Company executives officially unveil the renovated Mack Experience Center. (Joe Howard/Transport Topics) ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Mack Trucks has opened the doors to its renovated Mack Experience Center, complete with an updated test track, redesigned meeting space and a renovated vehicle showroom that are designed to help widen customers’ access to the manufacturer’s offerings, and give ...more
The 2023 Ram ProMaster is a popular commercial vehicle but is third in U.S. sales behind offerings from GM and Ford. (Stellantis via Tribune Content Agency) The maker of Ram, Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler vehicles has set its sights on becoming the world’s top light-commercial vehicle company, but it’s going to face some major obstacles ...more
Saddle Creek Logistics Services Saddle Creek Logistics Services plans to expand its warehousing and fulfillment operations in four markets, the Lakeland, Fla.-based third-party logistics provider said. The company expects to open distribution centers in Walton, Ky., Joliet, Ill., Myerstown, Pa., and North Las Vegas, Nev., it said June 1, and as a result add in ...more
Nine delivery trucks were wrapped with the banner saying, “Biodiesel, cleaner fuel for Nebraska.” (Nebraska Soybean Board) A trucking campaign promoting biodiesel fuel to easily lower carbon emissions by the state soybean farmers has been such a success in raising awareness it may be repeated. For four months ending in April, nine delivery trucks wrapped ...more
Carlson via transportation.gov; Los Angeles highway traffic by Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was recently withdrawn from consideration, the White House announced. Ann Carlson, nominated to lead the agency, is no longer in the running for the agency’s top job, per notification from the ...more
Downtown Windsor, Ontario, at the holiday season. Windsor is the site of a proposed electric vehicle battery plant. (Steven_Kriemadis/Getty Images) Stellantis NV and LG Energy Solution Ltd. are reviewing an offer from the Canadian and Ontario governments to salvage an electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, across the border from Detroit. The carmaker and its ...more
Los Angeles police are looking for the driver of a semi truck involved in a fatal wreck with a car over the weekend. The accident happened on the early morning of June 3rd near Los Angeles, California on Lankershim Boulevard near Cayuga Avenue in Sun Valley. According to CBS News, a 26-year-old woman was driving a ...more
Pennsylvania police charged a truck driver who allegedly drove around road closure signs and into a construction area, causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage last month. Truck driver Douglas B. Harlan, 67, of Ohio, was recently charged with felony criminal mischief, according to the Observer-Reporter.The charges stem from an incident that occurred ...more
A major crash involving a loaded cattle truck was reported on Tuesday near Columbia, Missouri. The crash occurred around 10 a.m. on June 6 on the Rocheport Bridge carrying I-70 just outside of Columbia.Officials said that three passenger vehicles and two semi trucks, including a loaded cattle truck, collided in the westbound lanes of the ...more
A pedestrian was struck by a tractor trailer while walking along a highway in Massachusetts on Tuesday morning. The accident happened at around 11:10 a.m. on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Framingham on June 6th. According to CBS News, the man was struck on the eastbound side of the highway near mile marker 111. The circumstances surrounding ...more
