A truck driver was nearly robbed at gunpoint after being stopped by a criminal in a car with police lights. The incident happened in Edgecombe County, North Carolina on Tuesday morning, June 27th. According to WRAL News, truck driver Wiley Stanton was driving his truck at the intersection of Wood Duck Road and Davistown-Mercer Lane when ...more
Trucks idle during "The People's Convoy" event in 2022 in Hagerstown, Md. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg News) CUMBERLAND, Md. — A nationwide shortage of parking spaces for truckers went local June 22 as Maryland’s Allegany County Board of Commissioners heard from an advocate asking for support in remedying the problem. Carrie Wolford of Westernport, Md., whose husband ...more
President Joe Biden, shown June 26 at the White House, includes internet access as part of his infrastructure program. (Evan Vucci/AP) With the height of the busy summer travel season upon us, President Joe Biden is touting investments approved in 2021’s infrastructure law. The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, made possible with bipartisan ...more
A Peterbilt Model 567 performs a wet-handling braking test at the ContiXperience event. (Connor D. Wolf/Transport Topics) UVALDE, Texas — Continental on June 20 hosted a test drive involving a Class 8 truck and sports cars to demonstrate how its tires handle various road conditions. The ContiXperience provided a firsthand look at how the company ...more
Mountains and a liming facility are reflected in a brine evaporation pond at Albemarle Corp.'s Silver Peak lithium facility in Silver Peak, Nev. (John Locher/Associated Press) BEIJING — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally ...more
Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau say the agricultural sector alone will be illegally overcharged $74 million due to the exemption not being recognized. (vitpho/Getty Images) Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau have given the state Department of Ecology a 60-day deadline to answer how it will comply with a new carbon price ...more
Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau say the agricultural sector alone will be illegally overcharged $74 million due to the exemption not being recognized. (vitpho/Getty Images) Washington Trucking Associations and Washington Farm Bureau have given the state Department of Ecology a 60-day deadline to answer how it will comply with a new carbon price ...more
Uber Freight estimated that truck drivers could be wasting about 3.5 billion hours in total each year driving empty. (Uber Freight) The trucking industry could be driving close to double the number of empty miles than initially estimated. Uber Freight released the findings June 28 in a report that explored the accuracy of empty-mile estimates ...more
Ryan Wheeler says fleet electrification projects tend to be bigger than most utility connections. (Blake Franko, TMC) Facility electrification timelines for U.S. heavy-duty trucking fleets are likely to be more protracted than carrier executives might expect, according to early movers in the sector and executives at power utilities. Bureaucracy is likely to take time to ...more
The vote to decertify Teamsters Local 769 at XPO's Hialeah, Fla., facility was taken June 21. (XPO) XPO workers on June 21 voted to remove a local Teamsters union from their Hialeah, Fla., workplace. Teamsters Local 769 was first certified as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of the facility in December 2014 when it was ...more
