Insights and Stories on Trucks

Vaccine mandate to lead to inflation, empty shelves, trucking executives say

Jan. 20, 2022 at 5:41 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian consumers should soon see higher prices and some empty shelves in supermarkets and other retail outlets because of disruptions stemming from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, top trucking executives warned this week. The mandate, imposed by Ottawa to help curb the spread of […]

CNH shareholders approve spin-off of truck maker Iveco

Dec. 23, 2021 at 1:45 pm CST

By Reuters

GM aims to tackle chip shortage with new designs

Nov. 18, 2021 at 9:23 pm CST

By Paul Lienert

Police reopen Ambassador Bridge

Oct. 4, 2021 at 3:09 pm CDT

By Reuters

GM to cut North American production, citing chip shortage

Sep. 2, 2021 at 5:02 pm CDT

By David Shepardson

Argentina forms agency to manage cargo river, grain exporters worry

Aug. 25, 2021 at 5:45 pm CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina said on Wednesday it had formed a new government agency to manage dredging operations needed to ensure navigation of the Parana River, which carries about 80 per cent of the country’s grains exports from the Pampas farm belt out to sea. For decades, cargo […]

By Hugh Bronstein Maximilian Heath

Sale of new fuel-powered cars, light trucks to be banned from 2035

Jun. 29, 2021 at 2:36 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will ban the sale of fuel-burning new cars and light-duty trucks from 2035 in an effort to reach net-zero emissions across the country by 2050, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said on Tuesday. Only zero-emissions cars and trucks can be sold from 2035, according to […]

By Steve Scherer

Ford recalling older-model Rangers over airbag inflators

Feb. 18, 2021 at 8:20 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling 153,000 older trucks that may have had obsolete Takata air bag modules installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed, the automaker said on Thursday. The second-largest U.S. automaker identified about 8,800 Ford Ranger 2004-06 trucks in […]

By David Shepardson

Ford cuts output of F-150s due to semiconductor shortage

Feb. 4, 2021 at 4:03 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it is cutting shifts at two U.S. plants that build its highly profitable flagship F-150 pickup trucks starting next week due to a global shortage of semiconductor chips, raising fears the problem could be worsening. The No. 2 U.S. automaker said […]

By David Shepardson

Peru farm protests grip country, turn deadly

Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:19 pm CST

Lima | Reuters — Protests by farm workers demanding better wages in Peru raged on for a fourth day Thursday, spreading north into key agricultural areas of the Andean nation, derailing harvests of some crops, snarling transport of produce and leaving at least one dead. Peruvian interim President Francisco Sagasti […]

By Maria Cervantes

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