The Idaho State Police (ISP) are asking for public help in locating a pickup involving in a hit-and-run crash with a semi truck on I-90 earlier this month. The hit-and-run crash occurred at approximately 12:26 p.m on Friday, May 16, 2025, on westbound I-90 before the Fourth of July Pass Exit (Exit 28).ISP says that ...more
Illinois State Police (ISP) released preliminary results from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck inspection effort earlier this month. Troopers recently released results captured in Illinois during Roadcheck 2025, which took place May 13 — 16.During the three-day effort, ISP troopers conducted commercial vehicle inspections at at fixed and portable scale locations in ...more
An estimated $150,000 worth of beef was stolen from a parked tractor trailer in Philadelphia over Memorial Day weekend as both co-drivers slept. The theft happened on Monday, May 26th at the 1400 block of Warfield at 4:30 p.m. in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to NBC Philadelphia, two co-drivers were asleep in the truck between midnight ...more
A trucker was caught red-handed buying an armful of truck stop snacks for him and his dog by a man looking to interview him about hauling Ferraris. In the video, the truck driver is holding an armful of chip bags and several hot dogs when the filming man approaches him and starts to asks about ...more
Sysco Helps Restaurants Caught in Trade War
Jeff Creswell prepares dishes featuring local ingredients for a tasting at Sysco’s test kitchen in Chicago. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg) On a recent weekday morning in downtown Chicago, chefs inside a test kitchen prepared a five-course meal featuring tostada verde with jalapeño gouda and trout on focaccia. The chefs usually cook these spreads to help customers ...more
Uncertainty Clouds Truck Retail Sales Outlook for Rest of 2025
Model year 2023 sleeper tractors averaged $96,735 at auction in April, 20.5% higher than in March, according to Chris Visser of J.D. Power. (Palmer Truck Sales) Uncertainty continues to cloud the retail sales and orders outlook for truck makers for the rest of 2025, according to observers. When demand will pick up is the million-dollar ...more
Software Logistics Giant WiseTech Buys E2open for $2.1B
Richard White by Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Australian shipping software company WiseTech Global Ltd. made its biggest ever acquisition, agreeing to buy E2open Parent Holdings Inc. in a deal that values the U.S. firm at $2.1 billion. The acquisition is the first major move by founder Richard White since he assumed the role of executive chairman in ...more
Volvo Cars to Cut 3,000 Jobs to Reduce Cost
A logo on a new Volvo vehicle. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg) FRANKFURT, Germany — Sweden-based Volvo Cars is eliminating 3,000 positions as part of a cost-cutting program as the automotive industry faces challenges from trade tensions and resulting economic uncertainty. The company said May 26 that around 1,200 of the job reductions would come among workers in ...more
Trump Signals He’ll Approve Nippon Bid for US Steel
(Justin Merriman/Bloomberg News) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said May 23 that U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he called a “planned partnership” that seemed to signal that he’ll approve a bid by Japan-based Nippon Steel to make a big investment in the iconic American steelmaker, if not buy ...more
Trump Says He’ll Delay Threatened EU Tariff Until July
The U.S. and EU flags. (E4C/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said May 25 that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc. That agreement came after a call with Ursula von der ...more