gasoline-powered cars.

December 10, 2024
GovernmentBusiness

Trudeau Says Canada ‘Will Respond’ if Trump Imposes Tariffs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada “will respond†if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump imposes new tariffs on Canadian imports.

December 10, 2024