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Yellow Corp., a 99-year-old trucking company that was once a dominant player in its field, halted operations Sunday and will lay off all 30,000 of its workers. The unionized company has been in a battle with the Teamsters union, which represents about 22,000 drivers and dock workers at the company. Just a week ago the union canceled a threatened strike that had been prompted by the company failing to contribute to its pension and health insurance plans. The union granted the company an extra month to make the required payments. But by midweek last week, the company had stopped picking...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. -- A huge turtle and a man trying to be a hero caused a multi-car crash in Florida on Tuesday, according to Walton County Sheriff's Office. It happened around 6:45 in the morning on Highway 331 in the Florida Panhandle. Dash camera from an 18-wheeler caught the whole thing on video. The 18-wheeler is driving down the divided four-lane highway when it quickly comes up on several stopped and slowing cars. The 18-wheeler cannot stop in time. It veers off the side of the road and then back onto the road where it collides with several of...

Biden should be at home with a 'warm cup of soup' not 'pretending' to be leader of the free world US President Joe Biden is a man who is in “obvious physical and cognitive decline” and looked dazed and confused at an anniversary event for a healthcare build as the crowd fussed over Barack Obama, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Just a pitiful spectacle; Biden is a man who should be resting at home with a warm cup of soup, not pretending to be the leader of the free world," Ms Panahi said. “And the indignities did not...

During a speech Monday regarding trucking supply chains, Joe Biden bizarrely claimed that he used to be a truck driver, had an 18 wheeler that he drove around, as well as a colleague called ‘Big Mama’. In one of the most flagrant examples of Biden just making up stuff, he said “I used to drive a truck. It’s a long story – anyway… and I thought I was gonna get to drive one of these suckers today,” while motioning to one of the prop Mack trucks behind him. Watch: Biden repeats false claim he used to be a truck driver...

A man crushed and dragged on his motorcycle by an 18-wheeler in Slidell has survived. The incident, captured in a terrifying video, leads "one to believe that miracles really do exist," the Slidell Police Department declared. The crash occurred last Friday (Aug. 7) around 7 p.m. At the intersection of Gause Boulevard West and Carnation Street a motorcyclist had come to a stop and was surveying traffic, video provided by the Police Department shows.As he is there idling on his bike, an 18-wheeler makes a right turn and plows right into him. The 2005 Freightliner careens down Carnation Street, pushing...

The Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) is requesting applications for its Diesel Emissions Reduction Grant Programme (DERG), which will offer US$19.8m towards retrofitting cleaner diesel engines in the state. Grants will be offered for the retrofit of all public and private diesel engine fleets (with public sponsor) that have at least 20% matching funds. Grant applicants must operate their updated equipment in Ohio non-attainment-and-maintenance counties at least 65% of the time. Public fleets include school buses, mass transit vehicles, trash trucks, and government fleets. Private fleets include long and short haul trucks, switcher locomotives and non-road construction equipment. Non-road vehicles...

Festival panel cheers N.O. schools critic Host of 'Hester Report' delivers barbs at Essence Sunday, July 08, 2007 By Gwen Filosa She hasn't changed a bit. Sandwiched between scholars and celebrities at the Essence Music Festival on Saturday stood pre-Katrina gadfly Sandra Wheeler Hester, who earned the nickname "18-Wheeler" as a relentless critic of New Orleans public school leaders and anyone else who raised her hackles.

An 11-year-old girl was apparently the driver of an 18-wheeler that crashed into a highway overpass guardrail, burst into flames and fell onto the road below, police said.

FBI alert triggered by 'Mideast' truckers Pair reportedly tried to put unleaded gasinto 18-wheeler at Colorado gas station Two men described as 'Middle Eastern' seen driving a semi-truck that made a stop at a Colorado gas station are the focus of a nationwide alert issued by the FBI, according to a report by KUSA-TV in Denver. The men driving the 18-wheeler reportedly stopped at a Hess station Thursday afternoon in the town of Byers, about forty miles east of Denver. The FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force got involved when an attendant saw the men apparently trying to put unleaded gasoline...

Two men described as 'Middle Eastern' seen driving a semi-truck that made a stop at a Colorado gas station are the focus of a nationwide alert issued by the FBI, according to a report by KUSA-TV in Denver. The men driving the 18-wheeler reportedly stopped at a Hess station Thursday afternoon in the town of Byers, about forty miles east of Denver. The FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force got involved when an attendant saw the men apparently trying to put unleaded gasoline into the truck. The attendant had to tell the pair to use diesel fuel instead. The men fueled...