A new distracted driving law goes into effect in Michigan next week — here’s what truck drivers need to know to avoid a costly fine and community service penalty. Effective June 30, 2023, a new “hands-free” driving law will go into effect in Michigan, building upon existing state laws that forbid texting behind the wheel.Drivers ...more
A truck driver was caught on camera taking matters to his own hands during a climate change protest road blockade in Australia this week. Protesters gathered to block the Port of Brisbane Motorway, using their bodies and cars to impede traffic. Clearly fed up with the roadblock, a truck driver can be seen leaving his ...more
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 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
“Winning the battery manufacturing race for electric vehicles is the moonshot of the 21st century,” Rep. Haley Stevens said. (Melissa Lyttle/Bloomberg) The U.S. needs to make up ground lost to Chinese battery makers and dominate the next generation of the technology, a bipartisan group of lawmakers said after meeting the chief executives of Ford Motor ...more
An air bag unit in a Toyota vehicle. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg) DETROIT — A company that makes air bag inflators that have exploded in eight incidents involving two deaths and seven injuries argued June 20 that it can’t say for sure whether its inflators might cause further such incidents. In a reply to the National Highway ...more
Cars at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Tesla Inc. is poised to remain the top seller of electric vehicles in the U.S. through at least 2026 as it benefits from renewed sales momentum sparked by a recent discounting binge, according to a new report. The automaker’s models should account for 18% ...more
Lorenso Ramos says he wants to compete at the level of Robert Dolan, the 1991 grand champion who is considered a master of the straight truck. (Eugene Mulero/Transport Topics) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey has a new best-in-show. Lorenso Ramos of XPO, competing in the straight truck class, conquered a challenging course en route ...more
