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23.06.2023 / 22:21

Electric semi trucks on fire in Phoenix: 'Foul play is suspected'

PHOENIX - Several electric semi trucks caught fire in an industrial area near 40th Street and Broadway early Friday morning, triggering a large response from HAZMAT crews in Phoenix and Tempe."I just heard an explosion, and I came out, the semis were all on fire," said John Frank.The lithium-ion battery fire is burning at the Nikola Corporation building, and officials are calling it difficult and tricky to fight. A thick black smoke and a strong chemical smell could be sensed in the area.The explosion was caught on camera, and according to fire officials, four trucks are on fire.

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UPS drivers to get air conditioned trucks for 1st time under union agreement

FILE - A UPS truck parked while out on delivery route. (Photo by: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time. The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S.

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Man dead after crashing car into 2 FedEx trucks in Deptford Township, police say

Deptford Township Police Department are investigating a car crash that left a man dead on Tuesday morning. DEPTFORD TWP, N.J. - Deptford Township Police Department are investigating a car crash that left a man dead on Tuesday morning. Just before 9 a.m., officers were dispatched to the area of Clements Bridge Road, right along the Camden County border, for reports of a vehicle collision. Police say after they arrived, it was determined that a late model Honda Accord collided with two FedEx trucks. The driver of the Honda Accord, who authorities say is a 24-year-old man from Deptford Township, was transported to Cooper University Hospital in Camden where he succumbed to his injuries. Authorities say the identity of the victim is being withheld until family has been notified. This crash is actively being investigated and police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 856-845-2220, or email [email protected].

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Loblaw launches driverless trucks for PC Express food delivery

Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik on Wednesday announced the launch of driverless box trucks to deliver select online grocery orders for Loblaw’s PC Express service.

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Police warn of unmarked tow trucks being used to steal cars in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - Police in Philadelphia are warning of a fleet of unmarked tow trucks being used to carry out vehicle thefts. The Philadelphia Police Department on Friday said the thefts have happened across the city, but have mainly occurred in the south and southwest sections. In many of the thefts, police say the actor will come to the vehicle owner's front door and demand money to prevent their car from being towed. According to investigators, the vehicle owners are told that their car is on a 311 list. Philly311 is the city's non-emergency line used for reporting abandoned vehicles, among other things. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESThe suspects, who police said are all men, later return to the property and carry out the vehicle theft. Police say the cars being targeted have expired temporary tag, flat tires, debris surrounding the car and expired registration.

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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live is coming to Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - The Wells Fargo Center welcomes Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live to Philadelphia on Saturday, July 30th and Sunday, July 31st. The entertaining family event will feature real-life versions of the famous Hot Wheels monster trucks toys with many fan favorites, including Bone Shaker™, Tiger Shark, V8 Bomber™, and Demo Derby, plus the all-new Mega Wrex™, Race Ace™ and Bigfoot® Midwest Madness™. This is the first-ever collaboration between Hot Wheels and Bigfoot and will have the audience extra pumped for the show. MEGASAURUS, a car-eating, fire-breathing transforming robot will also make a special appearance at the show. The show will include a monster truck crash competition and battle. Passes are available for purchase while supplies last.

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Ford recalling nearly 2,900 F-150 Lightning trucks

F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.A spokesperson for the automaker told FOX Business that the vehicle's tire pressure monitoring system light may not illuminate when intended and may not be able to provide adequate warning of low tire inflation pressure. "This is because the recommended tire cold inflation pressure value in the Body Control Module (BCM) was incorrectly set to 35 psi rather than the correct inflation pressure of 42 psi," the spokesperson explained. "Low tire inflation pressure may lead to poor vehicle handling and a possible loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of crash." FORD CFO FLAGS INCREASE IN CAR LOAN DELINQUENCIESThe safety compliance recall covers 2,666 vehicles in the U.S.

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Ford recalls 350K vehicles: Certain SUVs impacted for fire risk, heavy-duty trucks for airbag issue

DETROIT - The owners of some 350,000 Ford vehicles are being asked to take them in for repairs as part of three recalls.This includes certain SUVs that should be parked outside due to a fire risk and about 310,000 heavy-duty trucks because the airbag may not inflate in a crash.A third recall involves over 400 electric Mustang Mach-E SUVs due to a software issue that can cause unintended acceleration, among other issues.Here’s what to know about these recent Ford recalls:Ford said in U.S. government documents posted Thursday that one of the recalls impacts some 2021 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.

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Three Canada Post trucks damaged after fire in East Van depot

At least three mail trucks are badly damaged after a fire at a depot in East Vancouver. The fire broke out in one of Canada Post’s distinctive delivery trucks Friday morning at East Hastings and Woodland Drive.

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Police continue arrests, towing trucks in Ottawa

Police have continued arresting people and towing vehicles as anti-measures protesters marked another weekend in the capital. As Kyle Benning explains, officers were more aggressive with demonstrators who defied orders to leave.

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Trucker protests: Ottawa mayor says deal struck for trucks to leave residential neighbourhoods

The mayor of Ottawa says he’s reached a back channel deal with protest organizers to limit their demonstration to the area immediately surrounding Parliament Hill. The agreement calls for vehicles to roll out of residential neighbourhoods over the next 24 hours.

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Ambassador Bridge Closed to Canada-bound trucks

For a second day, no vehicles are being allowed into Canada on the most important trade bridge between Canada and the United States. As Seán O’Shea reports, protesters are preventing it.

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Trucks block major Toronto roads as anti-mandate demonstration interrupts downtown core

The anti-mandate trucker protests have reached Toronto on Saturday, with large crowds gathering in the city’s downtown core. But the demonstration has impacted businesses, emergency hospital runs and trucks blocked major roads downtown.

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Upcoming fleet of USPS trucks has terrible gas mileage, EPA reports

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US to allow teens to drive semi-trucks in test apprenticeship program

FILE - Tractor-trailer trucks carrying goods along I-74 during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 4, 2020, in Veedersburg, Indiana. (Photo by David Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) DETROIT - The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program.Currently, truckers who cross state lines must be at least 21 years old, but an apprenticeship program required by Congress to help ease supply chain backlogs would let 18-to-20-year-old truckers drive outside their home states.The pilot program, detailed Thursday in a proposed regulation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, would screen the teens, barring any with driving-while-impaired violations or traffic tickets for causing a crash.But safety advocates say the program runs counter to data showing that younger drivers get in more crashes than older ones.

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Health minister flags off 11 relief trucks for Uttarakhand, J&K and Ladakh

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1 dead after transport trucks collided on Hwy. 7 in Havelock: OPP

The collision happened around 5 a.m. at the intersection of County Road 30.

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Police: Catalytic converters stolen from 7 Philadelphia Parks & Recreation trucks

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating after the catalytic converters were stolen from seven Philadelphia Parks & Recreation trucks overnight in South Philadelphia, according to police. Police say seven of the Parks & Recreation Department's Ford pick-up trucks were parked in FDR Park near the 2000 block of Pattison Avenue when the theft occurred. Investigators did not report any arrests and have not released a description of potential suspects. According to popular car sales website Edmunds, thieves target catalytic converters due to the precious metals they're manufactured with like platinum and palladium. Edmunds says catalytic converters can bring up to $200 at most scrap yards.

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Cash, guns and trucks: West Virginia launches COVID-19 vaccine incentive lottery

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Winnipeg food trucks find creative solutions as pandemic continues to hurt business

Manitoba food truck season stalls as coronavirus concerns impact industry Open for business in 2021! We are all set up for the season here @stnorbertmarket . See you soon! pic.twitter.com/bghYXZLXZv— The Red Ember (@theredember) May 22, 2021Steffen Zinn, owner of the Red Ember wood-fired pizza business, said he’s had the same experience, with local businesses reaching out to have his food truck park in their lots.“It’s really nice to see the help coming from a different part of the business community in Winnipeg,” Zinn said.“It’s been really tough out there the last year and the start of this year, for sure.

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GM profit surges to $2.98B on sales of higher-margin trucks

DETROIT – General Motors’ first-quarter net income surged to $2.98 billion as strong U.S. consumer demand and higher prices offset production cuts brought on by a global shortage of computer chips.

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Portion of John Young Parkway shut down after pickup and tanker trucks collide

ORLANDO, Fla. – A portion of John Young Parkway in Orlando was shut down Monday due to a crash involving a pickup truck.

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Florida woman charged with setting fire to 10 trash trucks

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida woman who set fire last fall to 10 garbage trucks outside a solid waste business where she worked has been arrested, authorities said.

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Explosion destroys 5 garbage trucks in Florida

PENSACOLA, Fla. – An explosion and fire destroyed five garbage trucks and damaged two others at a sanitation complex in the Florida Panhandle.

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How L.A. Food Trucks Are Staying Afloat Amid Pandemic Shutdowns

Street food long has been a key part of Los Angeles culture, in the past decade or so manifesting in a boom of food trucks surrounding office buildings by day and spots like Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard by night. Kogi's Roy Choi often has been credited as a leader of the food truck revolution since launching his Korean-Mexican fusion operation in 2008; 12 years later, he has watched as the industry took a profound hit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Automaker Daimler to spin off trucks business, change name

FRANKFURT – German automaker Daimler will split itself into two independent companies by spinning off its truck and bus division, a move the company said would give both the freedom to operate more nimbly in a fast-changing environment focussed on zero-emission vehicles and software.

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Tata Motors introduces new range of refrigerated trucks to carry Covid-19 vaccine

Tata Motors has announced a new range of refrigerated trucks for smooth movement of the countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive. The company claims that the new trucks come equipped with specialised transportation equipment.

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Moving trucks spotted at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Moving trucks were spotted Monday outside of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida as he is expected to move in on the day of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.A person familiar with President Donald Trump's planning said that he will leave Washington D.C. on the morning of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. President Trump previously said that he would not be attending Biden’s inauguration, breaking tradition.

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UK seafood trucks protest at Parliament over Brexit red tape

LONDON – Trucks owned by British shellfish firms descended Monday on Parliament in London to protest the Brexit-related red tape they claim is suffocating their businesses.About a dozen large lorries — one bearing the words “Brexit carnage!” — drove past the Houses of Parliament and parked outside Downing St., home to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. British fishing communities were among the strongest supporters of leaving the European Union, because it promised the chance for the U.K.

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Bulgaria ridiculed for using hot dog trucks to deliver coronavirus vaccines

MailOnline reported. Images shared online show workers lifting boxes from a white van decorated with pictures of the fast-food favourite.Escorted by the police, several refrigerated vans delivered the doses to "a couple" of cities, according to reports.Trolls have since mocked up Frankfurters with the Pfizer logo as the countries vaccination programme got underway.Hot dog-themed memes with Photoshopped images and frankfurter-related jokes quickly flooded Facebook and Twitter.

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Coronavirus: Hundreds of trucks still stranded in England due to COVID-19 testing restrictions

Hundreds of trucks were still stranded at the Port of Dover in England on Sunday as they tried to cross the English Channel into France, many stuck due to restrictions regarding coronavirus testing.

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Coronavirus: ‘Help’ plea from drivers as aerials show thousands of trucks motionless near Dover

Thousands of lorries were still stuck at a former airport near Dover, Europe’s busiest truck port on Wednesday, despite traffic starting to flow again across the Channel between Britain and France.

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Still stuck: 1,500 France-bound trucks stranded in England

LONDON – More than 1,500 trucks were stranded in England on Tuesday morning amid fears that Britain could face food shortages if travel restrictions put in place to slow the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus aren't lifted soon. Dozens of countries around the world have slapped tough travel curbs on the U.K.

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Trucks carrying 1st coronavirus vaccines in U.S. prepare to depart

COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.An assembly line of workers began in the early morning hours pulling doses out of a freezer, boxing the vaccine and loading the units onto pallets so they could be placed on trucks at a Pfizer plant in Michigan. Dry ice, shipping labels and packing tape were on hand as the workers — donning masks, face shields and gloves — put together the packages inside the warehouse.

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Trucks with first COVID-19 vaccine in US get ready to roll

The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation's coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will set in motion the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million and sickened 71 million worldwide.Initially, about 3 million doses were expected to be sent out, and the priority is health care workers and nursing home residents as infections, hospitalizations and deaths soar in the U.S.

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U.S. tells General Motors to recall nearly 6 million trucks over Takata airbag issue

DETROIT - The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators.The move announced Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion.DETROIT, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES - 2019/07/31: The General Motors world headquarters office is seen at Detroit's Renaissance Center.

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US tells GM to recall nearly 6M trucks with Takata inflators

DETROIT – The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.The decision announced Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion, about one third of its net income this year.GM had petitioned the agency four times starting in 2016 to avoid a recall, contending the air bag inflator canisters have been safe on the road and in testing.

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Food trucks provide rare bright spot in hard-hit West Bank

RAMALLAH – The coronavirus crisis has hit West Bank restaurants hard. But one part of the dining sector is bucking the trend: food trucks.With dine-in restaurants mostly closed due to health restrictions, food trucks have allowed entrepreneurial businessmen to find a way to keep working.

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California governor signs executive order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035, a move he said would cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third. Plus, Newsom said he is directing the California Air Resources Board to establish regulations that require all new cars and passenger trucks be zero-emission vehicles by 2045 "where feasible." California already has rules mandating a certain percentage of new car sales must be electric or zero-emission vehicles.

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California governor signs order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035. Newsom said he is directing the California Air Resources Board to establish regulations that require all new cars and passenger trucks be zero-emission vehicles by 2045 "where feasible." California already has rules mandating a certain percentage of new car sales must be electric or zero-emission vehicles.

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California governor signs order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks

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Leaked Brexit letter warns of 7,000 trucks queuing in Kent with waits of two days

The UK minister responsible for no-deal planning, Michael Gove, has written to logistics groups with the government's "reasonable worst-case scenario" planning, which warns of possible two-day delays for cargo travelling to France in January.

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Where’s the beef? Alberta RCMP investigating hot tub heist, $230K meat theft by trucks with fake papers

meat was stolen from one of Canada’s largest meatpacking plants — three days before several spas were taken from a manufacturer near Edmonton.The meat theft from the JBS meatpacking plant near Brooks, Alta., happened two weeks ago, on Aug. 30.RCMP said a transport truck that was subcontracted to haul a full load of beef from the facility west of Calgary to the United States failed to make its delivery.Police said the full load of beef was valued at over $230,000 and as of publishing remains unaccounted for.

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Hurricane-force winds blow over dozens of semi-trucks in Utah

UTAH - Dozens of semi-trucks were blown over by hurricane-strength winds on Tuesday during one of Utah’s most destructive windstorms on record.According to local reports, the windstorm blew over at least 45 semi-trucks, injuring at least four drivers.Utah Highway Patrol trooper Nick Street captured video of one of the rollovers. The video showed one semi-truck already tipped, while another semi tipped over on Interstate 15.“UDOT & tow truck crews are working to clear a total of five semis blown over through Box Elder, Weber and Davis Counties,” Street tweeted.

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Conshohocken company using trucks for mobile COVID-19 testing

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. - A Conshohocken company is designing a new kind of COVID-19 testing site and it’s on wheels. When the pandemic hit, Larry Borden, the founder and CEO of Aardvark Mobile Tours had to change his fleet that was originally built for marketing companies at big events. “I read an article that Israel was taking shipping containers and placing them all around the country to do testing,” said Borden. “One of the issues is that they need cranes to move them and they didn’t have electricity.” Borden knew his team could do better, building COVID-19 testing trucks that are air conditioned for nurses and separate them from patients by a glass shield. The trucks can collect between 200 and 2,000 tests each day, depending on the size

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Refrigerated trucks requested in Arizona, Texas as morgues reach capacity amid COVID-19 surge

New York’s experience during the onset of the pandemic in March.In Arizona, one Phoenix hospital has called for morgue trucks to help alleviate a rapidly growing death count due to the ongoing pandemic.AdvertisementA spokesperson for Abrazo Health told FOX 10 Phoenix that while its hospitals currently have adequate morgue space, the state has asked hospitals to implement emergency plans."Abrazo hospitals currently have adequate morgue space. The state has requested that hospitals implement their emergency plans.

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Ariana Grande Sends Food And Coffee Trucks To Kentucky Voters Waiting In Line: ‘Use Your Voice’

Ariana Grande lent her support to voters in Kentucky on Tuesday. The 26-year-old pop star sent food and coffee trucks to spots in the line outside of the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky where voters were participating in the Democratic primary election.

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Ariana Grande sends food and coffee trucks to voters waiting in line in Kentucky

Ariana Grande tried to make life a little easier for people heading to the polls in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday.The state held its primary election but only opened 170 polling stations instead of the usual 3,700, meaning voters were faced with long lines and long wait times to cast their ballot.Grande sent food and coffee trucks to the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, tweeting: 'please pull up, enjoy and use your voice today we need u.'The Expo Center is the only polling station open in Jefferson County, a predominantly black community.

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