24 May In California, Gas Taxes Are Rising While Repairs Are Lagging Four years after the California Legislature boosted the gas tax in order to fix the state’s crumbling roads and bridges, California has spent billions and made some progress in repairs, but officials now say the funding is sufficient to complete less than half of the work needed. Read more...
24 May Diesel Creeps Up 0.4¢ to $3.253 The national average price for a gallon of diesel nudged up just four-tenths of a cent to $3.253 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released May 24. Read more...
24 May North Carolina DOT Pilots Trucking Alert System The North Carolina Department of Transportation is piloting an in-cab trucking alert system in an effort to reduce the risk of commercial motor vehicle crashes. Read more...
24 May 4 Million Accident-Free Miles and Still Trucking at 79 Four million miles and not so much as a fender-bender. Pennsylvania trucker Don Cook, 79, attributes his success to skill and patience — “You have to have your wits about you,” he said — but also to luck. Read more...
24 May For Tesla Owners, Colonial Pipeline Hack Was No Big Deal Automotive historians may look back on May 2021 as a tipping point in the evolution of electric vehicles. Read more...
24 May Senate Panel to Consider Highway Policy Bill May 26 The Democratic leadership of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee scheduled consideration of comprehensive highway policy legislation for May 26. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
24 May Truckers Work to Purge Systems of Banned Chinese Technologies, but Challenges Remain Most motor carriers doing business with the federal government are believed to have responded to a requirement that they do their best to purge technology systems of five banned Chinese technology providers said to be potential hackers into U.S. intelligence and defense agencies’ information systems. Read more...
24 May XPO Logistics Announces SVP of Strategy for Spinoff GXO XPO Logistics Inc. has appointed Angus Tweedie to be the senior vice president of strategy for its upcoming spinoff company GXO Logistics, the company announced May 19. Read more...
24 May Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 24, 2021 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the May 24, 2021 print edition. Read more...
24 May Biden to Direct $1 Billion for Severe Weather Preparedness President Joe Biden announced a doubling of federal spending on preparations for severe weather events, his latest move to put climate change at the center of his domestic agenda. Read more...