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
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A wreck involving a train and two semi trucks is being blamed on vegetation and overgrown trees restricting visibility. The crash happened on Wednesday, May 10th in Rosedale, Maryland at a railroad crossing along Lake Drive and is the fourth train collision at that crossing since 1988. “The trucks who come in and out of this ...more
The Decatur County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) in Indiana has taken a teenager into custody in connection with a rock throwing incident that left a truck driver injured last month. DCSO says that two minors were identified as suspect in the rock throwing case, according to WRTV. One of the minors, a sixteen year old, was ...more
A Canadian court ruled in favor of a semi truck driver who sued after police allegedly beat and Tased him in the cab of his vehicle in 2016. This week, a court in British Columbia ruled in favor of truck driver Bradley Degen, 52, following a three week trial.Degan was awarded more than $317,000 after ...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
