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☆ Driver of truck involved in Florida bus crash that killed 8 farm workers arrested
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Rebekah Riess | Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The driver of the pickup truck involved in a Tuesday crash that killed eight people and left more than 40 injured in north-central Florida has been arrested and charged with eight counts of DUI manslaughter, according to a news release from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The 2010 International Bus carrying “approximately 53 farm workers” and a 2001 Ford Ranger sideswiped each other around 6:35 a.m., about 15 miles west of Ocala, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement. The Ford, “for unknown reasons, traveled toward the center line” before the vehicles struck each other, Lt. Patrick Riordan of the Florida Highway Patrol said at a news conference at the scene. The bus then left the roadway, went through a fence and overturned. There’s no reason for me to be involved with these individuals.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man's dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety. Bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old Traverse City man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake, state police said. It shows Bennetts first trying to throw a rescue disc tethered to a rope out to the man. Come here Ruby!” Bennetts shouts in the video before whistling for the canine, which runs to him and arrives tail wagging. The officer ties the rescue disc to the dog's collar and asks the man to call Ruby back to him.

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☆ The Teamsters and the Yellow Road to Bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Yellow Corp. trailers sit idle at a YRC shipping facility in North Reading, Mass., Aug. 16. Photo: BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERSRegarding “Troubled Yellow Files for Bankruptcy” (Business and Finance, Aug. 7): As the trucking company’s chairman and CEO, my father led a talented group of executives and managers who linked together 34 acquisitions and built the largest less-than-truckload motor carrier in America. Two hallmarks of his leadership are worth noting: Maintaining a healthy balance between growth, profitability and debt, and attaining consensus among senior officers before moving forward with strategic plans and major capital commitments. This approach benefited customers, employees and shareholders for 42 years.

Persons: BRIAN SNYDER Organizations: Yellow Corp, REUTERS, Finance Locations: North Reading, America

☆ A trucking giant that's been on America's roads for almost a century is on the brink of collapse with 30,000 jobs at risk, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A trucking giant is in danger of shutting down for good, leaving 30,000 unemployed, WSJ reports. The Trump administration approved a $700 million CARES Act loan to the company in 2020. The company laid off hundreds of nonunion employees on Friday, and 30,000 more are in danger of losing their jobs. The Teamsters told union members that the "likelihood that Yellow will survive is increasingly bleak" in a memo on Friday, per The Journal. The act deregulated the trucking industry by letting trucking companies to set their own rates.

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CNN —An unarmed Black man was attacked by a police officer’s K-9 as he surrendered to authorities with his hands up, despite an Ohio State Trooper repeatedly urging officers not to release the dog. The video then cuts to what appears to be a state trooper coming out of his vehicle and walking toward the driver. “Do not release the dog with his hands up,” a state trooper warns several times from a distance. Circleville K9 Officer R. Speakman deployed his K9 on the suspect.”Footage shows the dog was released after repeated warnings from the state trooper. “Get the dog off of him,” the same state trooper yells several times.

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The rule also require transitioning existing fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Big rigs, local delivery and government fleets must transition to zero emission by 2035, garbage trucks and local buses by 2039, and sleeper cab tractors and specialty vehicles by 2042. American Trucking Associations Chief Executive Chris Spear criticized the decision to force motor carriers to purchase zero-emission vehicles. On Thursday, CARB adopted new locomotive regulations requiring that by 2030 only those less than 23 years old could operate in the state. The Biden administration must still approve waivers for California to implement the new regulations.

☆ A New York woman lost all her belongings to a moving company scam. She got a $10,000 settlement, but is living with her parents and scraping together 5 part-time jobs to make ends meet.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The 45-year-old lactation consultant won about $10,000 by suing the moving company. There weren't a lot of options available when it came to moving companies, but she eventually found Gold Standard Relocation. Everything seemed normal on Wagner's moving day — until the movers didn't show up and the company wouldn't answer the phone. She'd already paid the moving company about $4,300 to transport and store more than 70 boxes of her things and many furniture pieces for six months. Fraudulent moving companies will often offer customers a low estimate and deposit price, and then demand additional exorbitant fees after taking their belongings hostage.

☆ Florida is ground zero for moving scams where companies demand extra fees — or steal your stuff
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Moving company scams are on the rise, and almost half originate in Florida. But the Sunshine State is also increasingly home to scammers operating fraudulent moving companies targeting Florida residents and people across the country. No one's regulating," Susan Chana Lask, a New York-based consumer rights attorney who settled a lawsuit last year with a Florida-based moving company, told Insider. Her office announced last November that it had shut down 19 fraudulent moving companies and recovered $27 million in fines and restitution from the scammers. The sharp increase in moving scams across the country has also prompted the Biden administration to announce it's taking action.

☆ US union opposes driverless trucks waiver for Waymo, Aurora
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aurora and Waymo instead want to use warning beacons mounted on the truck cab to avoid needing human drivers. Waymo and Aurora say that without an exemption driverless trucks would need a human on board, which would "undermine the efficiency potential of autonomous CMVs." Waymo responded that the "exemption we put forward would permit compliant autonomous trucking operations while maintaining a high standard of safety." In the joint filing, Aurora said it maintains 28 Class 8 self-driving trucks that run on public roads, primarily in Texas, while Waymo listed 48 Class 8 trucks. Legislation to speed the deployment of self-driving vehicles and ease hurdles has been stalled for more than five years in Congress.

☆ Union opposes driverless trucks exemption for Waymo, Aurora
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aurora and Waymo instead want to use warning beacons mounted on the truck cab to avoid the need for human drivers. It urged the safety board to ensure "rigorous oversight and standards" before widespread deployment of such new technologies. Waymo and Aurora say that without an exemption driverless trucks would need to have a human on board, which would "undermine the efficiency potential of autonomous CMVs." Legislation to speed the deployment of self-driving vehicles and ease hurdles has been stalled for more than five years in Congress. A bill to advance self-driving cars approved by the U.S. House in 2017 applied to vehicles under 10,000 pounds -- but not large commercial trucks.

☆ A new picture of a Tesla Cybertruck appears to show its lone windshield wiper leaves a lot of the window dirty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla's head of design shared a photo of the company's Cybertruck that shows its windshield wipers leave much of it dirty. In the first photo we've seen of the windshield in use, a close inspection of the picture shows that the lone windshield wiper on the electric pickup truck fails to clear a large swatch of the window. Since, new images of the vehicle keep popping up on social media — highlighting its massive "frunk," its circular yoke steering wheel, and the massive windshield wiper was hard to miss. The singular windshield wiper is perhaps the largest Tesla has yet to put on the truck. Last year, the electric-car maker appeared to experiment with a smaller, switchblade-style windshield wiper that could extend and retract as it was used, Fox News reported.

☆ Electronic tracking has been required on semi-trucks for 5 years. Fatalities haven't decreased.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The devices help ensure truckers don't drive longer than they should, a maximum of 11 hours per day, to avoid fatigue and keep roads safe. Another driver, Brian Stauffer, pointed out that ELDs don't allow for adjustment, and that a driver that has reached the 11-hour limit shouldn't be forced to stop in a high-crime area, for example. "They used to say, 'I'll get there in about 11 hours'. Now they really only have 11 hours. Before ELDs, hours of service were noted down on paper logbooks, which were easy to falsify.

☆ American truckers' wages have dropped by more than $50,000 since 1980, creating one of the industry's biggest problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The deregulation of the trucking industry in the 1980s led to wages being slashed by almost half. A high turnover rate — around 90% for large fleets — is considered a big problem of the industry. The change is tied to the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which deregulated the trucking industry. Along with depressed wages, truckers face a dangerous job: In the US, one in 6 workers killed on the job is a trucker, according to Levy. That contributes to a high turnover of over 90% for large fleets.

☆ D.C. school bus driver charged with DUI after allegedly crashing into a ditch, injuring 9 students
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A school bus driver in D.C. was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he crashed into a ditch, injuring nine children returning from a field trip. The bus — carrying 44 children and four adults — hit a rock, causing the rim to bend and the tire to flatten. "Reynolds continued driving until the adults on the bus convinced him to follow a second bus, which was also returning to the school from the field trip," police said. The agency's Motor Carrier Safety also found 18 safety violations between Reynolds and the other bus driver transporting children on the trip. "MCS determined that none of the bus drivers were properly licensed to operate a school bus," authorities said.

☆ How getting dog food delivered to your door explains the inefficient, sometimes absurd, extremely convenient way online orders are shipped
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Industry analysts predict that the amount of dog food ordered online will surpass what's bought in stores by 2025, a shift accelerated drastically by the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, it's not just dog food increasingly being bought online. Even with all those extra vehicles, it's tough to compare the emissions generated by online orders with those of in-store shopping. The mess of overlapping networks that bring our dog food to our doorsteps is always evolving in search of greater efficiency. The mess of overlapping networks that bring our dog food to our doorsteps is always evolving in search of greater efficiency.

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