Trucking companies ordered the lowest number of truck trailers on record in April, according to freight forecasting firm FTR.
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Uber is laying off 3,000 employees in the latest round of COVID-19-inspired cost-cutting, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to staff… The ride-hailing company has seen an 80 percent drop in its ride-hailing business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Department of Transportation on Thursday issued new guidance for truck drivers, who have been a critical force keeping the U.S. economy moving throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pennsylvania state police are trying to capture a large bird, apparently an emu, that has gotten loose on Route 422 near the Collegeville exit. (And no, we are not making this up.)
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A California man allegedly climbed under a truck transporting wine and guzzled the alcohol as the vehicle sped along a highway.
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Note to self, provided that self owns a gleaming Ferrari and also has potentially disgruntled employees with access to 18-wheelers: Never piss off one of your truckers, especially if he or she has an axe to grind and several tons of machinery at their disposal.
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A motor vehicle accident that occurred Thursday (May 7, 2020) shortly before 12:30 p.m. in the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 422, between its Collegeville and Royersford interchanges, caused a tractor-tanker hauling hot tar to spill its load into the highway’s center median and brought a dozen first-responder teams to the scene, according to the Royersford Fire Department website.
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Iowa police arrested a former long-haul trucker for allegedly killing three women in Tennessee and Wyoming nearly 30 years ago — and are looking at his possible connections to other unsolved slayings, officials said Thursday.
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In all the years Chevy has sold Silverados and Ford trafficked in F-150s, few in Detroit ever dreamed the day would come that pickups would outsell passenger cars.
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Tesla confirmed that the production of the Tesla Semi, its electric semi truck, has been delayed until 2021 — now making the vehicle program two years behind schedule. At the unveiling of the Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker said that the electric truck would be coming in 2019, but the vehicle has since been pushed to “low-volume production in late 2020.”
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The transportation of goods and services is crucial to the success of any economy, but one of the most important aspects of the industry is quickly declining. The number of truck drivers, especially over the road truck drivers, is in decline nationwide and its effects are being felt locally.
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It’s a car chase like you’ve never seen before. A man whose truck had been stolen chased it down — in his family’s helicopter!
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