A motorist was trapped inside of their vehicle for over an hour after a semi truck tipped over during a turn and landed on top of the car. The accident happened on Wednesday, December 21st in Spartanburg, South Carolina. According to 7 News, the semi truck was attempting a right turn onto Blackstock Road when it ...more
A semi truck crashed into a house after losing control behind a road raging motorist in Texas on Thursday morning. The accident happened at around 8 a.m. in San Antonio, Texas near Interstate 37 and Hot Wells Boulevard.According to KSAT News, an angry driver pulled out in front of the truck and slammed on his ...more
The New York State Thruway Authority announced that two service areas will be closing for construction in the weeks to come. Starting January 1, 2023, the Ramapo service area (located on I-87 south between exit 16 and exit 15A) and the Warners service area (located on I-90 west between exit 39 and exit 40) will close ...more
White House Supply Chain Envoy Stephen Lyons says the nation’s supply chain is ending 2022 in a much better position than a year ago. In 2021, there were concerns about shortages in stores and warehouses, rapidly rising prices to ship goods and thousands of containers stacking up at the nation’s ports as railroads could not ...more
FedEx Corp. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates, lifted by price increases and cost cuts that helped make up for a decline in package volume. Shares of the delivery giant rose after the company announced an additional $1 billion of projected savings in fiscal 2023, bringing the total to about $3.7 billion. Earnings ...more
Colorado, North and South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming have declared temporary emergency exemptions of federal driving hours for deliveries of heating fuel. The Colorado State Patrol on Dec. 20 approved a temporary exemption through Jan. 31 from federal hours-of-service regulations for commercial drivers hauling consumer heating fuels, propane and natural gas. “Should it become apparent ...more
The president of Toyota Motor Corp. is publicly questioning whether the auto industry should transition as quickly to electric vehicles. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Akio Toyoda said during a recent visit to Thailand that a “silent majority” of auto executives question whether EVs should be a single option. “But they think it’s the ...more
Chicago is in the crosshairs of a powerful winter storm that could become a “bomb cyclone” — with deep snow, searing winds and an Arctic chill — threatening to disrupt Christmas travel for millions of people in the U.S. and bring a deep freeze to the eastern two-thirds of the country. While the city, a ...more
Police in Redmond, Oregon, are investigating a passenger vehicle versus pedestrian crash that claimed the life of a semi truck driver on Monday night. The incident occurred at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, December 19, 2022, on southbound Highway 97, just north of the SW Yew Ave exit (mile marker 124), in Redmond, according to the ...more
A motorist’s dash cam captured a major crash involving trucks that happened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. The incident was caught on dash cam on Parkway West by motorist Brandan Silvius during his Tuesday morning commute.In the clip, you can see that multiple vehicles in the right lane appear to brake. A white van veers to ...more
