Sentences with phrase «road truck of»

When you make an off - road truck of this caliber, it tends to look the part.

The brand new 2017 Colorado ZR2 is an off - road truck of firsts.

Not exact matches

Since last year about 1.4 million commercial trucks, over 4 % of the total, have disappeared from America's roads.

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.

While trucks and roads have improved greatly during the past quarter century, the average age of an American trucker has risen to 49.

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.

I used to wash large trucks during my school holidays.The trucks had sometimes been on the road for up to a year, and they were not shown a lot of love or attention during their rental contracts.

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.

A decision that rewards a group of companies that manufacture roughly 5 % of the trucks on the road today is astounding — even given president Trump's and administrator Pruitt's antipathy toward environmental regulations.

These innocuous - sounding «glider kits» account for only 5 % of the trucks on the road today but are growing in numbers and are likely to emit one third of all soot and NOX pollution from long - haul trucks by 2025.

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

Digital Signage Whether in your offices or on the road on the side of a truck, taking your message to the masses has becomes so much easier.

Every American car brand, including Tesla, has some kind of on - or off - road truck or SUV, and many of them are delivering higher transaction prices and selling better than companies expected.

In this vein, the Aftershokz Bluez 2 headphones are great for outdoor runners and cyclists who'd like to move through their neighborhood without constantly being in fear of a stray truck careening off the road beside them.The lightweight headset works wirelessly through Bluetooth and fits comfortably around your head, even for extended workout sessions.

The first stage of trials will be carried out on test tracks, and will try and iron out details like how close the trucks should be and what roads will be suitable, the Department for Transport said in a press release.

The concern is that the trucks moving in tight formation could block the view of signs and other road features for others.

After passing through the market town of Aguacatán, where women in white - and - red huipiles sell everything from garlic to geese, I headed 45 minutes up a mountain to the village of Chex, where I found a cargo truck that had careened over the side of a road.

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.

On the other side of the road however was a much more interesting site: Pripyat's old militia station, which was full of old vehicles: Cars, buses, trucks, dredgers, even a small tank.

The Forbes article Financial Planner Takes Tough - Love Money Advice On The Road reports on the first financial planning truck I've heard of.

In the case of Tesla's Autopilot, one limitation was that the system could not detect a truck trailer that crossed the road in front of the victim's Tesla.

In fact, roughly 70 percent of the nation's freight is moved by nearly 32 million trucks on the road, day in and day out.

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.

That number, however, refers only to the gross vehicle weight (GVW) of the Tesla Semi and is, in fact, exactly the same number used by every Class 8 truck on the road.

The CEO of Navistar issued his electric challenge early this year, declaring that by 2025 his company would have more electric trucks on the road than Tesla (Navistar has 11 % of the Class 8 truck market and is partially owned by Volkswagen).

Security was tight in Washington, where military trucks and guards blocked almost every intersection near the rally amid a huge police presence, and in other cities where marches and rallies forced the closing of major roads.

When California - based trucking tech upstart Starsky Robotics ceded control of their truck to a combination of sensors, technology and luck, they became the first player in the space that we know of to oversee an autonomous drive on a public road without a person in the cab.

The concept behind Otto is to produce an aftermarket kit comprised of radar and camera sensors that, when harnessed to proprietary software, will allow the nation's 350,000 owner - operator truckers to keep their trucks on the road longer without cutting into their carefully monitored driving time.

For the majority of that 120 - mile trip, the truck's driver left his seat and observed the road from the comfort of the sleeper berth.

And most of the fuel delivered as part of the relief effort was stuck in San Juan because roads weren't passable and truck drivers couldn't get to work.

Conversely, the extreme bumpiness of a truck's ride means that those systems need to be better isolated from road harshness than their automotive counterparts.

I'm one of 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads working to safely deliver the goods that keep our lives and economy moving, but on my latest trip, my truck is longer and heavier than usual and I couldn't be prouder.

«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.

The brutalities of the Chinese regime have also had a toxic effect on China's public moral culture, as was demonstrated last year in a widely - viewed YouTube video: a truck driver in a Chinese city ran over a small child who was crawling across the street, stopped» and then ran over the child again, as if the toddler were so much road - kill.

There are difficult moral choices for the pilots of passenger planes (or cruise ships), for capital punishment, for terminating certain kinds or road rage, involving burning propane trucks (BLEVE)..

Down the road in Akron, the state's department of health had to send another one of their refrigerated trucks to the local morgue, where they too found themselves overcapacity this summer.

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.

Not long after I heard that debate, I learned that the father of an acquaintance was walking his dog in the country when a truck accidentally left the road and hit him.

The truck driver saw Dawie, but thought he was just picking up a hat and instead of slowing down the driver changed lanes, and hit him on the wrong side of the road.

We only have one truck on the road that has to stop overnight a couple of times a week because of the distance he has to drive.»

Soon, he was navigating the island's primitive dirt roads to deliver beer off the back of his pick - up truck.

«That will save a lot of trucks from being on the road reducing our carbon footprint,» Argyelan says.

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?

«Unfortunately, we live at the end of a dirt road, and the trucks couldn't get in to pick up all that flour.

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

Also new this year is the addition of two gourmet food trucks, a fun trend happening around the country, as top chefs put their award winning restaurant menus «on the road» in city streets, parks and catered events.

I'd give more leeway to Rivera if he had say, been hit by a truck while on the sidewalk, but the guy took himself out when he was drunk driving on the wrong side of the road and hit somebody else's car.

There appeared to be no telltale symptoms of distress, but reports quickly surfaced that Bironas had threatened other motorists and even tried running a truck full of college kids off the road.

In the commercial, a puppy is trying to find its way back home after a bump on the road caused the dog to fall out of the back of a truck.

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.