The truck driver found speaking with a pregnant teen and her 40-year-old baby daddy at a Nebraska truck stop was not arrested for the incident. The pregnant teen had been missing since early February and was finally found, along with the 40-year-old father of her unborn child, at a Love’s in Sarpy County, Nebraska, on ...more
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) will be concealing themselves inside construction vehicles while taking part in a Pennsylvania Turnpike (PA Turnpike) enforcement detail this month. For the month of April, PSP and the PA Turnpike are teaming up for ‘Operation Orange Squeeze,’ a work zone safety initiative that involves troopers sitting in construction vehicles in order to ...more
Love’s Travel Stops announced the opening of a new truck stop in southeastern Ohio. On April 3, 2025, Love’s announced the opening of a new store located off I-70 at Exit 208, at 66320 Belmont-Morristown Road in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Amenities at the St. Clairsville store include: 17,600 square feet121 truck parking spacesGodfather’s Pizza and Hardee’s restaurantsSpeedcoNine diesel ...more
A truck driver just walked away and abandoned his bobtail semi truck on Interstate 35 outside of Dallas on Friday morning. The accident happened on April 4th on southbound Interstate 35 E at Belt Line Road in Carrollton, Texas north of Dallas. According to WFAA News, the bobtail semi truck appears to have spun out on ...more
A semi’s trailer was catastrophically damaged by a strike with a low clearance bridge in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, according to local police. The bridge strike occurred on April 3 on South Flowers Mill Road in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania.According to the Middletown Township Police Department (MTPD), a truck hauling a load of candy struck a ...more
A trucking company is promising to make its 250 drivers a priority despite an abrupt decision to cease operations. LTI Trucking Services is based out of Madison, Illinois just outside of St. Louis, Missouri and employed approximately 250 truck drivers. The company notified its drivers on Thursday, April 3rd through a fleet-wide message that it ...more
The Arcadia Police Department (APD) shared dramatic video of a train vs. semi truck crash that occurred on Thursday. The crash took place on the morning of April 3, 2025, at Hazel and Railroad Ave. in Arcadia, Louisiana.APD said that the railroad company was notified of a stuck truck at the railroad crossing, but the ...more
Canada Hits US Autos With Tariffs, Mirroring Trump’s Move
Sunlight shines through the flags of Canada and the United States.(Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP/File) Canada will put 25% retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles in response to the Trump administration’s import taxes on foreign autos, Prime Minister Mark Carney said April 3. The Canadian tariffs will apply to vehicles that aren’t compliant with the ...more
OPEC+ Deepens Oil Price Slump by Accelerating Supply Hike
Oil pumping jacks in Russia. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) OPEC+ agreed to make a larger than expected oil supply hike in May, deepening the slump in oil prices triggered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia will add 411,000 barrels a day to the market next month, the equivalent of three ...more
Stellantis Pauses Work at Canada, Mexico Plants
(Ethan Miller/Getty Images/TNS) Stellantis NV is temporarily halting work at factories in Canada and Mexico as U.S. tariffs begin to impact operations across the automotive industry. The owner of Jeep and Ram brands will pause its Windsor, Ontario, plant for two weeks beginning April 7, the company said April 3. It wasn’t immediately clear how ...more