The state’s warehouse and distribution industry is bracing for the worst with Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s plan for steep toll increases on roads.
Every night, columns of hulking freight trucks invade China’s major cities with a reverberating roar and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims headlights.
Across Britain, trucks are increasingly being directed by G.P.S. navigation devices that fail to appreciate that the shortest route is not always the best route.
A parked garbage truck weakened a sidewalk grate that later gave way under a woman who walked on it in May, Con Edison said yesterday. When the grate collapsed, the woman, Jessica Hinksmon, fell into a 10-foot-deep transformer vault beneath the sidewalk on 51st Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. Ms. Hinksmon suffered minor injuries. A spokesman for Con Edison, Michael Clendenin, said a videotape showed that the truck was on the grate for at least 10 minutes, and that …
The latest battleground in the federalism wars at the Supreme Court is an unlikely one: the state of Maine, which is trying to prevent under-age consumers from buying cigarettes over the Internet.
Residents complain that trucks take illegal short cuts along their quiet residential streets instead of following prescribed routes to the dozens of local air cargo companies.