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Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG were inspected by European Union antitrust investigators as the EU stepped up a probe into allegations the German car industry colluded on technology for decades.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like a long novel by Charles Dickens, the story of trucking now is one of adversity and opportunity on many key fronts. The for-hire industry faces a shortage of 50,000 drivers by the end of the year — an all-time high. The North American Free Trade Agreement needs updating, but the process appears frozen in adversarial positions. At the same time, truckload freight has grown 4% over the past five months, and trucking responded admirably to recent natural disasters, panelists here said.

ORLANDO, Fla. — To pave the way for autonomous trucks, technology developers will need to refine the interaction between the human and the machine, and add more advanced sensors and greater computing power to the vehicle, experts said.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Navistar International Corp. announced price increases of up to 2% for its model-year 2019 vehicles, citing rising commodity prices. The price increases may affect all product lines and classes of trucks and don’t single out Class 8 trucks.

America’s most popular fuel hasn’t been feeling the love. U.S. gasoline consumption dropped even as overall fuel demand posted an increase this year.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The driver shortage has regained its status as the trucking industry’s most pressing concern for the first time since 2006, American Transportation Research Institute reported.

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) annual Management Conference & Exhibition (MC&E) for 2017 took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, and featured 163 exhibitors showing off everything from Class 8 tractors, eng