Here are the headlines from this week in trucking as of July 13:

• Trump administration tariffs are back in the news cycle
• Some California CDL holders must retake their written exams
• Pennsylvania passed a law discouraging CDL mills
• Aurora announced second-generation autonomous truck
• Einride acquired Flipturn for as much as $73 million
• ArcBest is cutting back on its footprint
• Samsara gotrebrand
• Diesel jumped 34 cents, Houthi troubles raised oil prices

The economies of truck purchasing, buying, and maintaining can be messy—especially after EPA once again changed OEMs' outlook for equipment regulations over the next few years.

In this episode, The Fleet Lead's Jeremy Wolfe and John Hitch join Fleet Advantage experts Brian Antonellis and Mac Hudson for a roundtable discussion on truck lifecycle management. The panel looks at the regulatory rollback on EPA warranty mandates, the post-COVID used truck market, and why the 500,000-mile mark remains critical to vehicle replacement strategy.

Mack Trucks has called the Allentown area home for more than a century. Doug Maney, curator of the Mack Trucks Historical Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, discusses the company's innovations, the origins of the Bulldog mascot, and why Mack's history remains closely tied to American manufacturing and trucking today.