USA Trucking

EV weight is a serious safety issue, says NTSB chair

As the popularity of electric vehicles grows, safety leaders are concerned that road injuries could increase due to how much heavier battery-powered cars are over their gas-guzzling predecessors.
In a keynote address Wednesday at the Transportation Res…

EV mass is a serious safety issue, says NTSB chair

As the popularity of electric vehicles grows, safety leaders are concerned that road injuries could increase due to how much heavier battery-powered cars are over their gas-guzzling predecessors.
In a keynote address Wednesday at the Transportation Res…

Brothers charged after trying to hide stolen food truck

© Provided by WAVE Louisville Jessie Smith, 38, and Jordan Michael Smith, 34, both of Louisville, are charged with receiving stolen property in the theft of a food truck.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Two man have been charged with receiving stolen propert…

Semi-truck crashes into New Kensington Giant Eagle

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (KDKA) – A semi-truck crashed into a Giant Eagle in New Kensington. 
The truck left behind a giant hole that has since been boarded up after the crash early Wednesday evening.
© Provided by CBS Pittsburgh A semi-truck crashed …

Truck driver involved in Tennessee train derailment charged

COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. (AP) — The driver of a semi-truck involved in a Tennessee train derailment that left two train workers injured has been charged.
© Provided by Knoxville WVLT-TV A train derailed in Chattanooga on Tuesday, Dec. 20, after hitting a br…

Trucking technologies take center stage at CES 2023

LAS VEGAS—Each year, tech companies from around the world gather in Las Vegas to showcase their latest innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Recently, the commercial vehicle industry has had quite the footprint at CES, and this year …

US Flight Chaos Puts Harsh Spotlight on FAA After Tense Year

(Bloomberg) — An overlooked software flaw is opening up US aviation authorities to new scrutiny over the resiliency of the systems that keep the nation’s planes moving.
© Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty Images North America ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – JANUAR…

Car Torn Apart, Pickup Truck Damaged in NJ Crash

A mangled car wound up on a front yard and a damaged pickup truck wound up in the road in an overnight crash in Camden County, New Jersey.
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It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were hurt in the wreck along East Spr…

Damaged database file ‘delayed almost 10,000’ US flights

Almost 10,000 flights across the US are estimated to have been delayed and 1,300 cancelled due to Wednesday’s computer glitch.
Flights started to resume at around 9am US eastern standard time after the early morning outage blamed on a damaged database …