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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten. Blue semi-truck approaching on a highway from a car's perspective

A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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Ford Let a Timing Belt Rot in Motor Oil for a Decade — Now 135,000 Owners Are One Warning Light From a Dead Engine gray and black ford emblem

Ford Let a Timing Belt Rot in Motor Oil for a Decade — Now 135,000 Owners Are One Warning Light From a Dead Engine

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
A driver on a highway outside Wilmington, Delaware wasn’t doing anything unusual. Just merging into traffic. Then...
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A Michigan Detective Was the Only Officer Certifying Salvage Titles in His Town — Faking Them Got Him 90 Days in Jail a car that has been involved in a car accident

A Michigan Detective Was the Only Officer Certifying Salvage Titles in His Town — Faking Them Got Him 90 Days in Jail

Shawn Henry August 25, 2026 0
Jonathan Chase had one job most drivers never think about: deciding whether a wrecked, flooded, or stripped-for-parts...
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Tesla’s Nearly 3 Million-Car China Recall: What It Means for the U.S. and the Rest of the World white sedan parked beside mountain during daytime

Tesla’s Nearly 3 Million-Car China Recall: What It Means for the U.S. and the Rest of the World

EL Puckett August 25, 2026 0
Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million vehicles in China over an emergency-exit concern, while a second, overlapping...
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A UK Petition Wants to Ban Driverless Taxis. Britain’s New Permitting Rules Show Why 400,000 Drivers Are Nervous Screenshot of the "Stop the introduction of driverless cars" petition on the UK Parliament petitions site

A UK Petition Wants to Ban Driverless Taxis. Britain’s New Permitting Rules Show Why 400,000 Drivers Are Nervous

John Lloyd August 24, 2026 0
A parliamentary petition calling on the UK government to ban commercial driverless taxis has ticked past 1,000...
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Some Rivian R2s Have a Fast-Charging Connector That Can Cook Itself, and Rivian Is Calling Owners One by One A close up of the rear of a white car

Some Rivian R2s Have a Fast-Charging Connector That Can Cook Itself, and Rivian Is Calling Owners One by One

John Lloyd August 24, 2026 0
On August 5, an R2 owner plugged into a Rivian Adventure Network fast charger, watched the session...
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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line police-catch-seven-drivers-turned-highway-race-track-speeding-colorado

Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

John Lloyd August 21, 2026 0
Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic...
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A Chevrolet Camaro Fell 200 Feet Off Newfound Gap Road in the Smokies, and a Tree May Have Saved a Life 775537613_29055467300709407_5148509433919381103_n

A Chevrolet Camaro Fell 200 Feet Off Newfound Gap Road in the Smokies, and a Tree May Have Saved a Life

John Lloyd August 17, 2026 0
Newfound Gap is the high point where U.S. 441 crosses from Tennessee into North Carolina inside Great...
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