Take off the gag
Take off the gag Comments About 30 union members staged a sit-in at the New Jersey Turnpike Authority board meeting last week after Transportation Commissioner James Simpson refused to give them a date to resume negotiations on a union counterproposal …
Girl dies in bus wreck
A shroud of heavy fog contributed to a deadly collision Friday morning between a school bus packed with students and a tractor-trailer. The bus driver didn’t see the truck driver, and the trucker didn’t see the bus until it was too late, said Sgt.
4 dead in crash of small plane at NM airport
Four people died Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at Roswell’s airport, authorities said.
Leased operator wins photo contest
Alan Dunham’s fuel islands photo shot in Oklahoma. This sunset, witnessed ‘at the trailing edge of what were tornado-like forces running across Oklahoma on July 5, 2010,’ says the photographer, owner-operator Alan Dunham, leased to C.R. England, ‘is on…
Southwest Airlines grounds 81 planes after emergency
Southwest Airlines grounded 81 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet for inspection after one of its planes with a gaping hole in the fuselage made an emergency landing at a military base in Arizona on Friday, the company said on Saturday.
Preacher has mobile congregation at Ala truck stop
Published: Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. Each afternoon, at Oasis Travel Center off Interstate 10, the Rev.
Refrigeration unit monitoring
The FuelCheck ultrasonic monitoring option for Vector and X2 Series trailer refrigeration units is designed to help reduce operating costs and protect the integrity of the cold chain by alerting drivers when low-fuel situations could lead to a system shutdown. It also enables fuel-consumption tracking.
CARRIER TRANSICOLD, trucktrailer.carrier.com
1 in 5 air traffic control trainees wash out
More than one in five of air traffic controllers hired by the Federal Aviation Administration in recent years washed out before finishing their training, said a report released Friday by a government watchdog.
Loser Deal: Electric 500C Will Cost Fiat $10K Per Sale
Despite carrying a pricetag in excess of $40,000, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne insists that Fiat will lose as much as $10,000 for each of the upcoming (2013) electric 500Cs it sells, adding that “the economics of EVs simply don’t work. On the 500 th…
Truckers Say EOBR Bill Will Not Make Highways Safer
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association responded to the announcement by U.S. Senators Mark Pryor and Lamar Alexander that they were introducing a bill to mandate electronic on-board recorders for interstate commercial motor carriers.