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Daily Infographic: IIHS urges quick adoption of speed limiter requirement for trucks
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FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: Winton Motor Carriage Company built the first US truck and semi trailer
Trucks have been around quite a while, coming along shortly after “horseless carriages” arrived in the U.S. in the 1890s. In fact, the first semi-truck was built prior to 1900.
How? Where? Who?
The Winton Motor Carriage Company was founded in 1896 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Alexander Winton, a Scottish-American designer and inventor.
Winton began the Winton Bicycle Company in 1891, but changed from bicycle production when automobiles began to appear....
Daily Infographic: ACT Research cuts Class 8 truck forecast based on supply constraints
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The adventures of finding Ford’s ‘Big Red’
Peter Holderith and his team at The Drive, an automotive news source, went on a mission last year to find a one-of-a-kind, turbine engine, superhighway semi-truck known as “Big Red.” On Wednesday, Holderith announced that the famous vehicle still exists, and better yet, it still runs.
“I got very close in the initial search, and soon after we published the first article I got a tip with a key piece of information that led me to find the truck minutes later,” Holderith wrote in an email to...
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Semi-trucks used in recent suspected sex-trafficking cases in Texas
Authorities in Texas are investigating two recent cases of what they said were planned sex-trafficking operations, both of which involved semi-trucks.
On Friday, the United States Border Patrol in Laredo found a missing girl from Odessa at the Interstate 35 checkpoint. Agents said the girl, whose name and age has not been released, was found inside a tractor-trailer.
On Wednesday, the Cisco Police Department responded to a call of a female who had been seriously injured near a Flying J/Denny’s...
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