The Idaho State Police (ISP) are asking for public help in locating a pickup involving in a hit-and-run crash with a semi truck on I-90 earlier this month. The hit-and-run crash occurred at approximately 12:26 p.m on Friday, May 16, 2025, on westbound I-90 before the Fourth of July Pass Exit (Exit 28).ISP says that ...more
Police are searching for a truck driver that fled after being involved in a pile up crash near the Bay Bridge in Maryland. The accident happened on Tuesday, May 27th on the westbound side of US Highway 50 near the Bay Bridge. According to the MDTA Police, a tractor trailer, a Scion, a Jeep Wrangler, and ...more
A popular YouTube content creator recently shared video of an “unstoppable semi truck” plowing through a series of wild obstacles. This week, YouTuber Westen Champlin shared viral video of a 1988 Freightliner semi truck nicknamed “Buttercup” outfitted with a custom-built 6,000 pound plow on the front for maximum destruction. View this post on InstagramA post ...more
A day cab semi truck came to a stop balancing between highway bridges in Virginia on Wednesday morning. The accident happened on May 28th on Interstate 295 northbound near the Chesterfield-Henrico line in Virginia. According to Chesterfield County Fire and EMS, the day cab semi truck slid on wet roadways and hopped the barrier wall. The ...more
Sysco Helps Restaurants Caught in Trade War
Jeff Creswell prepares dishes featuring local ingredients for a tasting at Sysco’s test kitchen in Chicago. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg) On a recent weekday morning in downtown Chicago, chefs inside a test kitchen prepared a five-course meal featuring tostada verde with jalapeño gouda and trout on focaccia. The chefs usually cook these spreads to help customers ...more
Uncertainty Clouds Truck Retail Sales Outlook for Rest of 2025
Model year 2023 sleeper tractors averaged $96,735 at auction in April, 20.5% higher than in March, according to Chris Visser of J.D. Power. (Palmer Truck Sales) Uncertainty continues to cloud the retail sales and orders outlook for truck makers for the rest of 2025, according to observers. When demand will pick up is the million-dollar ...more
Software Logistics Giant WiseTech Buys E2open for $2.1B
Richard White by Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Australian shipping software company WiseTech Global Ltd. made its biggest ever acquisition, agreeing to buy E2open Parent Holdings Inc. in a deal that values the U.S. firm at $2.1 billion. The acquisition is the first major move by founder Richard White since he assumed the role of executive chairman in ...more
Volvo Cars to Cut 3,000 Jobs to Reduce Cost
A logo on a new Volvo vehicle. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg) FRANKFURT, Germany — Sweden-based Volvo Cars is eliminating 3,000 positions as part of a cost-cutting program as the automotive industry faces challenges from trade tensions and resulting economic uncertainty. The company said May 26 that around 1,200 of the job reductions would come among workers in ...more
Trump Signals He’ll Approve Nippon Bid for US Steel
(Justin Merriman/Bloomberg News) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said May 23 that U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he called a “planned partnership” that seemed to signal that he’ll approve a bid by Japan-based Nippon Steel to make a big investment in the iconic American steelmaker, if not buy ...more
Trump Says He’ll Delay Threatened EU Tariff Until July
The U.S. and EU flags. (E4C/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said May 25 that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc. That agreement came after a call with Ursula von der ...more