CALUMET CITY, ill., (WLS) — Three armored trucks were robbed Wednesday in the south suburbs and Chicago, the FBI and Chicago police said Wednesday. The first robbery occurred in Calumet City around 9:35 a.m. as the Brinks truck was parked …
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/california-requires-half-of-heavy-trucks-sales-to-be-electric-by-2035.html The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it’s granting California the legal authority to require that half of all heavy-duty truck sales in the state be fully electric by 2035, an ambitious standard that will go beyond federal requirements. …
Seriously, this is f#cked up… https://twitter.com/_/status/1635485521525854211 https://twitter.com/_/status/1635486875463942145 h/t John Dutton
German (!) water cannons have been spotted on the highway to The Hague, where the farmers’ protest will be held tomorrow. Earlier this week the mayor announced he might deploy army trucks. This is what ‘the right to protest’ looks …
via iheart: The Institute for Justice (IJ), a Virginia-based nonprofit law firm, sent a letter to the city council last week urging them to “repeal” the temporary ban. In response to a crime spike and disastrous shooting earlier this summer, officials …
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Don’t count on seeing electric garbage trucks plowing snow from city streets any time soon. The city Department of Sanitation’s goals to become carbon neutral are clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles. The department aims to switch all 6,000 …
by Boo_Randy What’s “unacceptable” is that essential workers are seeing their purchasing power & standard of living destroyed by the Fed’s debasement of the currency, and inflation rates far in excess of what our lying, Soviet-style CPI stats say it …
by Amy S. FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business capital of the world — FBN launched in …
Funny how that works. Jam a hundred unneeded electronic do-dads in there until they’re too expensive. View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com h/t CharlieFoxtrot
By now, many who have been following this story know that the official narrative of the tragedy that left 19 students and two teachers dead has shifted, with early accounts being amended or retracted. The San Antonio Express-News on Thursday …
by SprScuba Okay, so here’s the deal. Rivian has absolutely nothing going for it. It can’t break into the market for consumers because its target market doesn’t know trucks at all, and the market it could feasibly advertise to has …
by Chris Black The most embarrassing thing for Americans if Justin Trudeau effectively removes the truckers from Ottawa will be that Trudeau will have proven himself more effective at governing than Trump. He basically already has by going after their …
Gas guzzlers, be gone! Say goodbye to your beloved pickup truck. Legislation recently signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul bans the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Last week, Governor Hochul announced the proposed ban as a part of …
Australia’s last urea factory is no longer producing the substance and exports of the chemical are banned by China. Half of the long-haul fleet of trucks on the road have a diesel engine that require urea to run and without …
The same dealer has a 2022 Ford F-150 SuperCrew Cab V-6 on order, with an MSRP of $57,500. The dealer slapped an addendum of $10,595 on this truck, bringing the advertised price of $67,995, or 18% over MSRP. It’s not …
by confoundedinterest17 US inflation remained about the same in August as it was in July. CPI YoY fell ever so slightly from 5.4% in July to 5.3% in August. Real hourly earnings remain negative. The source of consumer inflation? Gasoline prices rose …
How do you sell more new vehicles when they last longer every year? You don’t! Over two decades of stagnation in vehicle sales interrupted by plunges. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The average age of all cars and light trucks on the …
by Michael Snyder Our enemies now understand that you can completely paralyze America by taking out just a handful of pipelines. Even though all of us knew that any gasoline shortages were just going to be temporary, the shut down …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Americans love paying big profit margins for big equipment, and automakers love them for it, but total sales are declining, and something doesn’t add up. The average transaction price of the vehicles sold by Fiat Chrysler …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A deep dive based on the report by the Federal Highway Administration for 2017 compared to 2009. When I entered the auto industry in 1985, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the average age of …
by John Rubino In a world of cheap emerging market labor and ever-more-dexterous robots, inflation – especially the wage-driven variety – seems like yesterday’s news. But maybe not. It’s late in the cycle and things are getting tight, with pretty …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmf1DGywt28 Russia Seen Moving Military Trucks Into Syria City of Douma
