US Targets 43.5 MPG for New Vehicles by 2032
Traffic on a Los Angeles freeway. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) DETROIT — The U.S. government wants to raise the fuel economy of new vehicles 18% by the 2032 model year so that all new vehicles would average about 43.5 miles per gallon in real-world driving. The proposed numbers were released July 28 by the National Highway ...more
Walmart’s First Class of Homegrown Truck Drivers Graduates
Ashley Milacek, 35, says her new job driving 18-wheelers will almost double her Walmart Supercenter salary. (Walmart) In the midst of a truck driver shortage last year, Walmart decided its own ranks of 1.6 million employees might want to learn how to drive a big rig for Walmart. Walmart dangled first-year truck driver salaries of ...more
Spero, Colantuone, Hicks Take It to the Next Level
Connecticut grand champion Anthony Spero of ABF Freight (left) shares a smile with Motor Transport Association of Connecticut President John Blair, who also was a tournament coordinator. (Eugene Mulero/Transport Topics) WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — On a crisp, sunny day in north central Connecticut, a veteran truck driver once again mastered a precision driving course. As ...more
Carrier Global Q2 Profits Pegged Back by Sale Charge
Carrier said its refrigeration division’s Q2 sales fell 6% to $972 million from $1.041 billion in the year-ago period. (Carrier) Carrier Global Corp. reported a narrowed second-quarter profit of $199 million, down from $573 million in the year-ago period, on the back of a charge related to the sale of fire suppression and detection unit ...more
Wrong-way, DUI motorist wreaks havoc between multiple cars, semi trucks
A motorist has been charged with driving under the influence after a wrong-way crash involving multiple cars and two semi trucks in Florida on Friday morning. The accident happened on July 28th in Seffner, Florida at around 3:40 a.m. According to Patch Tampa, a Lexus SUV traveling the wrong way on Interstate 4 near mile marker 10 ...more
Truckers remind public lack of parking means they “have to break the law” in face of recent fatal bus crash
A recent deadly Greyhound bus crash into a line of parked semi trucks has brought the issue of truck parking to the forefront of the news, despite years of issues. The July 12th crash in southern Illinois happened on an exit ramp where a line of semi trucks was parked outside of a rest area that ...more
Dash cam catches trucker saving car driver suffering from medical emergency
Dash cam video captures a semi truck driver going above and beyond to help stop a moving car after the driver suffered from a medical emergency.The video was captured on July 19 on Annacis Island in British Columbia, according to Global News.Truck driver Jaspreet Singh, 26, noticed something was off when a small blue came ...more
Yellow appears to be ‘laying off personnel & closing entire terminals,’ Teamsters say
The Teamsters say that layoffs and terminal closures appear to be happening at trucking giant Yellow Corp on Friday as the company reportedly prepares for bankruptcy.Nashville headquartered-Yellow is the nation’s third largest LTL carrier but it appears that the company will not survive ongoing disputes with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), a near-miss strike, ...more
Nine big rigs blown over on I-10 in Arizona
Several truck drivers were injured on Thursday when high winds toppled multiple semi trucks on an Arizona interstate.The blowovers occurred on the afternoon of July 27 on I-10 near New Hope, Arizona.Multiple jackknifed big rigs on both sides of I-10 south of Vicksburg due to thunderstorm outflow. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect. Time is 4:45 ...more