Police issued multiple charges to a truck driver who allegedly failed to stop for police while filling out a log book while on the road. The incident occurred in Caledon, Ontario, according to a Thursday morning Tweet from the Ontario Provincial Police’s Central Region.From OPP: “Filling out your log book & pre-trip inspection while driving ...more
Certain types of commercial vehicles will be banned from traveling on the Ohio Turnpike over much of the holiday weekend. The Ohio Turnpike travel bans will go into effect at 6 a.m. on Friday, December 23 and are expected to expire at 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 25.The travel ban applies to the following vehicle ...more
Two pickup trucks and a semi truck collided at the entrance to a rest stop in Oregon on Wednesday morning. The accident happened on December 21st at 7:30 a.m. at the northbound rest stop at milepost 178 on I-5 in Lane County, Oregon. According to NBC 16, a semi truck, a white pickup, and a green ...more
White House Supply Chain Envoy Stephen Lyons says the nation’s supply chain is ending 2022 in a much better position than a year ago. In 2021, there were concerns about shortages in stores and warehouses, rapidly rising prices to ship goods and thousands of containers stacking up at the nation’s ports as railroads could not ...more
FedEx Corp. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates, lifted by price increases and cost cuts that helped make up for a decline in package volume. Shares of the delivery giant rose after the company announced an additional $1 billion of projected savings in fiscal 2023, bringing the total to about $3.7 billion. Earnings ...more
Colorado, North and South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming have declared temporary emergency exemptions of federal driving hours for deliveries of heating fuel. The Colorado State Patrol on Dec. 20 approved a temporary exemption through Jan. 31 from federal hours-of-service regulations for commercial drivers hauling consumer heating fuels, propane and natural gas. “Should it become apparent ...more
The president of Toyota Motor Corp. is publicly questioning whether the auto industry should transition as quickly to electric vehicles. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Akio Toyoda said during a recent visit to Thailand that a “silent majority” of auto executives question whether EVs should be a single option. “But they think it’s the ...more
Chicago is in the crosshairs of a powerful winter storm that could become a “bomb cyclone” — with deep snow, searing winds and an Arctic chill — threatening to disrupt Christmas travel for millions of people in the U.S. and bring a deep freeze to the eastern two-thirds of the country. While the city, a ...more
Certain vehicles will not be permitted to travel on the Indiana Toll Road starting on Thursday due to an impending winter storm. Starting on Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 5 p.m. (EST) through until Saturday, December 24, 2022 at midnight, a winter weather travel ban will be in place on the Indiana Toll Road for ...more
No one was was hurt after a semi truck slipped on slick roads and crashed into a house in Minnesota on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on December 20th at around 7 p.m. shortly after it started snowing. “The road on the church hill got slick, it was snow-covered when we got there on scene,” said Hokah ...more
