A crash involving a tractor and a tractor trailer sent the semi truck plummeting off of Route 30 Bypass in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon. The crash happened at about 1:10 p.m. on the Route 30 Bypass above Old Mill Road in Sadsbury Township, Pennsylvania. According to ABC 6, authorities were called to the scene when a ...more
A law going into effect in Louisiana next year seeks to incentivize trucking companies to outfit their vehicles with dash cams and telematics systems. House Bill 549, authored by Louisiana State Rep. Rodney Schamerhorn, was signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry on May 28, 2025. It will go into effect on January 1, 2026.I’m ...more
A man who quit his job to report idling semi trucks in New York City claims to make six figures as a semi truck “bounty hunter.” It is technically illegal for semi trucks to idle in New York City for more than three minutes at a time, but drivers who exceed the limit are rarely ...more
A major interstate at the Tennessee/North Carolina state line is shut down as of Thursday morning, and drivers are asked to seek alternate routes. At 7:25 on June 18, the Cocke County Emergency Management Agency (CCEMA) out of Tennessee announced that I-1-40 was closed in both directions at the North Carolina/Tennessee State line due to ...more
Amazon Ramps Up Zoox Robotaxi Factory
In this undated handout photo provided by Zoox, Zoox robotaxis are assembled at a 220,000-square-foot factory located in Hayward, Calif. (Zoox via AP) HAYWARD, Calif. — Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. Tesla ...more
Class 8 Truck Sales Drop 5% Year Over Year in May
A Mack Trucks dealership in Houston. Mack reported sales increased 1.5% to 1,637 units in May from 1,613 in May 2024. (Volvo Group) U.S. Class 8 retail sales experienced a sequential increase in May despite continuing to trend below the prior year, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Sales decreased 5% to 18,778 from the ...more
DOT’s Duffy Announces ‘Road Map’ for Air Taxis
A Wisk Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL prototype aircraft at the Paris Air Show on June 18. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg) Le BOURGET, France — Air taxi companies have promised for years that the small planes will soon carry customers and make deliveries — but they have yet to metaphorically get off the ground. Now, with intense support ...more
May Trailer Orders Increase 12% From Last Year
McNealy cautioned that expectations for subdued build and order intake levels this year remain intact. (Stoughton Trailers via Facebook) U.S. trailer orders continued fluctuating between year-over-year gains and losses by increasing again during May, ACT Research reported. Preliminary net data showed orders increased 12% to 6,600 units when compared with the same time last year. ...more
AI Vehicle Software Supplier Applied Intuition Raises $600M
“The last eight years have been about building the infrastructure to enable vehicle intelligence at scale,” Ludwig said. (Applied Intuition) Artificial intelligence-powered vehicle software supplier Applied Intuition said June 17 it had raised $600 million in funding, valuing the company at $15 billion. Applied Intuition is building a software-defined operating system for Traton Group, the ...more
Nippon Steel Closes $14.1 Billion Acquisition of US Steel
Logo of Nippon Steel on the exterior of Blast Furnace No. 1 at the company's Kashima Plant in Kashima, Japan. (Ayaka McGill/AP) Nippon Steel Corp. closed its $14.1 billion takeover of United States Steel Corp., bringing to an end an 18-month effort to combine the American and Japanese steelmakers, the companies said in a June ...more