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Semi Trucks with dual trailers could get longer and heavier if two bills make their way through the federal government. One bill would allow each dual trailer to be 5 feet longer, for a total of 10 additional feet. Current single-trailer trucks would still be required to keep trailers 53 feet or shorter. Another bill […]

Its name is “Inspiration” and Daimler Trucks says it’s the first ever self-driving semi-truck licensed to drive on public roads — in this case Nevada’s highways — not only for testing, but business, too. Daimler Trucks North America LLC, which has its headquarters in Portland’s Swan Island industrial area, debuted the self-driving big rig Tuesday night […]

Winnipeg – Manitoba will increase the speed limit along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg to the Saskatchewan border on June 2, 2015 The speed limit is to increase to 110 km/h from 100 km/h on most twinned sections of the highway, Premier Greg Selinger announced Thursday “Manitobans have been asking for an increase in […]

Russian Railways president, Vladimir Yakunin, recently announced his very ambitious plan to build the world’s longest highway, which would connect London to New York City, but not across the Atlantic Ocean. Yup, you read correctly. The plan involves building a super-highway that’s some 12,400 miles long using existing roads in Europe and Russia. Around 6,200 […]

In the summer, lakes in isolated areas of northern Canada are filled mainly with wildlife. However, once winter’s frigid temperatures take hold, some of these same lakes turn into superhighways. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has provided a view of these highways from space with a Landsat satellite image taken on Feb. 24, 2015. […]

BC PROVINCIAL TRUCKING STRATEGY (Part of 10-year transportation plan)                                                  The B.C. government Yesterday announced B.C. on the Move, a 10-year transportation plan that outlines critical investments and improvements throughout the province that […]

Dozens of people were injured Monday when a northbound Amtrak train that had originated in Charlotte derailed after hitting a truck at a crossing in Halifax. The tractor-trailer and the oversize load it was carrying – a mobile-home-size building wrapped in heavy blue plastic – was being escorted by the N.C. State Highway Patrol when […]

Volvo Trucks has developed technology that eliminates a truck drivers’ blind spot, in a bid to reduce accidents involving pedestrians. Pedestrians and cyclists in urban areas are at particular risk. Last year 19,000 cyclists were reported killed or injured in Britain. Further, in London an estimated 20 percent of cyclist fatalities involve a truck or […]

A jury has returned a $3.5 million verdict on behalf of a California trucker who died in a truck fire caused by an extremely damaged transmission. The Fresno superior court jury found for the family of the late Amarjit Khunkhun of Fresno, following testimony from an expert on the origin and cause of fires and […]

MAGDEBURG, Germany — For Daimler, the truck driver of the future looks something like this: He is seated in the cab of a semi, eyes on a tablet and hands resting in his lap. Daimler demonstrated its vision Thursday along a stretch of the A14 autobahn near Magdeburg in eastern Germany, the culmination of years […]

  The speed limits on some multi-lane highways in B.C. are going up to 120 kilometres per hour, Transportation Minister Todd Stone announced on Wednesday morning in Kamloops,BC. The new speed limit will be in effect on: Highway 5 (the Coquihalla) from Hope to Kamloops. Highway 97C (the Connector) from Aspen Grove to Drought Hill […]