MILTON, Ont. – It was a fitting finale to the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada’s virtual annual conference – an online discussion on Virtual Training in a Covid-19 World.And the panelists agreed — driver training using simulators and other virtual…
An ‘incredibly dangerous’ driver has been jailed after he rammed a police car and narrowly missed an officer at a roadblock.
Liam Stocks was being hunted by police after driving off from a filling station at Heathfield, Newton Abbot in a 2.5 ton Nissan…
Electric Volta Zero, with central driving position
Volta TrucksSweden’s Volta Trucks is launching what it called the world’s first purpose-built electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle, and analysts expect it to be well-received in the market-place.
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The investigation into how a freight train derailed and caught fire in Llangennech has begun.
British Transport Police, Network Rail and Natural Resources Wales have now been allowed to move onto the site where three carriages of a freight train carryi…
The fire service has extinguished the huge freight train fire in Llangennech near Llanelli.
The incident was reported just before 11.20pm on Wednesday (August 26) when three carriages of a freight train carrying a large amount of diesel were alight.
Fl…
R Kelly’s attorney has demanded the singer be released from jail after he was allegedly attacked behind bars by another inmate.
Steve Greenberg said his client was attacked at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Chicago, Illinois, where the R&B…
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – When Kent Kelly worked as the fleet manager at a Minnesota food hauling company many years ago, his first video in a vehicle was a VHS cassette deck in the back of a squad car.Today, Kelly is the sales manager at Trimble for Video I…
While cooling fans, garden sprinklers and hastily tied topknots are our main lines of defence against the sweltering heat wave that’s currency roasting the UK, ice creams and ice lollies are the first port of call for chilling from the inside out.
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A social media user captured cringe-inducing footage of a truck driver who got an unwanted shower while making a tight turn in an ambulance bay.
The video was shared by Facebook user David Kelly on July 20.
Kelly wrote, “The ambulance bay at work gl…
TROY, Mich. – Meritor announced Monday that Hannah Lim-Johnson will join the company as senior vice-president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary as of Aug. 3.Lim-Johnson will have responsibility for Meritor’s legal affairs, including oversigh…
Halton Regional Police have charged the man driving the truck that struck and killed an animal rights protester.
The 28-year-old man from North Perth has been charged with the Highway Traffic Act offence of careless driving causing death in the June …
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The trucking industry has done better than the broader population at avoiding Covid-19, but there are still frightening health-related concerns on the horizon.An update on how trucking businesses were coping with the Covid-19 pandemic…
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DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering …
A popular zoo, threatened with closure because of the coronavirus lockdown, is reopening on Monday, thanks to a massive fundraising campaign.
Andy Cowell, who manages the Fenn Bell Conservation Project at St Mary Hoo near Rochester, had feared he might…
Prime minister Boris Johnson and home secretary Priti Patel together last year as they face huge pressure over the travel sector’s fate. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP)
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The UK government is facing a growing revolt over its 14-day travel quarantine…