When a pandemic gets personal, or ‘Why I wear a mask’
Long Haul Paul celebrates the lives and accomplishments of two friends, Carlin Henry Shanks (83) and John Runyon (43), stricken by COVID-19, and offers his own version of Pascal’s Wager to illustrate just why he chooses to wear the mask.
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Proterra Names New President for Powered and Energy Team
As president of Proterra Powered and Energy, Gareth Joyce will lead Proterra’s growing business as a provider of its electric vehicle technology to commercial manufacturers and charging infrastructure solutions for heavy-duty electric fleets.
Lordstown’s Endurance Pickup to Begin Production in Sept. 2021
Full production will ramp up in 2022. The company is set to open a service center in Irvine, Calif. and a satellite research and development center in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Emergency funds available for I-75/71 bridge repairs
Feds will send $12 million
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2 novices get lessons in how to drive a truck
They learn how hard truckers have to work
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SCE Starts Testing Battery-Electric Freightliner eCascadia
The primary electricity supply company for much of southern California, added a Freightliner eCascadia from the Freightliner Customer Experience (CX) Fleet to begin a three-month testing trial
Driver honored for stopping man’s suicide attempt
Canadian trucker honored by TCA
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POLL: Is electronic mobile signature capture part of your protocol with receivers?
With the COVID-19 pandemic, signature-capture technologies on documents sent between devices have made their way more extensively into the operator-receiver interaction to limit personal contact. Do you have such a system in place yourself, whether a f…
CDC reiterates COVID-19 guidance for long-haul truckers
Issues hygiene reminders
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Cows die in tractor-trailer crash on I-81 in NY
Driver has minor injuries
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