idaho.gov Truckers in Idaho will be able to renew their commercial driver licenses online starting in July as a new law to reduce bureaucratic red tape takes effect. The new law “will provide additional customer convenience by assisting the trucking industry in the efficient credentialing of its drivers, reducing unnecessary traffic in local county DMV ...more
A shopper peruses a mountain bicycle on display in a Costco warehouse in Sheridan, Colo. (David Zalubowski/Associated Press) NEW YORK — Americans picked up their spending modestly in April, spending money online and dining out, buoyed by a solid job market and a retreat in prices for some things. Car sales also rose despite prices ...more
Rows of electrical motor parts at a factory. (Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg News) Production at U.S. factories rebounded in April, led by a firm advance at automakers and suggesting some stabilization in goods demand. Manufacturing output rose 1% last month after downward revisions to the prior two months, Federal Reserve data showed May 16. Including mining and ...more
The rescue of a trucker and his son in Oklahoma on Sunday was caught on camera, offering a closer look at the heroic actions of the responding firefighters. The crash happened in Oklahoma City on May 14th, when a motorist cut the trucker off and left the rig hanging off of Interstate 44 over Pennsylvania ...more
A series of wrecks involving a semi truck turned fatal when some Good Samaritans made an unsafe stop to try to help and were fatally struck. The incident occurred at around 2 a.m. on Sunday, May 14th on US 287 in Wichita Falls, Texas. According to News Channel 6, a semi truck crashed through a grassy ...more
A container ended up down an embankment after a semi truck overturned on a Florida on-ramp on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on May 16th near Doral, Florida. According to Local 10 News, the crash happened on the entrance ramp to the Palmetto Expressway northbound from the Dolphin Expressway westbound. The rig overturned when it failed ...more
The smoking aftermath of a crash between a semi truck and a van that left 27 people dead was caught on video by a witness. In the video, the van and truck trailer can be seen charred and still burning while witnesses wander around the outskirts of the crash scene. All of the crash victims are ...more
Content Sponsored by (Shell) Multi Service Fuel CardRising diesel prices over the past few years have caused cases of fuel card fraud to rise in an alarming fashion. For trucking companies often operating on the narrowest of margins of profit, fuel card fraud can come as an unexpected and devastating financial blow. As an owner operator ...more
A truck driver was left with very few options when a group of four-wheelers stopped in the middle of a highway for a crossing turtle. The chain-reaction crash was caught on the trucker’s dash cam on Tuesday, May 16th in Walton County, Florida on US 331. The cars and filming semi truck were heading south when ...more
Torc Robotics' pilot program with C.R. England will take place on the Interstate 40 corridor. (Torc Robotics) Torc Robotics and C.R. England are teaming up on a pilot program that leverages the refrigerated carrier’s temperature-controlled loads and the self-driving-vehicle technology company’s Level 4 autonomous trucks, they said in a May 9 statement. Salt Lake City-based C.R. ...more
