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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Close Call: A turkey flew through this semi’s windshield on 35E today. The driver of the truck and the turkey are ok. After removing the bird, the turkey went back into a wooded area as nothing happened.
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A tanker truck carrying 4,000 gallons of jet fuel overturned on the Interstate 70 ramp near Interstate 465 at about 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 20, causing a huge fire and tying up traffic in and near Indianapolis.
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Two truck drivers were among the three people killed in last week’s massive pileups on Interstate 80 in Wyoming, and a new video shows part of one of the collisions as it unfolded.
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Trucker in the city of Huzhou in Zhejiang Province caught a car while making a right-hand turn with a very oversized load.
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GDS Express Group Inc. of Akron, Ohio, filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 27, stating that its revolving credit line was closed. The company had shuttered operations just days before Christmas.
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As e-commerce takes an ever-larger share of total retail sales, the strategy and execution of delivery networks will become the axis of success. Regardless of the industry, logistics will increasingly be the difference between an enterprise’s success or failure.
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Texas-based flatbed and oilfield truckload carrier Fleetwood Transportation hauled its last loads on Tuesday after deciding to shutter operations, citing insurance costs.
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A federal judge has handed down a temporary restraining order blocking the Jan. 1 implementation of California’s AB5 against motor carriers. AB5 is the law restricting the ability of independent operators — including truck drivers — to operate in the state.
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After 43 years in California, truck drivers Brian Gray and his wife, Karol, packed up their belongings and headed to Oklahoma in early December after news that the new sweeping labor law, AB5, was set to take effect on Jan. 1.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety has provided updates on the conditions of the state trooper and the driver of a white pickup after a semi-truck crashed into a pileup in foggy conditions on Friday, injuring the trooper who tried to escape the careening semi, and crushing the pickup with the driver still inside.
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One day after impeaching President Donald Trump, the Democratic-led House passed one of his signature priorities, a rewrite of the 25-year-old free trade agreement he blames for shipping U.S. manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
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The FMCSA announces that it is increasing the minimum annual percentage rate for random controlled substances testing for drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) requiring a commercial driver's license (CDL) from the current rate of 25 percent of the average number of driver positions to 50 percent of the average number of driver positions, effective in calendar year 2020.
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