Norfolk Southern OMAHA, Neb. — The union that represents railroad engineers finally secured its first deal for paid sick time with Norfolk Southern, several months after other rail unions began reaching similar agreements with the major freight railroads. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen announced the deal with the railroad May 18. Roughly 3,300 ...more
(Getty Images) A Texas state court has denied an appeal by Werner Enterprises Inc. of an $89.7 million jury verdict in a case involving a 2014 fatal crash. “We have inspected the record and find no error in the judgment,” seven of the nine justices wrote in a May 18 opinion. “We order the judgment ...more
A Tesla store in Corte Madera, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News) The Biden administration has dropped, for now, a plan that would have awarded automakers such as Tesla Inc. credits for using renewable natural gas to power electric vehicles. That proposal was excluded from drafted regulation setting biofuel-blending quotas for the next three years that ...more
The reimagined welcome center on Interstate 70 eastbound in Preble County, Ohio. (Ohio Department of Transportation) Ohio transportation officials will add truck parking when possible in a massive four-year renovation to rebuild 33 rest areas at 17 locations in project recently announced by Gov. Mike DeWine. In a ceremony unveiling a revamped Preble County Welcome ...more
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the Thomas Laubach Research Conference on May 19. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press) WASHINGTON — Chair Jerome Powell indicated May 19 that the Federal Reserve likely will forgo an increase in its benchmark interest rate when it meets in June for the first time since it began raising its key rate ...more
Shopping carts in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Rohnert Park, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via Bloomberg News) Walmart Inc. shares are far outshining those of Target Corp. and other retail peers, as Wall Street anticipates the shopping behemoth’s broad array of household necessities will offer more shelter from slowing economic growth. One ...more
A trucker’s dash cam footage shows the moments before a motorist ignored the rules of the road and drove straight into the path of the moving semi truck. The accident happened on Thursday morning, May 18th in Fresno County, California on Highway 33. The dash cam shows the car driving straight through the stop signs, flashing ...more
Seven people are dead after a serious wreck in Oregon involving two tractor trailers and a van. The accident occurred at about 2:05 p.m. on Thursday, May 18th near Albany, Oregon. According to AP News, the crash happened in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 north of Albany near the Santiam rest area. The incident is ...more
More than 30 TVs were stolen out of the back of a parked semi truck as the driver slept early on Friday morning. It happened at about 1 a.m. on May 19th in the 2700 block of Commerce Way in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to CBS, the trucker told police he was parked mere feet from ...more
A building exploded in West Virginia on Friday morning when a reversing tractor trailer backed into it. The incident occurred on May 19th at 6 a.m. on Circle Drive in Baxter. According to WDTV 5 News, the truck driver was backing up to dump a load of gravel when they accidentally hit the side of a ...more
