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There’s snow reason to speed during winter storms. Chilling dashcam footage captured the moment a driver in upstate New York crashed nearly head-on into a snowplow after trying to pass another truck. The plow was driving along a two-lane road in the North Country region when the semi-truck’s headlights appeared ahead with a black sedan riding alongside it. The passenger car — squarely in the plow’s path — desperately tried to speed up and overtake the semi-truck, but couldn’t gain enough space in the slush and snow on the narrow roadway.

Almost 15 years ago, California’s Air Resources Board, known as “CARB”, passed a set of clean air regulations with assigned dates for implementation. Of those emissions rulings, the last to go into effect hits the trucking and bus industry the hardest, going into effect on January 1, 2023. It bans large trucks and buses built before 2010 from California roads. At the end of December 2022, CARB estimated that there are 200,000 trucks and busses that it applies to. These are 14,000 lb and heavier vehicles that can no longer be driven in California. It estimates that number represents 10%...

It is now more than evident that it is very dangerous for a society to allow for the widespread distribution and ownership of weapons whose sole purpose is to destroy human life.

Dear President Biden, I'm planning to move to Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I'll need your help to make a few arrangements. I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here, so would you mind telling your buddy, the Mexican President, that I'm on my way down? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following: 1....

Six pickup trucks work together to pull a semi truck up an icy, snowy hill in this video. It happened in Saline County, Arkansas this past week near Interstate 30 and Alcoa Road. According to the Facebook post by Stephanie Cole, initially three pickup trucks chained themselves to the big rig, but it wasn’t enough power, so a fourth, fifth, and sixth joined in to help, sled dog team style. In the clip, several of the pickups can be seen slipping and sliding, but the team eventually gets it done, and people can be heard cheering in the background as...

- Technology encompasses world's first free-standing/self-supported electrode with a cathode that has 4x the energy density of lithium-ion - Achieves 2,000 cycles - Cell technology expected to cost 50% less to produce than lithium-ion - Could drive down the cost of hydrogen and double the range of battery-electric vehicles worldwide - Nikola will share intellectual property with OEMs around the world that contribute ======================================================================================= PHOENIX, Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation is excited to announce details of its new battery that has a record energy density of 1,100 watt-hours per kg on the material level and 500 watt-hours per...

Photo: Nikola Motor Company _____________________________________________________________________________________ Nikola Motor Company has filed a lawsuit in Arizona alleging that Tesla’s all-electric Semi infringes on the hydrogen truck startup’s patents. The lawsuit claims Tesla willfully copied these patents in creating its electric truck, and Nikola is seeking $2 billion in damages in return. “It’s patently obvious there is no merit to this lawsuit,” a spokesperson for Tesla told The Verge. A representative for Nikola Motors said in a statement to The Verge that “[w]e are not commenting because it is in the courts. The lawsuit speaks for itself.” Nikola was founded in 2014,...

“Gunmaker's 'Adaptive Combat Rifle' Too Combat-y: Fires Full Auto!” The Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann breathlessly warns Huffington Post readers. When is a "combat rifle" for the U.S. civilian gun market too combat-y? When it fires like a full-auto machine gun. Batty invented terminology aside, he’s referring to a product recall notice issued by Bushmaster on Oct. 15 for its ACR rifle: Bushmaster Firearms International, LLC has become aware of a possible firearms performance issue that may develop with a small number of ACR rifles and we are requesting you discontinue the sale of these firearms that remain in your...

Ray Cortopassi/Eyewitness News Indianapolis - Police can see you, but you can't see them. Indiana State Police are now watching how you drive around semis from inside the trucks. Eyewitness News rode along Wednesday to see how the new stealth program works. 681 crashes and 763 deaths: 2007 numbers show how dangerous it is getting on the road. Of the crashes involving semis, Indiana State Police say a little more than half are caused not by the truck, but by the passenger vehicle. "When this truck and trailer is loaded, it's like a rolling freight train. It takes a lot...

SAEGERTOWN, Pa. - Authorities say a Pennsylvania man rammed his house with a semitrailer during a fight with his roommate and tried to run down police called to the scene...

Police Searching For Semi Possibly Packed With Explosives POSTED: 8:21 pm EDT September 2, 2006 UPDATED: 11:22 pm EDT September 2, 2006 Police across Florida are searching for a semi after receiving a tip that the vehicle may be on its way to Central Florida packed with explosives, Local 6 News has learned. Authorities said a man called a crisis center in Georgia and said the tractor-trailer is traveling to Orlando. He told a worker that it is a brown 18-wheeler with an eagle on its side, the report said. Click here to find out more! Officers confirmed the threat...

Deadly Accidents Mar U.S. Holiday Travel 11 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! Americans by the millions, undeterred by a soggy economy and an elevated terror alert, are hitting the highways, airways and rails this Memorial Day weekend. AAA predicts record numbers of travelers on the road for what is traditionally the kickoff of the summer driving season. AP Photo   Travel in the Midwest was complicated when a bridge over Interstate 80 collapsed in Nebraska after being hit by a semi-trailer. The accident, which killed the driver, shut down a 10-mile stretch of the interstate....