A truck passes under a tolling gantry on the Kansas Turnpike. (Kansas Turnpike Authority) Making driving safer between the Oklahoma border and Kansas City is among the benefits of a massive Kansas Turnpike Authority project to update its 1950s tolling system by replacing 21 toll plazas with overhead gantry cameras and transponder sensors. “Cashless tolling ...more
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (second from right) joins other dignitaries at the groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 6. (Illinois Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity via X) Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker celebrated groundbreaking at a $250 million soybean processing plant expansion at Incobrasa Industries Ltd. to double its production capacity for animal feed, packaged vegetable oil and ...more
Massey Motor Freight owner Troy Massey accepts a plaque acknowleding the 100,000th Peterbilt Model 389. (Peterbilt Motors Co. via X) Peterbilt Motors Co. marked the production of the 100,000th Model 389 at its Denton, Texas, manufacturing plant as a milestone Sept. 7. The Model 389 was introduced in 2006. The milestone model is equipped with ...more
Locomotives are stacked up with freight cars in the Union Pacific Railroad's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Neb. (David Zalubowski/AP/File) OMAHA, Neb. — Federal inspectors said they found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world’s largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, and the railroad ...more
The pre-production truck was undergoing “battery fire investigation and testing” at a facility near its Phoenix headquarters when it caught fire. (Nikola Corp.) Nikola Corp. says one of its battery-electric big rigs experienced a “thermal incident” Sept. 8 during a test on the cause of recent fires that prompted a recall. The pre-production truck was ...more
Biodiesel tanker truck at Western Iowa Energy in Wall Lake, Iowa. Over 70% of U.S biodiesel capacity comes from Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. (Iowa Biodiesel Board via Flickr) U.S. biofuel production is burgeoning in the race to meet federal and state government mandates to lower heavy truck emissions. First-ever biofuel achievements have been recorded ...more
At an average cost of $5.97 a gallon, California's diesel price is 43.5 cents higher than the next most expensive region. (Aziz Shamuratov/Getty Images) The national average diesel price kept on its upward course, climbing 4.8 cents to reach $4.54, according to Energy Information Administration data released Sept. 11.HighlightsDiesel’s average price has risen for eight ...more
At an average cost of $5.97 a gallon, California's diesel price is 43.5 cents higher than the next most expensive region. (Aziz Shamuratov/Getty Images) The national average diesel price kept on its upward course, climbing 4.8 cents to reach $4.54, according to Energy Information Administration data released Sept. 11.HighlightsDiesel’s average price has risen for eight ...more
Alvin Brown speaks at his nomination hearing June 21. (commerce.senate.gov) Two months after a panel advanced his nomination to join the National Transportation Safety Board, Alvin Brown awaits consideration before the full Senate. The chamber’s Democratic leadership has yet to schedule a floor vote on his nomination. The former mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., tapped to ...more
A warehouse being used as a disaster relief hub. (Amazon) When Abe Diaz woke up one February morning, his mind was in Turkey. Working for Amazon from his Kenmore, Wash., home, Diaz was dreaming of ways to speed up the delivery process — but he wasn’t thinking about typical online shoppers. Instead, he was searching ...more
