Residents of a Chicago neighborhood say that semi truck traffic on their streets is causing serious health issues and are working to have the trucks redirected. Baltazar Enriquez and Liliana Medina are a part of the Little Village Community Council, and started knocking on doors looking for signatures on Thursday, June 22nd. The pair was ...more
A collapsed portion of Interstate 95 reopened at noon on Friday. Workers put the finishing touches on the temporary six-lane roadway this morning, and the temporarily repaired roadway was reopened to traffic at 12 p.m. EST. The reopening comes after the recruitment of a NASCAR racetrack jet dryer to ensure the pavement dried despite rainy ...more
The U.S. Coast Guard believes that they have located a truck driver who crashed off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon, according to a report. Around 2 p.m on June 22, officials say that a truck traveling north on the CBBT crashed off the bridge and into the bay ...more
Police are searching for a truck driver that fled the scene after striking two pedestrians on the side of an Illinois highway. The accident happened on Friday morning, June 23rd at around 3:23 a.m. in Bolingbrook, illinois. According to Fox 32, 28-year-old Perla Andrade-Garcia and another person pulled over onto the shoulder of Interstate 55 northbound ...more
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating the death of a truck driver at an ammunition plant in Madison County, Illinois, on Thursday. The incident occurred late Thursday afternoon at the Olin/Winchester ammunition facility located in East Alton, Illinois.Authorities say that Oscar “Zeke” Bettorf, 60, was driving a semi truck loaded ...more
Illinois State Police (ISP) are investigating a fatal truck vs. pedestrian crash that occurred early Friday morning in Bolingbrook. Police responded to northbound I-55 at mile marker 267 in Bolingbrook around 3:25 a.m. on June 23.At the scene, one person was found deceased and a second seriously injured. Investigators determined that pair had parked a ...more
The Nikola Motor Company says that they believe that an early morning that destroyed several electric semi trucks was set intentionally. The Phoenix Fire Department responded to Nikola’s company headquarters at 40th Street and Broadway Road in Phoenix, Arizona, around 5 a.m. on June 23.Hazardous Materials crews from @PHXFire & @TempeFire are on the scene ...more
Duane Long at the headquarters of Longistics in Raleigh in 2014. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics) Duane Long, former president and chairman of Raleigh, N.C.-based logistics provider Longistics Transportation Inc., died June 12 after a long battle with lung disease. He was 70. He was elected the 70th chairman of American Trucking Associations in ...more
Parts costs rose more than 8% and labor 10%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2023 compared with the same period a year earlier. (Penske) Maintenance parts and labor expenses for trucking companies across North America rose more than 8% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2023 and are unlikely to return to previous levels, ...more
This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4. (Gene J. Puskar/AP/File) ATLANTA — Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene, because ...more
