17 Aug Course Trips Up Second Round of Competitors at NTDC COLUMBUS, Ohio — While the diminishing front stop problem on the course of the 81st National Truck Driving Championships tested most of the country’s elite drivers on the tournament’s second day of competition, a few drivers appeared to figure it out. Read more...
17 Aug Second-Day Drivers Use Extra Time to Study Course COLUMBUS, Ohio — Although competing on the second day of the National Truck Driving Championships allows drivers 24 additional hours to stir up nerves about the course, it also gives them extra time to analyze every turn, stop, cone and duck. Read more...
17 Aug NAIC Inspection Practicals Begin COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a partitioned section of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, removed from the occasional staccato of horns, the cheers of supporters and the deep voice of the announcer moderating the National Truck Driving Championships, uniformed law enforcement officers began to conduct vehicle inspections. Read more...
17 Aug Tesla CEO Musk Tells Newspaper He’s Cracking Under Stress What do you do when your CEO confesses that he’s cracking under the stress of his job? That’s the question that the nine board members of electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. must answer after Elon Musk, the company’s impulsive leader, admitted to The New York Times that work is rattling his nerves in what he described as the most “difficult and painful year of my career.” Read more...
17 Aug Bridgestone Launches New Drive Tire Bridgestone Americas Inc. announced the expansion of its Firestone commercial truck tire portfolio with the launch of the Firestone FD711 drive tire. Read more...
17 Aug Dayton Parts Acquires Security Steel Supply Co. Dayton Parts announced the acquisition of Security Steel Supply Co., a distributor of steel bars for the leaf spring industry. Read more...
17 Aug Love’s New Oregon Site to Have 72 Truck Parking Spaces Love’s Travel Stops opened a facility in Millersburg, Ore., off Interstate 5. Read more...
17 Aug Pennsylvania Borough Could Be New Home for $7.5 Million, 80-Bay Trucking Facility JERMYN, Pa. — The borough could be the new home of a $7.5 million, 80-bay trucking facility for R+L Carriers. Read more...
17 Aug US Threatens More Sanctions, Keeping Alive Turkish Crisis ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey and the United States exchanged new threats of sanctions Aug. 17, keeping alive a diplomatic and financial crisis that is threatening the economic stability of the NATO country. Read more...
17 Aug Trump Asks SEC to Look Into Frequency of Corporate Reports NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he’s asking federal regulators to look into the effectiveness of the quarterly financial reports that publicly traded companies are required to file. Read more...