A truck driver is in critical condition after a flatbed truck veered off a roadway and into a nearby home in Massachusetts. The accident occurred at 9:27 a.m. off of Hartford Avenue and Nason Street in Bellingham, Massachusetts.According to WWLP 22, a flatbed truck hauling a large piece of heavy construction equipment veered off the road, ...more
Body cam video released by the London Police Department (LPD) out of Ohio shows a tense standoff at a truck stop as two suspects stole a semi truck with the truck driver still inside.The video was captured early on August 2 after an LPD officer stopped a male and a female in a passenger vehicle ...more
A motorist involved in a road rage shooting against a truck driver has been identified, but the incident has Nashville truckers “shocked.”The incident happened last Thursday, July 27th, in Nashville Tennessee after a pickup truck driver had trouble merging in front of a semi truck getting onto Interstate 24 in traffic. A passenger in the ...more
Tesla is seeking almost $100 million in government funding for an electric semi truck charging route from southern Texas to its original California factory. California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District filed the application on Tesla’s behalf, reported Green Car Reports. The application i seeking $97 in funding, and Tesla plans on spending $24 for the ...more
A well-known trucking content creator has gone viral on TikTok for a hypnotic video series that uses AI to tell the stories of a trucker history that never happened — but might have in a stranger alternate universe.Texomatic Motor Media has for years created interesting and high quality content for and about the trucking industry. ...more
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses trucking giant Yellow Corp. of failing to provide the legally required amount of notice prior to laying off tens of thousands of workers.According to the suit filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware on August 1, Nashville-headquartered Yellow Corp. performed mass worker layoffs ...more
This week, a semi truck driver was issued multiple citations after becoming stuck on the Smugglers Notch segment of Vermont Route 108 in Cambridge, Vermont.Th incident began around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 1 when Vermont State Police (VSP) were notified of a tractor trailer in Smugglers Notch.When troopers arrived on scene, they found the ...more
A Canadian truck driver was taken into custody after he was caught with marijuana and ketamine hidden in his trailer last week. Truck driver Ajaypal Dhillon was found with over 2,092 pounds of marijuana and over 112 pounds of ketamine hidden in boxes inside of his trailer, reported The Buffalo News. The contraband was found during ...more
Two people were ejected from a semi truck after wrecking on Rabbit Ears Pass on Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened on August 2nd in Routt County, Colorado between County Road 20 and Forest Service Road 296, seven miles east of Steamboat Springs. According to Steamboat Pilot News, the semi truck was traveling west on US 40 when ...more
Eaton's headquarters in Dublin. CEO Craig Arnold said Eaton is in a good position to handle a downturn should one arrive, but "our thinking around recession continues to be pushed out." (Eaton Corp.) Eaton Corp. posted net income of $744 million in the second quarter of 2023, a 23.8% increase compared with a $601 million ...more
