Kenworth Truck Company is supporting one of country music’s biggest bands by providing a new big rig for their 2023 tour. On June 2, Kenworth announced that they will provide the music group Alabama with a Kenworth T680 76-inch mid-roof sleeper to help with transportation during the band’s “Roll On 2 North America Tour.”Kenworth is ...more
A person in a semi truck was seriously injured after the rig they were riding in lost its brakes in Utah late last week. The incident happened on Friday, June 2nd just after 5 p.m. in Garden City, Utah. The driver told investigators that his brakes failed on the descent from Logan Canyon into Garden City ...more
A motorist was arrested in Sarasota County, Florida, on Sunday after colliding with a semi truck while traveling the wrong way on the interstate. The crash occurred shortly before 5 a.m. on June 4.According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), 21 year old Angel Eduardo Martinez was traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-75 ...more
Love’s Travel Stops recently opened a truck wash at one of their Missouri truck stops, with more to come soon. Love’s recently announced that the new “automated system” truck wash service is available at the store located in Harrisonville, Missouri. “Keeping your truck or fleet clean shouldn’t be a burden. That’s why Love’s is expanding ...more
A truck driver narrowly avoids getting pummeled by her own truck as a train strikes it in this video. The video was filmed in Union City, Georgia on some train tracks along Watson Street on Monday, June 5th. The video shows a woman, apparently the truck driver, standing right next to the truck cab as a ...more
The Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) is asking for public help in locating a truck involved in an early morning fatal accident involving a pedestrian. Officials say that the incident occurred on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, between the hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.According to Arizona DPS, a pedestrian was fatally struck on ...more
A Tesla logo on a vehicle on display in Austin, Texas. (Eric Gay/Associated Press) Elon Musk is getting more firepower for his electric vehicle price war thanks to President Joe Biden’s signature climate legislation. Tesla Inc. and its battery partner are poised to receive about $1.8 billion in production tax credits this year under the ...more
Construction workers push a cart of bricks on March 29 in New York. (Bebeto Matthews/AP/File) WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool. The June 2 report from ...more
Walmart plans to combine multiple orders on single delivery routes and deliver them using electric vans. (Walmart Inc.) BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart announced June 1 it will take steps to significantly reduce the amount of plastic and cardboard it puts in the waste stream from online orders and reduce vehicle emissions from delivery of packages. ...more
A GMC Sierra Denali truck. GM paid nearly $90 million in fines for 2016 and more than $38 million for 2017. (Woohae Cho/Bloomberg News) General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV paid a combined $363 million in civil penalties for failing to meet U.S. fuel efficiency standards dating back to the Trump administration, according to filings ...more
