A road through a Nevada National Park was closed overnight this week after a wayward semi truck got stuck under unclear circumstances.  The incident happened on May 20th on Snake Creek Road in Great Basin National Park in Nevada. The tractor trailer got stuck on the narrow, winding dirt road one mile from the dead end ...more

A truck driver is being charged with a felony after driving into a cemetery and getting stuck, causing damage to the property.  The incident happened on May 18th at the Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, West Virginia. The truck driver, 43-year-old Sean Michael Koppenhoefer, was charged with felony destruction of property on May 22nd, and ...more

Officials announced the opening of a new commercial vehicle enforcement facility in San Luis Obispo County, California. On Thursday, May 22, the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Coastal Division announced that a “brand-new” commercial vehicle enforcement facility has opened along eastbound and westbound State Route 46 in San Luis Obispo County.“These dedicated lanes give CHP inspectors ...more

The Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) released results from the International Roadcheck inspection campaign carried out in the Permian Basin last week. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Roadcheck inspection effort took place May 13 — 15 throughout North America.On May 22, TXDPS’s West Texas Division released results from the Roadcheck campaign in Andrews, Ector, ...more

EVgo fast-charging stations in Los Angeles. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg) When Jeffrey Raun drives his Tesla Model 3 far from his Anchorage, Alaska, home he pays some of the highest public charging rates in the nation. Juicing the car’s battery from 10% to 90% full costs somewhere around $32 at the Three Bears grocery and sporting goods ...more

(Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg News) Bankrupt battery maker Northvolt AB will stop production at its last remaining factory in northern Sweden at the end of June if it fails to find a buyer before then, a person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. The plant in Skelleftea has been running ...more

The moves in both states were welcomed by industry groups. (vitpho/Getty Images) Two states have halted implementation of laws modeled after California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule in the wake of stakeholder pushback and shifting regulatory and legislative winds. In the span of a few days, leaders in both Oregon and Vermont reversed plans to limit ...more

A containership passes under the International Gateway Bridge at the Port of Long Beach. (Tim Rue/Bloomberg) U.S. businesses are under mounting pressure to import goods while President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs are on pause, and they’re simultaneously navigating increasingly complex filing rules when their cargo crosses the border. Two de facto deadlines loom for companies ...more

At issue are cutting tailpipe emissions from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and curbing smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from trucks. (Matt Rourke/AP) WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on May 22 to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles ...more

At issue are cutting tailpipe emissions from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and curbing smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from trucks. (Matt Rourke/AP) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on May 21 voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back vehicle emission standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new ...more