What Does a Poor Bridge Rating Mean?
A 50-year-old bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh had been rated as poor on a recent inspection report, but transportation officials and engineering experts cautioned that doesn’t necessarily signal imminent danger for the thousands of other U.S. bridges with the same designation.
January 31, 2022Young Fan of USPS Gets Own Mini-Mail Truck
All 7-year-old Jacob Hayward wanted for his birthday was to tour the local post office. The young cancer patient got that and much more, thanks to the generosity of his community mail carrier.
January 30, 2022Ohio Lured Intel’s Chip Plant With $2B in Incentives
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio offered Intel Corp. incentives worth roughly $2 billion to secure a new $20 billion chipmaking factory that the company says will help alleviate a global shortage and create a new technology hub in the Midwest.
January 28, 2022Biden Visits Collapsed Bridge, Touts Infrastructure Needs
PITTSBURGH — Arriving just hours after a serious bridge collapse, President Joe Biden stared into the cratered muddy earth where the aging span fell early Jan. 28, striking evidence supporting the $1 trillion infrastructure law he already had planned to tout on his trip here.
January 28, 2022‘Tens of Millions’ of COVID Tests Are in the Mail
About 60 million households in the U.S. have ordered at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government and “tens of millions” of tests have been shipped out by the U.S. Postal Service, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.
January 28, 2022TMC Eyes Automated Driving Systems With New Recommended Practices
TMC has “turned a hat trick” in pursuing three goals for its development of prospective Recommended Practices (RPs) covering automated vehicles.
January 28, 2022Bridge Collapses in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH — A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Jan. 28, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet and form a human chain to reach occupants of a bus that had plummeted with the span into a park ravine.
January 28, 2022Mack Trucks, Military Team Up to Create Combat-Ready Dump Truck
Mack Trucks Inc. is manufacturing a four-axle, heavy-duty dump truck for the U.S. Army that is offered with either a standard cab with a special, poison gas-resistant coating or a heavily armored cab.
January 28, 2022Trailer GHG Ruling Muted by California Rules, Industry's Direction
A D.C. court of appeals ruling exempts trailers from federal greenhouse gas and fuel-efficiency rules, but California mandates will create the same technology standards for many fleets, while others are adopting the technology because of the economic case for it.
January 28, 2022DOT Announces Strategy to Address Increases in Roadway Deaths
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Jan. 27 released a multibillion-dollar plan that calls for actions to address what it called “a national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.”
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