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How to survive an earthquake while driving a big rig
When your peaceful drive gets interrupted by severe vibrations or worse, you could be driving through an earthquake. Especially, if you are in one of these top 10 most earthquake prone states. Truckers who’ve driven in one say at first it feels like something’s wrong with your truck. Once it’s over—well, it might not be really over. […]
May 15, 2015
Technology
What it’s like to operate a self-driving big rig: First ride in Freightliner’s autonomous Inspiration (PHOTOS)
I just finished a drive into the future. And it was pretty uneventful. I mean that in the most positive sense possible. Last week, Freightliner unveiled both an $80 million SuperTruck it previewed at the Mid-America Trucking Show and the never-before-seen Inspiration, the first road-legal autonomous rig. And I was able to take a short circuit behind the […]
May 11, 2015
Construction Equipment
Ford LTL semi truck jumps more than 100 feet through the air
Can’t help but just smile at this one. When the video starts, it doesn’t seem like driver Ash Nichols has gotten enough speed behind this Ford LTL. In the end though, he has more than enough to launch an impressive 101.9 feet through the air. The amount of ground clearance he gets is pretty amazing […]
December 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
High winds knock over six big rigs
Mother Nature huffed and she puffed and she blew over six big rigs on a segment of North California’s Interstate 580, according to an Associated Press report. The crashes occurred near Tracy, California, in San Joaquin County, beginning about 6 p.m. on October 27 and continuing until about 5 a.m. the next day, according to […]
November 14, 2013
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