A tractor-trailer driver from New Jersey caused a double-fatal crash on the New York State Thruway just west of Rochester last month when he made an illegal U-turn and fled the scene, authorities said. Quentin D. Campbell, 55, of Newark, was charged with two counts of manslaughter and leaving the […]
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An Illinois truck driver in 1940. Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today’s network of big-box retailers and online shopping likely wouldn’t exist without the deregulation of the trucking industry 40 years ago this month. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980, passed by President Jimmy Carter, slashed the cost of moving […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Rapid City’s ‘Name The Garbage Truck’ contest enters its voting phase this week with the public getting the chance to weigh in and make selections to name nine City garbage trucks. Last month, the City’s Solid Waste Division requested submissions from the public for the contest […]
Illinois state Rep. Chris Miller (R), the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), acknowledged Thursday that his pickup truck was parked in a restricted area outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, but he said the “Three Percenter” militia sticker on the back window doesn’t mean […]
In Terre Hill, in the early 1980s, my father, William F. Stirk, rescued and set about restoring a 1938 REO Speed Wagon firetruck that was originally commissioned by the Bainbridge Fire Department. Harvey the firetruck’s restoration process was not foremost in my mind when I was a high school and […]