Michael Niss of East Dundee, Illinois, keeps on trucking, plugging away at his plan to one day roll along on North America’s highways in a rig that gets at least 11 mpg. In June, Niss told The Courier-News he had taken six months off from his job as a truck driver, using his own semi running long-distance routes, in part to work on his startup project, Breaking 11. His truck’s low-ride flatbed with its lightweight tarpaulin cover has been adorned with a logo for the project and to promote a related Breaking11.com website.
