General Motors has signaled in a series of recent announcements on plant retoolings that it plans to keep its largest and most profitable combustion trucks and SUVs in production longer than expected - another 10 to 12 years, according to analysts and suppliers.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks revealed a heavy-duty electric truck to take on Tesla Inc.’s battery-powered Semi, the latest move in the intensifying race to decarbonize road logistics.

New car and truck dealers from across the country are meeting today with key members of the House of Representatives in support of efforts to enact reasonable increases in the national Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard. Dealers are urging their Representatives to support a bill, H.R. 2927-the Hill-Terry CAFE alternative, which would…

TRUCK DEALERS APPLAUD REPS. RIBBLE AND WALZ FOR EFFORTS WASHINGTON (March 27, 2015) - Reps. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.) reintroduced  legislation this week that reaffirms congressional opposition to any increase of the excise tax on new heavy-duty trucks. The concurrent resolution, H. Con. Res. 33, was introduced with 17…

TRUCKING EXECUTIVES DISCUSS PRIME CONSIDERATIONS IN CHOOSING DEALERS AT ATD INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE   LAS VEGAS (March 31, 2016) - Data is key to understand the ebbs and flows of trucking, but the definition of what is measured is just as vital. Bob Costello, chief economist and vice president of American Trucking Associations, told…

The city of New Orleans will host the 51st annual American Truck Dealers (ATD) Convention & Expo next January.

Evelyn Chatel has had a lot of mentors throughout her career in the automotive retail industry, but the person who really inspired her to succeed was her mother. Chatel’s mother fled with her children on one of the last Freedom Flights out of Cuba in 1967 after her father was arrested for protesting. “She got on that plane with two babies and…

In his final remarks as chairman of the American Truck Dealers (ATD), Steve Parker urged the nation’s commercial-truck dealers to work with their members of Congress to repeal the “outdated and harmful” federal excise tax on the sale of heavy-duty trucks and trailers.

No one could have predicted the toll the coronavirus pandemic would take on the U.S. economy, businesses and jobs. As the severity of the pandemic diminishes, American businesses are slowly beginning to reopen and rebuild. In response, leaders in Washington have enacted a number of policies to help the country weather the storm, but Congress needs…

McLean, Va., June 19, 2015 -The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) and American Truck Dealers (ATD) released the following statement in response to EPA and NHTSA's proposed Phase 2 emissions and fuel-efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks: "Affordable transportation is the bedrock of the American economy…