Sentences with phrase «own tractor»

But keep in mind approximately 70 percent of all freight in the U.S. is moved by tractor - trailers: Whatever you just bought, whether at a store or online... chances are it got part of the way to you on a tractor - trailer.

And keep in mind that the vast majority of tractor - trailer drivers are not just consummate professionals, they're better drivers than we are.

In 1979, Larry and another brother, Brian, rode their father's Case 1570 Spirit of»76 tractor to Washington, D.C., for the protest rally Tractorcade.

Sometimes... well, sometimes a tractor - trailer just seems big and scary and you wish they weren't on the highway at all.

Sometimes tractor - trailers go too slowly.

Willemse was a pioneer in what's now known as precision agriculture, and which may be the biggest advance in farming since tractors replaced horses.

He detaches the tractor and uses it to load the trailer with bales.

Otto, the startup behind the self - driving tractor trailer that recently completed a 120 - mile beer delivery, will be on hand to discuss automation and the effects it will have on society.

If you're doing 40 or 45 in a 55 zone, and there aren't legal places to pass, and four or five cars have lined up behind you... pretend you're a tractor: Pull off and let everyone by.

The app simulates tractor planting, showing how many seeds per inch are being planted.

In the U.S., a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into the 2016 death of Tesla driver Joshua Brown concluded that his over-reliance on Autopilot contributed to his car's collision with a tractor - trailer.

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

It's not like building a lawn tractor.»

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

Capital Expenditures: In Ryder's business, capital expenditures are generally used to purchase revenue earning equipment (trucks, tractors, and trailers) primarily to support the ChoiceLease product line and secondarily to support the commercial rental product line within Ryder's FMS business segment.

A Nando's spokesman said: «Animal welfare is very important to us and we source 100 per cent of our chickens from suppliers that meet the UK Red Tractor standards.

SpaceX employs 370, it uses a converted tractor - trailer as a control room, and its CEO, a man with no prior experience with rockets, doubles as chief engineer.

The machines are hooked up to tractors and are used to scan entire fields, only spraying the appropriate targets.

(Recently, an autonomous tractor trailer from Otto completed a 120 - mile beer delivery.)

«If growth and prosperity were about job formation the solution would be simple: abolish tractors, cars, ATMs, light bulbs and the internet,» he writes.

The system didn't detect a tractor - trailer that had turned in front of the car in bright sunshine, and Brown also failed to react.

When he couldn't pull them out with his truck, he went home and came back with his tractor, which did the job.

Finally, here are the things that all those tractor trailer drivers on the highway wish you'd take into consideration.

The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.

So I put my head in magical fairyland sand, stubbornly insisting that my customers would be tractor - beamed into my budding practice,» she writes, «And then I ate canned food and spaghetti for a long, long time.»

The truck's driver, 60 - year - old James Bradley, told federal authorities he had been unaware the tractor - trailer was filled with people.

I squint and stare at the tractor - trailer in front of me while a reckless driver swerves between lanes at 80 miles per hour to my left.

Or your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.»

April 4 - Shares in U.S. exporters of everything from planes to tractors were volatile on Wednesday after China proposed duties on key U.S. imports including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals in retaliation to Trump administration tariff plans.

Anthony Levandowski, one of the architects of Google's self - driving car, left the company to start Otto, which retrofits tractor - trailers with autonomous technology.

Even though they've sold 26 tractors over the past year, they have no negative feedback to date.

He ran the company out of his home «until it took over» and the tractor - trailers thundering down the street threatened neighborhood tranquillity.

Larger items, like the tractors and farm equipment sold by Allen Bishop and his wife, Jeanette, both 56, need other arrangements.

* Aker Solutions will deliver electrical wireline logging services and wireline tractor services at the oil and gas fields where Dong Energy operates on the Danish and Norwegian continental shelves.

While young, Provenzano received the nickname «The Tractor» for determination displayed in a mob career that began as a hitman.

UPS, Tractor Supply and Harley - Davidson also fell sharply for the week, rounding out the five worst S&P 500 performers for the week.

One day, [Tom] was on his way to work when he had a near - fatal accident with a tractor - trailer.

It attaches to a tractor.

So we built him a 53 - foot tractor - trailer with walls that would withstand it.

The machine is installed onto a tractor.

Enter Melnyk, who built the old tractor data into a sophisticated database.

In part to rectify that, Chris MacAllister, president of MacAllister Machinery, a distributor of Caterpillar tractors in Indianapolis, designed a bonus plan that encouraged his five managers (including the sales director) to collaborate.

The Toronto - based company leases industrial equipment, such as tractors, private jets and construction machinery.

Last month, a driver using Tesla's autopilot service died after a collision with a tractor - trailer, and several of Google's cars have logged minor accidents.

After I joined Google and stopped working on robots — I'd built some self - driving tractors on farms in the meantime — I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby.

After the fatal accident Tesla said, «Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.»

Named for Halloween, Carbone's favorite holiday, the company scares the bejesus out of willing customers at interactive events, including the Haunted Hayride (a tractor - drawn trek through the abandoned Griffith Park Zoo) and Ghost Ship (which sails out on short horror cruises).

How about farming, any electric combines and tractors coming any time soon?

Like a dispatcher, Pedro then directed the couriers to drop - off spots where tractor - trailers were waiting to haul the money to L.A. and eventually across the border.

In September, he held a press conference with reporters on a Sunday to talk about the latest version of Autopilot, which uses a radar system that he claims could have prevented Brown's accident, which may have been caused when the Autopilot system failed to detect the tractor trailer because of its high ground clearance.