The Brookings County Sheriffs Office (BCSO) out of South Dakota is warning truckers to be on the alert following a report of multiple individuals attempting to open semi truck doors in a business lot. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on June 21 in a business parking lot in the 200 block of Industrial Drive ...more
A truck driver is facing multiple felony charges after getting distracted while driving and causing a deadly wreck last summer. The accident happened back in June 2022, and resulted in two deaths and left five injured. A plea agreement for 27-year-old truck driver Chasen Thompson was accepted in court this week. According to WNDU News, the ...more
A video featuring an older truck driver recently went viral, with thousands of people sharing words of respect for the man’s work ethic and skill. TikTok user th3asphaltcowboy shared video of the truck driver at work preparing his vehicle less than a week ago, and in that time, the video has garnered 3.6 million views.@th3asphaltcowboy ...more
On Thursday, a major self-driving truck technology company announced a new partnership to launch the “world’s first trucking company dedicated to autonomous freight transportation. On June 22, Kodiak Robotics Inc. announced that Denver-headquartered logistics platform Loadsmith ordered 800 self-driving trucks to build the “Loadsmith Freight Network (LFN), the first-ever freight transportation company built specifically for ...more
Officials have confirmed that a semi truck went over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon. The incident happened around 1:50 p.m. on June 22 at the 1 mile marker on the CBBT. Officials say that a semi truck crashed off the west side of the northbound span ...more
Trucker tensions reach an all time high in this parking lot video. In the clip, two drivers are having an argument, getting in each other’s faces, and nearly getting into a physical fight in the parking lot of a truck stop during the day. At one point, one of the drivers walks away, but the other ...more
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a joint notice about a planned rule to require automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems on heavy-duty trucks. The June 22 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) would require AEB systems on heavy vehicles, i.e., vehicles ...more
A field of flowering canola plants. (CanolaInfo) Eyeing the trucking industry, U.S. canola producers are seeking to expand their output since the Environmental Protection Agency recently OK’d the plant oil be included among acceptable biofuels in its green energy renewable fuel standard program. Canola is a type of edible rapeseed from the mustard family that ...more
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) NEW YORK — The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on June 21 for what it called a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western ...more
A battery is changed on an electric vehicle at Ample headquarters. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) More than a decade ago, a high-flying startup called Better Place made a billion-dollar bet that electric car drivers would prefer to swap depleted batteries for fresh ones in minutes rather than charge them for hours. At the time, most EVs ...more
