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OMAHA, Neb. — Federal regulators said April 7 that railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains after a string of derailments in recent years.

BEIJING — Electric car maker Tesla Inc. plans to build a factory in Shanghai to produce power-storage devices for sale worldwide, state media reported April 9.

WASHINGTON — Electric vehicle leases are likely to surge beginning April 18, experts say, as new federal restrictions on EV tax credits come into effect.

Attorneys filed 80,000 to 100,000 new court cases that could seek damages from businesses a few days before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enacted a law to quash lawsuit abuse.

America’s employers added 236,000 jobs in March — 5,700 of them in trucking — suggesting that the economy remains on solid footing despite interest rate hikes designed to tame inflation.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Trucks Plan, to take effect by 2027, is targeting a 75% reduction in nitrogen oxide.

Public-private partnership Task Force Movement is seeing success in helping military veteran community members find trucking jobs, including Afghan refugees who helped U.S. troops.

The largest container gateway into the U.S. remained closed April 7 as a shortage of dockworker labor that halted operations April 6 goes into a second day.

The Biden administration is on track to propose the toughest-ever U.S. curbs on car pollution, while stopping short of an electric vehicle mandate or ban on gas-powered models.

Ford Motor Co. expects only its F-150 Lightning pickup to qualify for a full tax credit under a new law designed to spur adoption of battery-powered models.