The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is on the lookout for a suspected former truck driver who is slashing semi truck tires. FHP says that there have been recent six instances of semi truck tire slashing in Columbia County. The acts of vandalism have taken place near Lake City off of I-10, I-75, and S.R. 47.WCJB ...more
A police officer was hurt on Monday evening after being thrown into a sinkhole by an out-of-control tractor trailer. The incident occurred on the evening of June 26th in Fayetteville, North Carolina. According to CBS 17 News, a sinkhole opened up on U.S. 401, near Seventy-First Middle and High School, forcing a closure of the roadway. ...more
New York police have cited a truck driver who lost control and wound up in a creek in New Hartford last month. The incident occurred on May 24 as 39 year old truck driver Frederick Swinea was eastbound on Red Hill Road.According to the New Hartford Police Department, Swinea failed to stop at a stop ...more
A man was arrested in Washington over the weekend after threatening a sleeping driver with a knife and then fleeing a group of angry truckers. The incident occurred after 8 p.m. on June 24th in Moses Lake, Washington at Ernie’s Truck Stop near the I-90/SR 17 interchange. According to Source One News, a trucker was resting ...more
Screenshot of shopping center in Somerset County, N.J. With AI assistance, fleets can pull in precise routing and ETA calculations, factoring in weather and traffic conditions in real time. (Trimble) The incorporation of artificial intelligence in transportation management systems (TMS) is changing how the systems work and how trucking companies and their partners use them ...more
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other officials mark the beginning of construction to replace the Chain of Rocks Bridge. (Illinois Department of Transportation via Flickr) Illinois officials recently held a ceremony along Interstate 270 as construction started on a project with Missouri to replace the aging Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River with twin ...more
Volvo VNR. Volvo AB is aiming for 100% of its global sales of new trucks to be electric by 2040. (Volvo Trucks North America) Companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Nike Inc. are calling for the European Union to implement stricter emissions targets for trucks, which the firms say will lower costs in the long run. ...more
A cross section of a lithium battery pack. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News) A new U.S. plant will soon offer a solution for tight supplies of critical metals: Pull them out of dead batteries in a process that produces fewer emissions than competitors. Recycling startup Nth Cycle is opening its first full-scale plant in Fairfield, Ohio, to ...more
Evan Burroughs displays a trcking device for Oregon's pilot program that charges motorists by the distance their vehicle travels. (Andrew Selsky/AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Evan Burroughs has spent eight years touting the virtues of an Oregon pilot program charging motorists by the distance their vehicle travels rather than the gas it guzzles, yet his own ...more
A Lion electric school bus. (Eric Gay/AP/File) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding almost $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories. The grants will enable transit agencies and state and local governments to buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses, ...more
