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The Shocking Rise in Flash Mob Convenience Store Looting
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (466+ words) On X, a prominent Californian, Justine Bateman, took to her X account to remind us of an incident from 2025, which resulted in no arrests or prosecutions: Just a ruined store. She's not wrong. This incident, as noted, happened last summer,…...
Truckers Kill More Than 5, 000 People a Year. Regulators Are at Fault.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (584+ words) Mr. Fuller is the chief executive and founder of Freight Waves, a logistics industry news sit The American trucking industry, which moves nearly three-quarters of the nation's goods, has devolved into a dangerous, dysfunctional system that threatens every driver on…...
WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It's Already a Hit With Truckers.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (201+ words) Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. "If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis," said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier's…...
The Great Crew Change " AI and the new generation of oilworkers
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1754+ words) In 2010, I was a roughneck on a drilling rig in West Texas. These were the early days of the American shale revolution, before we truly understood what horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing would mean for the country. The work was…...
Aurora Adds 1, 000-Mile Driverless Run from Fort Worth to Phoenix
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (511+ words) Aurora Innovation said it has tripled its driverless trucking network to 10 routes as it prepares to expand autonomous freight operations across the southern United States. The Pittsburgh-based company said its latest software release enables its Aurora Driver autonomous control system…...
Post Office Phasing Out Migrant Drivers As Trucker Crashes Pile Up
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (461+ words) The U. S. Postal Service (USPS) will be tightening its licensing requirements for drivers as pressure mounts to boot poorly vetted migrants from the trucking industry. "The safety of our employees, our customers, and the American public is of the utmost concern…...
Laughing At Foreigners Driving Trucks | Bonehead Truckers
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (335+ words) Yep they are foreigners when they are praying in the isle of the truck stop while they leave their truck at the pump. The story of Large Marge, the trucker in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. A sound like a garbage…...
California Expected to Defy Federal Pressure, and Reissue 17, 000 Non-Domiciled CDLs
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1040+ words) California's expected decision to restore contested licenses sets stage for constitutional showdown over CDL authority State transportation officials confirmed to sources that the Department of Motor Vehicles will begin restoring the contested licenses to immigrant drivers who received 60-day cancellation…...
California "stands ready to resume" issuing non-domiciled CDLs
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (116+ words) Considering that the rule is not in effect, California appears to see an opening to reissue non-domiciled CDLs that it believes comply with current regulations. Additionally, California argues that its CDL holders are involved in fatal crashes at a rate…...
I'm an American Trucker. Illegal Migrants Are Flooding My Industry.
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (349+ words) trucking companies are hiring barely-vetted migrants happy to work long hours for low pay, many of whom don't speak english or understand our driving culture " and they're wreaking havoc on the roads On October 21, a commercial truck collided with an…...