A motorist in a rush gets pays the price for impatience when their attempt to pass a truck ends in a crash with a stationary cop cruiser.The video was captured on July 28, 2023i in East Hartford, Connecticut.“A motorist in a hurry cuts between two semis and rear-ends a CT state trooper blocking the lane ...more
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) has provided details on a fatal multi-vehicle crash that occurred in a parking lot off the Will Rogers Turnpike on Friday.The crash occurred around 1 a.m. on August 4 in Craig County, Oklahoma.OHP says that 31 year old Idaho-based truck driver Jerome Lubango Bienvenu was westbound on the Will Rogers ...more
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently seized hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs from a shipment of vegetables at a Texas border crossing.The drug seizure took place August 4 at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility located in Pharr, Texas.Officers referred a semi truck arriving from Mexico for a secondary inspection using non-intrusive ...more
A Cruise patch is seen on the right shoulder of a Giants player Aug. 3. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via Tribune Content Agency) For the first time in the team’s 140-year history, the San Francisco Giants will have a sponsor on their jersey. Cruise, which offers a driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco, now ...more
Steve Girsky takes over as CEO immediately. (Nikola Corp.) Nikola Corp. is tapping a former General Motors Co. vice chairman to serve as its CEO, replacing the current CEO after less than a year of running the electric truck maker. Steve Girsky will take over as CEO of the troubled manufacturer that he helped take ...more
An employee works on a car on the assembly line at the BMW Spartanburg plant in Greer, S.C. (Sean Rayford, AP) WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, fewer than expected, as the higher interest rates continued to weigh on the economy. But the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% in a sign that ...more
Daily shipments were up to 51,220 compared with 50,274 a year ago. (XPO) XPO saw second-quarter net income and revenue decline, but the company sees momentum headed into the third quarter. The less-than-truckload carrier on Aug. 4 reported that Q2 net income fell to $33 million, or 28 cents per share, compared with $141 million, ...more
A Tesla dealer in Fremont, Calif. (Ben Margot/Associated Press) For the first time in California, one out of every four new cars sold in the last quarter were zero-emission vehicles, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week. Policymakers have long prioritized EV sales as part of the state’s climate goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To ...more
(Titanium Transportation Group) Titanium Transportation Group acquired Oakwood, Ga.-based Crane Transport to drive growth of the Canadian company’s U.S. logistics business, it said. Bolton, Ontario-based Titanium paid a total of $53 million for truckload specialist Crane, and the deal is the Canadian company’s first U.S. asset acquisition. Crane, founded in 2001, generates about $60 million ...more
Lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that would force the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to repeal Entry-Level Driver Training requirements.The “Trucking Workforce Improvement Act” was reintroduced by Virginia Rep. Bob Good on July 19, 2023.If passed, the bill would roll back the FMCSA’s Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) rule that went into effect on February ...more
