American semi trucks are quite an iconic sight, and not just in their homeland either. While European trucks, or lorries as they can be called in England, have flat fronts, American semi trucks boast ...

Have you ever wondered why some semi trucks have one set of wheels and others have two sets crammed together? That's because some semis use a single axle while others have tandem axles, but why is it ...

While automatic transmissions have their benefits, plenty of semi drivers prefer to shift gears themselves. Mastering the art of smoothly shifting a semi truck's manual transmission is no small feat, ...

Anyone who's spent any time driving knows that semi-trucks are a fixture on American roads. Vehicles from the most popular semi-truck manufacturers covered just over 500 billion miles in 2022 alone, ...

If you are a semi truck aficionado, chances are you have heard of Paccar. This colossus of the commercial trucking world is an unassuming giant for the uninitiated, but it quietly owns (or once owned) ...

Napoleon understood that an army moves on its stomach. So, too, did U.S. military planners in World War II. The Germans began the war with a Blitzkrieg attack that relied on mechanized columns of ...

A new study from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) challenges the notion that battery electric semi trucks can’t serve long-haul logistics, but they’re not presenting a slide ...

The 2025 edition of the ACT Expo hasn’t even started yet, but there’s already at least one big takeaway wort talking about: the Tesla-fighting Windrose electric semi truck from China Belgium is not ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...