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Getty Kris Wright will no longer drive for Niece Motorsports. Niece Motorsports has made a change for the remainder of the 2022 season. The Camping World Truck Series team and driver Kris Wright have parted ways after 17 races. Questions about Wright’s status with the team surfaced on August 8 with the release...
Getty Rajah Caruth will return to the Truck Series. Rev Racing’s Rajah Caruth is about to make his return to a national NASCAR series. The ARCA Menards Series championship contender will make his second start in the Camping World Truck Series at Richmond Raceway. Caruth announced the news on August 7 before the...
SELF-DRIVING startup Pony.ai has announced its plans to create an autonomous truck brand in China through a partnership with the manufacturer Sany Heavy Industry. Small-scale robotruck deliveries are slated to begin this year, with mass production scheduled for 2024. 2Pony.ai robotruck side shotCredit: Pony.ai Pony.ai plans to manufacture 10,000 Level Four autonomous robotrucks annually within...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with causing the deaths in 2019 of seven members of a Marine motorcycle club will open Tuesday, more than three years after the crash in northern New Hampshire. Jurors visited the crash scene Monday and traced Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s route from an auto dealership...
Getty The Camping World Truck Series playoff field is official. The Camping World Truck Series drivers completed the regular-season finale at Pocono Raceway with Chandler Smith reaching Victory Lane after a dominant effort. Now the field is set for the seven-race playoffs. When the Truck Series head to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park,...
Over 100 truck drivers showed up at the Port of Oakland on Monday, not to move cargo but to protest a state labor law that could end their independence — and their livelihood. The truck drivers — independent owner-operators who work for themselves — temporarily held up other trucks trying to enter the port to...
In this article WMT XPO UPS JBHT A Walmart truck departs the company's distribution center in Washington, Utah.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn April, Walmart made headlines by announcing that it will pay its private fleet truck drivers as much as $110,000 in their first year with the big-box retailer, up from an average...
Getty Matt DiBenedetto is not happy with the Truck Series drivers. The driver of the No. 25 Rackley W.A.R. Chevrolet Silverado is not happy with his fellow competitors. Matt DiBenedetto has made some angry comments about “stupidity” in the Camping World Truck Series after a wreck ended his night early at Nashville Superspeedway....
Getty The NASCAR weekend at Phoenix Raceway will feature some changes. The sanctioning body has made some changes for the championship weekend at Phoenix Raceway. NASCAR has moved the ARCA Menards Series West championship race one day earlier and shifted the time of the Camping World Truck Series race. Phoenix Raceway and NASCAR...
Getty The Cup Series race at Sonoma will feature packed grandstands. NASCAR is back at Sonoma Raceway on June 11-12, the first weekend at the California track since 2019 to feature a full capacity crowd. The expectation is that the road course race will have a celebratory atmosphere, and Sonoma Raceway’s executives are...
Getty AJ Allmendinger will start from the rear at WWTR. The Cup Series takes on World Wide Technology Raceway for the first time on June 5. Two drivers — AJ Allmendinger and Parker Kligerman — will have to start from the rear of the field after practice incidents caused damage to their respective...
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – A section of C-470 was shut down for westbound drivers at around 6 p.m. on Friday. Colorado State Patrol says a concrete truck rolled over between the Morrison and Alameda exits. (credit: CDOT) It appears on a Colorado Department of Transportation camera that traffic is getting by on the right...
Of the 721 USD students who participated in the study, more than a third of drivers admitted they were speeding during the act, another third acknowledged that they had drifted out of their lane, and 11% revealed that they let go of the steering wheel. There were 2% of drivers engaged in sexual activities that...
Sponsored by: Ruane Attorneys at Law According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), the United States has a shortfall of over 80,000 truck drivers with the possibility of getting to 160,000 by 2030. The driver shortfall is causing more supply chain disruptions and generating worry across the trucking industry. Once a country lacks drivers...
Getty Rain could disrupt part of the Charlotte schedule. The three national NASCAR series and the ARCA Menards Series return to Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 27-29 for a special weekend. The Xfinity Series and Cup Series races should take place without issues, but thunderstorms could disrupt the Friday schedule. According to Weather.com,...
This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A year ago, State Highway Administration worker Ronnie Wright’s truck was rammed by pickup truck. Although the incident hasn’t changed the way he approaches his job, it’s not something he’s eager to experience again. A...
A CLASH between truck drivers on a Tennessee highway turned deadly on Friday, after one of the men shot and killed the other. The deadly road rage incident was triggered after pair of commercial truck collided as their drivers were traveling along the Interstate 81 through the town of Kingsport. 2A fatal shooting took...
SOUTH JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) -- Police are searching for the driver of a truck who hit a woman in Queens and fled the scene Sunday morning.EMS responded to a 911 call at 8:35 a.m. about a person under a car near the intersection of 120th Avenue and 167 Street in South Jamaica, Queens.When they arrive...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore trucker James Green says making a living as an independent truck driver has been difficult lately. “I’m making enough just to pay for gas and possibly pay the bills on my truck,” he said. High gas prices are making his trips hauling goods up and down the east coast much more expensive...
RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) — Sacramento County is hosting a hiring event to look for people willing to do the dirty work that many don’t want to do. Hector Guijarro has ten years of experience driving a garbage truck. He’s now applying for a job as a senior collection operator with Sacramento County. READ MORE: Suspicious...
Getty Ben Rhodes (front) showed off the race-winning strategies. The Camping World Truck Series took on the dirt version of Bristol Motor Speedway on April 16, officially kicking off a unique race weekend. The reigning champ returned to Victory Lane while rebounding from a surprising mistake. The winner of Stage 1, ThorSport Racing’s...
TOW truck companies have been holding cars for ransom and impersonating their legitimate counterparts. The vast majority of the reports have been from the Chicago area. They range in severity from charging an extra few hundred dollars for people to pick their cars up to tow truck drivers impersonating local officials. 2Some tow truck...
(CNN)Commercial traffic at Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge -- a major port of entry for the US-Mexico border that handles both commercial and passenger vehicles -- is "halted temporarily" due to an ongoing protest on the Mexican side of the border and there are "no southbound movements by US carriers," a US Customs and Border Protection official...
You have heard it often: blaming supply chain issues for those empty grocery shelves and delayed birthday gift shipments. But a new bipartisan bill in the House is looking to cut down on one supply chain issue. In 2021, 72% of U.S. goods were moved by truck, and right now there is a shortage of...
Walmart has been forced to dramatically increase the starting salaries of truck drivers in order to keep the retailer's supply chain going after the industry shed 4,900 drivers in a single year. The nation's largest retailer has also launched a retraining program to give employees who work in its distribution centers the chance to become...
New York (CNN Business)Walmart is raising pay for long-haul truck drivers, a taxing job that is increasingly difficult for companies to fill.Walmart (WMT), one of the few retail chains that runs its own trucking fleet, said it's raising the average starting salary for first-year drivers from around $88,000 to a range of $95,000 to $110,000.Walmart...
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart workers who once unloaded trucks now have a chance to drive them. The nation’s largest retailer has launched a training program that gives employees who work in its distribution or fulfillment centers a chance to become certified Walmart truck drivers through a 12-week program taught by the company’s established drivers....
A Walmart truck departs the company's distribution center in Washington, Utah.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart said Thursday that it is raising pay for truck drivers and launching a new program to train the next generation, as it seeks the staffing it relies on to replenish store shelves and warehouses across the country. The...
06 January 2022, US, Las Vegas: Robotic truck company Aurora shows off a self-driving semi-truck at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. In the Corona pandemic, interest in autonomous freight transport increased. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Self-driving startup Aurora Innovation has gone trucking in Texas. Aurora announced Wednesday that it has...
DRIVERS might get confused when a trucker flashes their lights at them on the highway. But in most cases, the big rig drivers could be passing on important information to you. 2Trucks flash their lights to notify other drivers of any attention-requiring events nearbyCredit: Getty Images When trucks flash their headlights or hazard lights, it...
Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden will tout his administration's investments in the trucking industry during a White House event on Monday. The President and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will highlight the administration's "Trucking Action Plan," which was unveiled last year. The plan focuses on "building supply chain resilience through better quality trucking jobs," White House assistant...
A TERRIFYING moment captured on camera shows frantic drivers jumping out of the path of an out-of-control tractor-trailer after a snow squall battered the region. The wild incident was sparked by a 60 vehicle pileup that left five dead on Interstate 81 in Minersville, Schuylkill County, in Pennslyvania on Monday. 5A massive snow squall battered...
Terrified drivers who escaped a 60-vehicle pile-up on a Pennsylvania interstate Monday morning claim white-out conditions came out of nowhere and were followed by sounds of explosions. 'All of a sudden it was just noise – car hitting car, truck, explosion. Something blew up back there with that big fire. It was just terrible, unbelievable,'...
Sneaky New Yorkers taking advantage of a city clear-air initiative are making up to $225,000-a-year by reporting idling trucks to the city, then claiming a cut of the $350 fine. Leaving a truck engine idling for more than three minutes is an offense in NYC, with anyone who submits video proof to the Department of...
By The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Angry truck drivers have confronted a group of activists at the Polish-Belarusian border crossing trying to stop goods from transiting into Russia-allied Belarus. Activists have for days been protesting peacefully at the border against the continued flow of goods across the border from Poland into Belarus. The trade...
As the truck convoy/protest in and around D.C. wraps up its second workweek, delays are building for commuters in the region as Friday afternoon lengthens. All eastbound exits on the Southeast/Southwest Freeway were closed as of 1:45 p.m., said Dave Dildine in the WTOP Traffic Center, including the ramp from the 11th Street Bridge to...
Illinois Secretary of State proposes cutting training hours required for commercial driver's license
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Despite having one of the better safety records for commercial drivers in the country, Illinois recently considered rolling back requirements for many truck and bus drivers.The I-Team began looking into this question of safety last month when we learned that Illinois Secretary of State officials had, in writing, a proposed plan to...
EAGLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 at Eagle are expected to reopen at around 1 p.m. on Sunday. They were closed at 8 a.m. in order for road crews to remove an overturned semi truck. (credit: Colorado State Patrol) The closure was planned as Colorado State Patrol warned drivers on Friday. There is...
Companies around the country are struggling to find professional truck drivers, and the driver shortage is only expected to get worse.The American Trucking Association estimates the industry is 80,000 drivers short."We are losing more drivers than are entering the industry," said Centerline Drivers Managing Director Shane Keller, who has seen recent declines in his company.As...
Originally published March 3 SAUK CENTRE, Minn. (WCCO) — Truck drivers are caravanning across Minnesota on Interstate 94 Thursday. The “Rolling For Freedom” rally has a series of stops planned for the rest of this week. Drivers will spend Thursday night in Sauk Centre, and then roll through the Twin Cities Friday. (credit: CBS) The...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chandler Smith used a brilliant final lap Friday night to hold off both Daytona winner Zane Smith and boss Kyle Busch to win the Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was the third victory in 40 career starts for Smith, a 19-year-old from Georgia who is in...
STONEHAM (CBS) – The I-Team has learned that the state suspended the license of the truck driver involved in the crash that killed State Trooper Tamar Bucci. As for the company he worked for, PJ Murphy Transportation was fined for a 10,000-gallon fuel spill in Revere in 2020. The spill caused damage to nearby wetlands,...
Republican Senators are pushing a measure to end vaccine mandates imposed upon international truck drivers, they announced on Tuesday. The Terminating Reckless and Unnecessary Checks Known to Erode Regular Shipping (TRUCKERS) Act would specifically “exempt commercial truck drivers from Canada or Mexico who are seeking to temporarily enter the United States for business through a land...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Five Illinois State Police cruisers were struck during the winter storm on Thursday – one of them in DuPage County and four downstate, including in a 100-car pileup east of Peoria and north of Bloomington-Normal. (Credit: Illinois State Police) READ MORE: City Denies Operating Permit For Controversial Metal Shredding Plant...
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