No one was was hurt after a semi truck slipped on slick roads and crashed into a house in Minnesota on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on December 20th at around 7 p.m. shortly after it started snowing. “The road on the church hill got slick, it was snow-covered when we got there on scene,” said Hokah ...more
Certain vehicles will not be permitted to travel on the Indiana Toll Road starting on Thursday due to an impending winter storm. Starting on Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 5 p.m. (EST) through until Saturday, December 24, 2022 at midnight, a winter weather travel ban will be in place on the Indiana Toll Road for ...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
One person is dead after a pickup truck crashes head on into a semi truck in Utah on Tuesday morning. The accident happened on December 20th in Box Elder County near Logan, Utah at around 1 a.m. According to KSLTV News, the pickup truck was heading west on Route 30 when it crossed into the eastbound ...more
The U.S. Postal Service will spend nearly $10 billion for new electric vehicles in a push to make its mail delivery fleet more environmentally friendly. The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028, according to a statement Dec. 20. That represents about a quarter of USPS’s current level, and ...more
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders unveiled a governmentwide $1.7 trillion spending package early Dec. 20 that includes another large round of aid to Ukraine, a nearly 10% boost in defense spending and roughly $40 billion to assist communities across the country recovering from drought, hurricanes and other natural disasters. The bill, which runs for 4,155 pages, ...more
Truck tonnage inched up year-over-year in November, but for the second consecutive time declined on a month-to-month basis amid a tepid seasonal environment, American Trucking Associations said with the release of its monthly For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index. The index rose 0.8% compared with November 2021, but declined 2.5% compared with October. This followed a 1.2% ...more
Amazon.com Inc. settled European Union antitrust investigations over how the U.S. ecommerce giant allegedly abused rivals’ sales data to unfairly favor it own products and squeeze out other traders on its platform. The European Commission said Dec. 20 it accepted a number of proposals from Amazon, including a vow to stop using nonpublic data on ...more
Magna International Inc. has agreed to buy a driver-assistance unit from SSW Partners for about $1.5 billion following a drawn-out battle to control previous parent Veoneer Inc. The purchase will complement the Canadian-Austrian automotive supplier’s advanced driver-assistance business with combined sales expected to reach $3 billion in 2024, Magna said Dec. 20. The cash acquisition ...more
