Sept. 23–A West Terre Haute trucking business is expanding with the purchase of a long vacant building in Terre Haute’s Fort Harrison Industrial Park. PJ Trucking has acquired the former Ivy Hill Packaging Plant at 4141 Third Parkway and plans to use the more than 240,000-square-foot building as a warehouse. The business was started in
Sept. 23–Hundreds of truckers are assembled in south Joplin for a weekend of group therapy, and everyone seems to have received the same prescription: chrome. The brilliant metal glinted from bumpers, extra-noisy exhaust pipes and custom light fixtures worth thousands of dollars. “I like the red and chrome,” said Lori Franklin, 57, surveying her custom-everything
Sept. 22–STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Paul Furtaw died after his car crashed into the rear of a flatbed truck on the West Shore Expressway on an early July morning. He was 41. Officials indicated that Furtaw was driving a 2016 Nissan Altima when the vehicle struck an occupied 2005 Freightliner tractor-trailer that was parked in
Sept. 22–Container ships bound for Houston called on other ports as Hurricane Harvey slogged its way across the upper Texas coast and into the history books. For weeks after the storm’s massive floodwaters receded, trucking companies lost revenue and endured delays. And still today, a heavy buildup of silt is blocking many of the barges
Sept. 22–Federal investigators have determined that the engineers in two recent, high-profile derailments involving the LIRR and NJ Transit suffered from a sleep disorder, according to newly released public documents. After a NJ Transit train fatally derailed in Hoboken last September and a Long Island Rail Road train crashed in Atlantic Terminal this January, both
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Sept. 21–When the Norwalk football team walks the bridge over Black Fork Creek to W.W. Skiles Field on Friday, more than 100 years worth of history will be represented. Despite the end of the Northern Ohio League, and the two teams being in different divisions of the 18-team Sandusky Bay Conference, the Truckers (2-2) and
Sept. 21–State regulators Wednesday allowed more companies to haul toxic waste in Louisiana. But the Public Service Commission did not go as far as a newly passed state law demands, which will force the courts, ultimately, to decide how to handle hazardous leftovers from industry and the oilfield. Voting 4-0, the PSC updated trucking regulations
Sept. 21–CHATTANOOGA — Four more former Pilot Flying J employees head to federal court today to admit their parts in a multi-million-dollar diesel fraud scheme that cheated trucking companies across the U.S. The latest to plead guilty include John “Stick” Freeman, Pilot’s former vice president of sales, who devised the fraud scheme and bragged about
Sept. 20–NOGALES, Son./Ariz. — Arizona is the first state in the country to have inspectors travel across the border to train commercial truck drivers on how to cut crossing times at ports of entry while improving safety. It is more important than ever for border states to work together, said John Halikowski, director for the
