Sentences with phrase «road trucks with»

The TRD Off - Road trucks with their fatter 16 - inch tires and Bilstein shocks were the best at filtering out both small and larger bumps.

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The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

With so many new truck drivers needing to be trained, virtual reality could be the road to delivering safe and effective results.

A self - driving Uber was caught on video running a red light, a Google self - driving car collided with a bus, and of course a Tesla failed to «see» a truck that was blocking the road and wound up killing its owner.

So, no, we're not going to have all these diesel trucks all over the road, we're going to replace them with hybrid electric vehicles.

Last year, Seeing Machines signed a deal with construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to install systems in 40,000 of the company's mining trucks that sense when drivers aren't looking at the road or are falling asleep at the wheel and alert them with an alarm and a vibrating seat.

They watch weather reports to advise drivers which trucks should be outfitted with roof - mounted dinghies for use when roads wash out.

The ATA said recruiting problems are caused in part by truck drivers living a difficult, unconventional lifestyle, with long and tiring on - road hours.

GMC is aiming the truck at customers who want a more premium pickup with off - road kit such as a locking rear differential and a 2 - inch lift right off the shelf.

Instead of punishing individual transportation workers whose trucks may be too old, a more comprehensive solution could target the Department of Transportation, with demands to repave worn roads with the porous asphalt configurations used in Europe to reduce tire noise.

BARTONSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE / WYOU)-- We've all shared the road with tractor trailers, but truck drivers have a very different view from behind the wheel than we do.

For the next two years, the newly chosen America's Road Team Captains will tour North America in ATA's Interstate One Image Truck, an American flag emblazoned Volvo VNL 780 with a state - of - the - art truck driving simulator.

Otto is currently testing its self - driving hardware kits on three Volvo trucks on the highways, and plans to work with Class 8 trucks — the heaviest and the largest on U.S. roads.

I wanted to see what those truck drivers deal with in Beltway traffic and how we can safely share the road with them.

So next time a tractor - trailer passes by, or you're at the local grocery store as a truck docks in the delivery bay, you're not just looking at an impressive 18 - wheeler traveling the road with your holiday meal that will stock the shelves, or toys for the children in your family, you're looking at a vital machine for New Hampshire's economic growth, prosperity and future.

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.

Not long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as though the time was just around the corner when human drivers would be sharing the road with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...

In its effort to take the high road of spiritual insearch, theology abolished its own need for theology as such, since it would no longer have truck with scholarly precision or strict rules of interpretation.

The VOC is taking the V * Inspired Campaign on the road this season with Chef Lucas food truck events in Minneapolis and Nashville.

A former Chicago truck driver, Ray could certainly find his way around, but when he called me with an invitation to explore the world of North Carolina barbecue as part of the research for his third book, Dr. BBQ's Barbecue Road Trip, how could I refuse?

Then, keep that Google tab open and look up their PR stunt where Taco Bell helicoptered a food truck into a remote Alaskan town «with no roads leading to it.»

They get on it and suddenly I'm getting snaps from food truck festivals, football games and road trips with geotags and Snapchat filters.

With the spectacularly decorated cargo trucks, Hyundais, rickshaws, and cattle, there were far too many of us for the narrow desert roads.

The Vidalia Onion Committee (VOC) is hitting the road this season by teaming up with the National Turkey Federation to host blogger dinners and food truck events featuring the 13 - year old inspiration and aspiring food truck chef Lucas Hobbs.

That's what happened in this cool little karting track promo, with short course off - road truck racing legend Carl Renezeder taking to an indoor kart circuit in one of his machines.

Now it is a life on wheels with all the problems of such a life: two small daughters who have to sleep on a shelf of the truck Garlits uses as transportation; a wife trying to make a home on the road; short, frantic visits to places like Half Moon Bay and Yellow Belly and Cicero and Oswego; road maps and strong coffee and restless sleep at roadside.

Off the field he had prevented an eight - year - old boy from getting hit by a truck in Boston during an April road trip, and last week, upon making a $ 200,000 donation with his wife, Cynthia, to a children's mental health center in Washington Heights, had proudly revealed that he is seeing two therapists.

Cloudless blue sky, sun turning the asphalt into a skillet, rows of trucks, camps of buses, sweaty crew guys with creative facial hair heaving around huge road cases, laminated signs with arrows: production, dressing rooms, catering.

He also likes to make roads with the store - bought chalk paint we have and then he drives his trucks on them.

By Jillian Lauren Woke up this morning in Atlanta, though the view from the bus window looked exactly like the one in Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Houston... Cloudless blue sky, sun turning the asphalt into a skillet, rows of trucks, camps of buses, sweaty crew guys with creative facial hair heaving around huge road cases, -LSB-...]

No fewer than 13 trucks loaded with goods have been destroyed after a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosive along Maiduguri / Mafa road leading to mass destruction.

In the meantime, the council bosses said the 57 LGAs and LCDAs in the State would deploy security personnel and Vigilante to the main streets in their neighborhood to combat the menace, and also deploy more tippers and trucks to complement ongoing efforts to evacuate waste from road medians and in the communities, just as they urged Community Development Associations (CDAs) and the residents in general to team up with government to restore a clean environment across the State.

The driver of the Metro Mass bus vehicle is believed to have lost control after hitting cattle on the road and collided head - on with the truck.

Self driving trucks promise to make roads safer, reduce emissions and save costs associated with haulage.

International Road Transport Union president Christian Labrot added: «Autonomous trucks will bring many benefits to society, from cost savings and lower emissions to safer roads, and will also help the haulage sector deal with the current shortage of drivers in many parts of the world.

Oddo, who has held two meeting with the DOT and Matteo that mainly focused on the conditions of Staten Island roads, said the trucks would be an important first step towards improving streets by doing more «wear and tear» fixes.

Town officials said the improvement was due to cost - saving efforts including buying used trucks for the town instead of new ones, coating roads with cheaper beet - juice brine before snowstorms instead of using salt, installing high - efficiency LED streetlights, posting legal notices online instead of in print, and hiring part - time snow plow operators to avoid paying overtime for full - time crews.

«A Mack truck moving in the same direction, in an attempt to avoid colliding with the truck entering the road, swerved away from the slow lane to the fast lane.

Details of the road crash are unclear, however, reports suggest his mashed vehicle run into a truck loaded with lumber Friday evening.

The Trucking Association of New York is proud to partner with the NYS Thruway Authority to bring the «Share the Road» program to Service Areas along the Thruway to speak with motorists about driving safely around large trucks and buses.

Additionally, increasing Thruway tolls is a massive unfunded State mandate that will result in greater truck traffic on local roads, causing a negative impact on their safety with increased road maintenance costs borne directly by local taxpayers.

Deepwater port: A deepwater port at the site of the shuttered nuclear power plant in Shoreham, coupled with a connection to the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, could transform traffic by taking many long - haul trucks off our roads.

Jennifer Ross, 48, of Royalton, was driving south at 4:13 p.m. Tuesday when her car collided with a northbound box truck near 3678 Hartland Road, th...

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

By looking at aspects such as load factor (how well the space in / on pallets, crates and trucks is utilized) and the proportion of intermodal transports (where road transport is combined with rail or sea transport), she identified which shipments are most effective to work with, and the best way of doing this.

«You could put one in a pickup truck or a trailer and drive it around with you, but I'm guessing it won't deal very well with the bumps on the road,» says co-author Krish Kotru, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Radar monitors the road up to 250 metres ahead to spot other vehicles and the truck also automatically complies with any speed limits.

Around ten years ago, the first trucks with this new technology hit the roads.

The researchers studied surface acoustic waves in the sun's atmosphere, some of which penetrate to the sun's core, where they interact with gravity waves that have a sloshing motion similar to how water would move in a half - filled tanker truck driving on a curvy mountain road.