An alleged “trucker Florida boycott” is not as widespread as mainstream media reports would lead you to believe, a poll of truck drivers has revealed. Last week, Florida Governor Ron Desantis signed a bill enforcing new penalties and restrictions for undocumented immigrants in the state. These new rules include requiring employers to make sure their ...more
A construction worker is dead after being thrown from a boom lift in Arizona on Thursday morning. The accident occurred on May 18th at around 1:30 a.m. in Guadalupe, Arizona on westbound I-10 at Guadalupe Road. According to a statement from the Arizona Department of Public Safety “in the area of the collision the #1 and ...more
A Target store in Chicago. Adjusted earnings totaled $2.05 a share during Q1. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News) Target Corp. stood by its annual outlook after posting higher-than-expected profit in the first quarter, even as “softening sales trends” threaten to crimp short-term results. Robust sales in food, beauty products and household essentials are offsetting flagging demand for ...more
Elon Musk (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk said the electric carmaker will dabble in advertisements, a major shift for the company that has largely avoided traditional marketing. “We’ll try a little advertising and see how it goes,” Musk said May 16 at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, in response to an investor’s question. ...more
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration analysis did not show an increase in overall crash trends the year after the HOS rule was amended. (traveler1116/Getty Images) Amendments to the hours-of-service rule that went into effect in late 2020 may have increased flexibility for truck drivers, but the percentage of HOS violations rose “significantly higher” the ...more
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey cuts a ribbon to signal the start of a renewable diesel production facility in Mobile. (Business Wire) Alabama has taken steps toward building the state’s first renewable diesel production facility in Mobile using soybean oil from state farmers to make low-carbon fuel. The renewable diesel fuel produced there can be seamlessly ...more
A view of storefronts in downtown Marshall, Mich. (J. Scott Park/mlive.com via Tribune Content Agency) A historic town could find new life in the electric vehicle revolution — at least that’s what downtown business owners are hoping. Advocates for Ford’s $3.5 billion electric vehicle lithium-ion battery plant in Marshall, Mich., say the 2,500 jobs it ...more
In a previous announcement, the company in November said 650 employees would lose their jobs. (C.H. Robinson) Logistics company C.H. Robinson is cutting another 300 employees, the second round of layoffs in seven months. “This impacted colleagues across the company, but primarily in shared services and non-engineering technology roles,” said Duncan Burns, C.H. Robinson’s chief ...more
A semi truck’s bump into a fire hydrant sparked a mudslide in San Diego on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on May 16th in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, California at 7:30 a.m. According to NBC San Diego, California Highway Patrol was called when a semi truck struck a fire hydrant, causing a torrent of ...more
A couple was caught attempting to smuggle cocaine in a prosthetic pregnant belly after nearly crashing into a semi truck last month. The couple was caught on April 12th in Anderson County, South Carolina after they were pulled over for “zigzagging in between lanes” and nearly hitting a semi truck, an Anderson County Sheriff’s Office ...more
