Starting Saturday, truck drivers who travel through Kentucky will be forced to take an 82-mile detour. Beginning Saturday, August 1, at 6:30 am, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will shut down the U.S. 51 Ohio River “Cairo” Bridge. KYTC District 1 Chief Engineer Kyle Poat said: “We carefully considered about a half-dozen options for completing both ...more
Three groups have scheduled to shut down a major interstate in Chicago. The groups, the Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice, Tikkun-Chai International, and Pilsen-Humboldt Park Anti-Gentrification Group, created a Facebook event called “Black Lives Matter March: SHUT DOWN OUR DAN RYAN.” The event will take place on Saturday, August 15, at 12:00pm. The groups want ...more
Visitors will be required to wear a mask or face covering at all Love’s truck stop locations starting from 29th of July. Today, Love’s Travel Stops made the announcement that all visitors will be required to wear a mask at every Love’s Travel Stop, Love’s Country Store, Love’s Truck Care and Speedco location across the ...more
A group of protesters said they’re going to shut down Interstate 490 this Sunday. The shutdown is scheduled to occur at 2:00 pm in Rochester, New York, the Facebook event states. According to the Facebook event, the group is protesting because “Rochester police refused to have a simple conversation with us about releasing inmates with ...more
FMCSA plans to review the involvement of last-mile delivery trucks in road traffic accidents, considering the trends indicating the increased use of such vehicles in the interstate haul. Commenting on these plans during a meeting of the FMCSA's Advisory Committee on Motor Vehicle Safety (MCSAC) on Monday, FMCSA Assistant Policy Administrator Larry Minor said the ...more
Look out, drivers. North Carolina Highway Patrol has formed a team of officers to catch speeders. The team of troopers will focus on speeding and reckless driving. Troopers will use various tactics to catch speeders, including troopers on bridges using radar. According to the Charlotte Observer, the enforcement campaign begins July 20. The troopers will ...more
Per-mile spot market rates jumped in all three segments in June, according to data on rates averages from DAT.com, rallying from the March-to-April spot market crash, in which rates plummeted as shelter orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and as restocking from the March panic buying subsided. However, as noted last week in ...more
A red Tesla semi-truck was spotted in California hauling a load of Tesla Model Y and Model 3 cars. The truck was delivering Tesla cars to customers in California. In a Tweet, Elon Musk said that Tesla semi-trucks can deliver Tesla cars to within California. Special thanks to Tesla trucking & rail partners for figuratively ...more
A cross-border truck driver was arrested after trying to transport $20 million in drugs across the border from Canada into the U.S. On Monday, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced in a Tweet, “RECORD NORTHERN BORDER SEIZURE: CBP officers at the Peace Bridge Cargo Facility in Buffalo discovered more than 9,000 pounds of ...more
Officials in three northeastern states have issued travel restrictions in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. On June 24, New York Governor A. M. Cuomo, New Jersey Governor P. Murphy, and Connecticut Governor N. Lamont announced a tri-state restriction set to go into effect at midnight tonight. “All individuals traveling from states with increasing spread of ...more