A city in Virginia recently doubled the cost of fines for truck drivers violating a daily truck ban, but even non-trucking residents say the charges are a little steep for drivers just trying to do their jobs. City Council members in Norfolk, Virginia voted Tuesday to change the city code banning trucks from passing through ...more
A police pursuit ended in a double fatality collision in Yankton, South Dakota, on Wednesday. According to Yankton County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO), a police pursuit began around 10 a.m. on May 10 as the South Dakota Highway Patrol (SDHP) attempted to stop a red Chevrolet traveling east on Highway 50 for speeding at 100 m.p.h. ...more
One person is dead and a semi truck is destroyed after a wreck between a four wheeler and a semi truck at an intersection in Oklahoma on Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened on May 10th in El Reno at Route 66 and Radio Road at around 12:40 p.m.According to KFOR News, a sedan was traveling ...more
The OOIDA and other pro-trucking organizations held a hearing to discuss challenges facing the trucking industry on Wednesday. The House subcommittee called on Congress on May 10th to protect truckers on the job without imposing too many regulations on them. The committee says this protection of truckers should involve an increase in safe truck parking. “Good ...more
Police are blaming a trucker’s unfamiliarity with the area for a serious wreck that left him with injuries to his arm. The accident happened at approximately 11:52 p.m. at a roundabout in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on Wednesday, May 10th. According to the Fond Du Lac Police Department, emergency responders arrived to the area of East ...more
More than a week after the crash, Illinois State Police (ISP) have identified all of the people who lost their lives in a pileup caused by blowing dust. The pileup occurred shortly before 11 a.m. on May 1, 2023 on both northbound and southbound I-55 between mile markers 72 and 78, near Farmersville in Montgomery ...more
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) recently partnered for an enforcement campaign targeting unsafe driving in construction zones. On May 10, PSP and PennDOT released information on a five week long traffic campaign called “Operation Yellow Jacket” that took place in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania.As part of the ...more
Model 589 by Joe Howard/Transport Topics FORT WORTH, Texas — Peterbilt Motors Co. introduced its new Model 589 truck during an event at Texas Motor Speedway that included customers, dealers and media, transitioning its classically styled heritage model onto the same wider cab platform as other trucks in its lineup while staying true to the ...more
A VW ID.4 electric vehicle maneuvered into a storage bay inside an Autostadt delivery tower at Volkswagen's headquarters and auto plant complex in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News) There’s one big reason EVs are getting slightly cheaper: More of them are rolling off production lines. North American factories cranked out 219,000 battery-powered cars and trucks ...more
(U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Public comments about how to decarbonize trade and create federal incentives for sustainable supply chains are due May 22 to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection as input to an upcoming Green Trade Innovation and Incentives Forum. The forum is part of CBP’s Green Trade Strategy, launched last June, to ...more
