An Italian couple were killed Thursday when a motorway bridge collapsed on top of their car, police said, as debate sparked over the reasons for the second tragedy of its kind in just over four months. Antonella Viviani, 54, and her husband Emidio Diomede, 60, died at the scene after the bridge, which was undergoing maintenance work, gave way onto […]
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A bus overturned in Argentina on Saturday near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, killing at least 19 people and leaving 20 injured, officials said. Operated by the Chilean company Turbus, the bus was traveling from the province of Mendoza toward Chile with 40 people on board when the accident occurred in the Andes region, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 […]
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The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled new fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles, which it said would both reduce carbon emissions and save drivers billions of dollars at the pump. The standards, unveiled as President Barack Obama enters the last five months of his final term, apply to heavy duty vehicles which account for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions […]
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Danish oil and shipping conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Thursday it would split the the group into separate businesses for transport and energy as it faces headwinds in both sectors. “The industries in which we are operating are very different, and both face very different underlying fundamentals and competitive environments,” chairman Michael Pram Rasmussen said in a statement.
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Leveraction [August 26, 2016 @ 08:40AM] This is a very ignorant plan/idea. It is obvious the DOT does not run the roads of America daily. We already have most corporate owned trucks only running between 60 and 68 mph max. Get on any Interstate and they back up 7 – 10 deep side by side and cause huge back-ups. I […]
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Federal safety regulators are proposing that heavy-duty vehicles be equipped with speed-limiting devices set to a specific maximum speed. A notice of proposed rulemaking was issued jointly on Aug. 26 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The NPRM comes after a decade-long push by trucking and safety advocates to put […]
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The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) says truck and bus tyre manufacturers in China are dumping tyres in the U.S. at less than fair market value, and those tyres should be subject to tariffs of at least 20%. The tariffs are retroactive. The DOC announced its preliminary results Aug. 29.
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Eleven South African military officials were killed on Friday when the bus transporting them fell down an embankment. A report from Johannesburg said that a total of 42 military officials were travelling in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in centrally located Free State province. It said that the officers were on their way to a cultural centre inside the […]
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German auto giant Volkswagen said on Monday it would halt production at six plants for several days as a legal dispute with two key suppliers deepened. Around 27,700 workers at factories in Emden, Zwickau, Kassel, Salzgitter, Brunswick, and the firm’s home base of Wolfsburg would see their work hours slashed by the end of August, the group said in a […]
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It has been an eventful few days for Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, an Indian living in Dubai. In the space of a week, he survived a crash landing at Dubai airport then won $1m in a lottery organised by the airport’s duty free operator, Gulf News reported. The 62-year-old was flying home from holidays with family in India when the Boeing […]
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China has completed production of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, state media has said, the latest effort in the country’s program to wean itself off dependence on foreign aviation firms. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) unveiled the first of the new planes, dubbed the AG600, Saturday in the southern port city of Zhuhai, the official Xinhua news […]
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At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, fire service officials said. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track near the town of Andria, near Bari. The chief of the firefighting service in Bari said […]
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