A Chevrolet Volt at a GM event. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images via Bloomberg News) DETROIT — Electric vehicles made by General Motors will be able to use much of Tesla’s extensive charging network beginning early next year under an agreement the two companies announced June 8. In addition, GM will adopt Tesla’s connector, the plug that ...more
Diesel trucks refuel at a truck stop. (Bim/Getty Images) Iowa is leading 19 states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for backing California’s future ban on heavy diesel vehicles in a purported attempt to regulate traditional trucking “out of existence through mandating net-zero emissions standards.” The 51-page legal action against the EPA ...more
Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell is calling on colleagues to support the Railway Safety Act.(Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) A series of bills meant to expedite supply chain operations and improve freight rail safety await consideration in the U.S. House and the Senate. Committee-passed legislation tackling truck parking concerns, the infrastructure permitting process and regulations ...more
Julie Su at her nomination announcement March 1. (Susan Walsh/AP) A vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor is on the radar for Senate Democrats, but Republicans continue to voice concerns about the candidate’s record on labor policy. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters June 7 he ...more
A Dorsey chassis. Thousands of these chassis are now in storage due to the CBP ruling. (Dorsey Intermodal via Facebook) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has ruled that chassis manufacturing company Pitts Enterprises and subsidiary company Dorsey Intermodal knowingly imported predominantly finished chassis from China that were being marketed as having been made ...more
ryasick/Getty Images At a recent two-day virtual meeting, officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asked members of the agency’s motor carrier advisory committee for some ideas on how the agency could improve truck safety. Committee members responded, offering officials a variety of candid suggestions. Broadly, the 25-member Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee wants ...more
A truck driver is hurt after failing to negotiate a curve in Michigan on Wednesday night. The accident happened on June 7th in Pierson Township, Michigan on US 131 south at the 22 Mile Road overpass. According to Fox 17 News, the semi truck ran off of US 131 along a curve as it approached the ...more
This week, a coalition of nineteen states filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing the state of California to pass regulations that will effectively ban diesel trucks in the coming years. On June 6, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced a lawsuit against the EPA, alleging that California’s move to require that ...more
A truck driver’s dash cam was rolling to capture a fatal multi-vehicle collision that occurred in Ontario on Thursday morning. The crash happened on westbound Derry Road in Mississauga around 9:30 a.m. on June 8, CP24 reports.In the dash cam video, you can see a MiWay bus crashing into stopped traffic in the right lane of ...more
A truck driver escaped a dangerous situation without injury after running over a grizzly bear cub in Montana recently. The truck driver was traveling along Highway 191 through Gallatin Canyon on May 26th at around 5 a.m. when he struck and killed a grizzly bear cub. The collision caused the airbags to deploy, and tore ...more
