10+ hour, 35+ min ago   (311+ words) Vanderhall’s 50-car Santarosa Launch Edition is mostly carbon trim, and the fine print matters more Provo’s three-wheel specialists rolled into Concours Village this week with a numbered special edition, which is the oldest trick in the small-manufacturer playbook and, to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1301+ words) John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week. He's drawn…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (493+ words) Eighteen years later, Daimler Truck North America has announced it is closing its Portland truck plant and moving the work to the Carolinas. The plant, obviously, never closed the first time. A military order kept the lights on, the contracts…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (267+ words) Modern pickups are also worth real money now. The bare-bones work truck is mostly a museum piece. Today’s higher trims roll off the lot wearing pricey alloy wheels, performance tires, fancy lighting, and other premium bits. One wheel-and-tire package can…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (607+ words) Stealing a car is one thing. Stealing a fully loaded semi that tips the scales around 80,000 pounds is a different problem entirely, because there is nowhere to hide something that big. Yet investigators say two men in North Carolina worked…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (269+ words) To put that in perspective: the yard had about 10,000 vehicles in its inventory. Manager Jesse Johnson estimates they lost around 90 percent of them, along with the office, every paper record the business kept, and a brand-new tow shop. Wind-driven flames…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (432+ words) The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation says the case came to a head Wednesday morning, when agents served search warrants at properties in Hope Mills and Hoke County. The operation was the result of a multi-agency investigation that had…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (804+ words) The U.S. trucking industry just took a hit that’s impossible to ignore. More than 17,000 truck drivers have been removed from American roads after failing to meet English language proficiency standards, a move the federal government says is about safety—but one…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (337+ words) Doyle Archer has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest active male truck driver, a milestone that reflects both longevity and consistency in a career spanning more than six decades. Archer secured the record at 90 years…...