A battery storage complex in Houston. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images) “Drill, baby, drill” may be Texas’ unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate. The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but it’s quickly becoming the biggest installer of a technology key for renewables development: battery ...more
GM's Innovation Labs launched BrightDrop in 2021 as part of the company's push into the electric vehicle space. (Daniel Kunzfeld Photography) General Motors Co. will temporarily halt production at a factory in Ontario that makes commercial vans, the second Canadian assembly plant to shut this month. The Detroit-based automaker plans to start short-term layoffs on ...more
An Exxon Mobil Corp. oil drilling rig near Stanton, Texas. (Justin Hamel/Bloomberg News) Drilling in the U.S. shale patch declined at the fastest pace in almost two years as mounting international trade tensions threaten to stifle energy demand. The number of U.S. rigs drilling for crude — a closely followed metric that can point to ...more
“We could see a drop off in volume starting as early as the month of May,” Seroka said. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg News) Imports at the busiest U.S. port should start declining as soon as May and are set to fall sharply in the second half of the year as punitive tariffs start to weigh on demand ...more
A motorist was caught on video doing a series of intentional donuts that led to a crash with a semi truck on a freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred just after 4 p.m. on the eastbound side of the 10 Freeway in Baldwin Park near Los Angeles, California on April 9th. According ...more
The Alabama Department of Transportation has started studying options for improving a notoriously dangerous mountain road, otherwise known as ‘Joe’s Truck Stop’. The most recent wreck in the area happened on Monday, April 7th at the sharp turn on Highway 35 known as ‘Joe’s Truck Stop in Fort Payne, Alabama. However, the issue with trucks ...more
A truck driver was arrested earlier this month after picking up a woman and ‘maintaining a house of prostitution’ using her services. 52-year-old truck driver Shawn Brownlee was arrested on April 3rd in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after meeting and picking up a woman from the Bay Area in California back in March. Brownlee had initially ...more
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will begin offering drivers the option to subscribe to free text alerts for the I-70 Mountain Corridor this summer. On April 10, CDOT announced plans to offer real-time text notifications for three key areas along the I-70 Mountain Corridor: the I-70 Floyd Hill Project, the I-70 West Vail Pass Auxiliary ...more
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) says that thousands of truck drivers will need to obtain new medical certification after the agency deemed two Houston-area doctors non-compliant with physical qualification examination regulations. On Friday, April 11, FMCSA announced that over 15,000 unexpired Medical Examiner’s Certificates (MECs) issued by Dr. Jenny Le and Dr. Dustin ...more
