Here we go! Def Leppard is the surprise entertainment at the 2024 Daimler Truck Customer Appreciation Event at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. @DaimlerTruckNA#ATAmce24
TBT: This time last week I was driving a VNL semi for the first time at the revamped @VolvoTrucksNA Dublin, VA, test track! Hats off to all the professional drivers!
Under the Conservatives Britain’s public realm has been hollowed out. Prisons are full, local government is badly underfunded and the NHS is limping.
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In case you missed it, @TransportTopics has now released its updated 2024 Top 100 For-Hire Carriers list, which ranks the largest trucking companies in North America based on annual revenue. Check out my main takeaways and the full Top 100 list here: https://t.co/lgwGOKL8Z0
@wattevinc CEO Salim Youssefzadeh tells @TransportTopics he's ready to buy 1,000 Class 8 battery-electric #trucks from any OEM that makes the rigs megawatt charging system compliant by 2026, and he has the $ to do so!
@RyderSystemInc CEO Robert Sanchez told @ACTExpo the current battery-electric trucks are at the same development point as his brick phone and a technology inflection point is required.
@DaimlerTruckNA CEO John O'Leary was reflective at @ACTExpo on a BET panel: "The diesel business is paying for all of this." Although he added: "We will gladly reinvest all of those profits." Noting that five years ago: "We thought if we built it, they would come. We were wrong!"
@VolvoTrucks President Roger Alm warned @ACTExpo attendees a carbon dioxide price and a "massive amount" of charging stations were needed for the electrification of #trucking.
In best David Attenborough voice: "I approached cautiously; these beasts are notoriously skittish around members of the Fourth Estate!" A pair of #Tesla Semis spotted in the wild at @ACTExpo!