A woman is dead after a forgotten tool flew off of a flatbed trailer and through the windshield of a car in Georgia on Tuesday. The accident happened on May 16th in Whitfield County, Georgia. According to ABC 7, the tool, identified as a winch bar, fell off the semi truck along Interstate 75. A portion ...more
Two people are dead after a semi truck attempted a u-turn and ended up blocking the roadway. The accident happened just after 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 17th in Mont Belvieu, Texas. According to Click 2 Houston News, the lowboy tractor trailer was heading northbound on Eagle Drive when the driver decided to attempt a u-turn ...more
A Target store in Chicago. Adjusted earnings totaled $2.05 a share during Q1. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News) Target Corp. stood by its annual outlook after posting higher-than-expected profit in the first quarter, even as “softening sales trends” threaten to crimp short-term results. Robust sales in food, beauty products and household essentials are offsetting flagging demand for ...more
Elon Musk (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk said the electric carmaker will dabble in advertisements, a major shift for the company that has largely avoided traditional marketing. “We’ll try a little advertising and see how it goes,” Musk said May 16 at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, in response to an investor’s question. ...more
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration analysis did not show an increase in overall crash trends the year after the HOS rule was amended. (traveler1116/Getty Images) Amendments to the hours-of-service rule that went into effect in late 2020 may have increased flexibility for truck drivers, but the percentage of HOS violations rose “significantly higher” the ...more
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey cuts a ribbon to signal the start of a renewable diesel production facility in Mobile. (Business Wire) Alabama has taken steps toward building the state’s first renewable diesel production facility in Mobile using soybean oil from state farmers to make low-carbon fuel. The renewable diesel fuel produced there can be seamlessly ...more
A view of storefronts in downtown Marshall, Mich. (J. Scott Park/mlive.com via Tribune Content Agency) A historic town could find new life in the electric vehicle revolution — at least that’s what downtown business owners are hoping. Advocates for Ford’s $3.5 billion electric vehicle lithium-ion battery plant in Marshall, Mich., say the 2,500 jobs it ...more
In a previous announcement, the company in November said 650 employees would lose their jobs. (C.H. Robinson) Logistics company C.H. Robinson is cutting another 300 employees, the second round of layoffs in seven months. “This impacted colleagues across the company, but primarily in shared services and non-engineering technology roles,” said Duncan Burns, C.H. Robinson’s chief ...more
A truck driver stopped on the shoulder decides to just pull out into traffic without looking in this clip. The dash cam video was submitted by CDLLife reader Mohamed T. “Moving at 65 mph and this just pulled out of the shoulder didn’t even check what is coming down the hill. This is I 65 Northbound ...more
A truck driver got a police escort the wrong direction on a Houston interstate after realizing his load would not fit beneath an overpass. The incident happened at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, May 17th in Houston, Texas on Interstate 45 northbound at Allen Parkway. According to ABC 13 News, the truck driver contacted police when ...more
