Category: Roadkill

Dispatches From the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

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Gord Magill takes an in depth look at the problems that lead up to the recent crash on I-35 in Austin Texas, killing 5 people.

Recently, a horrific collision took place along Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, where a commercial transport traveling at high speed crashed into a number of stopped vehicles along a stretch of the interstate that was under construction. 5 people were killed, including an infant and very young child, and another eleven people were sent to hospital, many with critical injuries. It turns out that the driver of the truck, a gentleman by the name of Solomun Weldekeal Araya, was a very recent migrant from Ethiopia that only had his commercial drivers license a scant four months.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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Hear my prayer.

A massive luxury RV parking lot in City of Industry, California, has been taken over by homeless squatters.

The lot, which carries 130 campers worth $6.5 million, has become a crime-ridden homeless encampment over the past two years after a private party who bought the RVs abandoned the area, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.

Videos of the scene show the parking lot riddled with massive piles of trash and one of the campers engulfed in flames.

Fly The Net Zero Skies

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CNN:

• Heathrow closed: London’s Heathrow Airport is completely shut down because of a power outage due to a large fire nearby, causing massive disruption at one of the world’s busiest travel hubs. The fire is now under control, but Heathrow’s backup power supply was also affected.

• Thousands impacted: Heathrow’s closure is expected to affect more than 1,300 flights. An airline analytics firm estimated that “upwards of 145,000” passengers could be impacted, and Heathrow is warning of significant disruption in the coming days. Trains around Heathrow have also been disrupted.

Of course: Heathrow had diesel generators for emergency back-up if the grid went down. Sadly they removed the back-up a few weeks ago in order to meet Green Energy targets.

Don’t Mess With Mandan

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BBC;

A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay more than $660m (£507m) in damages to an oil company for the environmental group’s role in one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history.

Texas-based Energy Transfer also accused Greenpeace of trespass, nuisance and civil conspiracy over the demonstrations nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The lawsuit, filed in state court, argued that Greenpeace was behind an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to Energy Transfer”.

Greenpeace, which vowed to appeal, said last month it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case, ending over 50 years of activism.

h/t Ken

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Bad news for battery plants.

Nikola (NKLA.O) said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges.

The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations.[…]

Phoenix, Arizona-based Nikola, delivered its first vehicle in December 2021. A series of fire incidents involving its electric trucks in 2023 resulted in a recall of all its vehicles and raised safety concerns.

Nikola ramped up production of its hydrogen-powered trucks in 2024, but still lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on every vehicle sold as fleet operators were reluctant to invest in electric truck adoption amid high borrowing costs.

Truck Stop

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Via email;

The Canadian trucking industry will be destroyed by the tariffs. Most of the industry is dependent on cross border shipments. Stopping or slowing those shipments for even a few weeks will force countless companies into bankruptcy.

The vast majority of shipments in North America are moved by small carriers with fleets of 3-30 trucks. I deal with dozens of these companies everyday. All of them rely on factoring companies for operating capital, they have no cash reserves. Many have told me in conversation they have refinanced their homes and sold vehicles to keep their companies afloat. Tariffs will drastically reduce freight volumes in an already slow market, this will drive down freight rates even further in what has been the longest soft freight market in the history of trucking. With no cash reserves these companies will fold.

The tariff issue will be resolved, but not until the government feels they have made all the political hay possible. So what comes next? Skyrocketing freight rates as shippers scramble to catch up and can’t find trucks to get products to market.

There isn’t a good end to this other than securing our border and cracking down on fentanyl production & distribution. We should be embarrassed that our neighbour had to ask.

More, from Gord Magill;

Setting trade and economic arguments aside, one of Trump’s numerous complaints about Canada has been Canada’s wide open door policy to immigration, which has caused a massive increase in illegal migrants crossing the border from Canada into the United States. These lax policies were shared by the Democrats in the US, and opposition to these policies were a major component of Trump’s mandate. Another problem Trump has with Canada is drug smuggling, as the United States has been suffering under a major opioid crisis for decades, amongst other despair inducing addictive substances.

These two issues overlap, and they also overlap with the Canadian trucking industry.

Grab a coffee.

Amazon Pulls Out Of Quebec

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This is not the Great Reset they were promised.

Online retail giant Amazon is pulling out of Quebec, a spokesperson confirmed to CTV News.

The company says it will cease operations over the next two months in seven operation sites, one fulfillment centre, two sorting centres, three delivery stations and one AMXL (extra large) delivery station that is co-located with a sorting centre.

Barbara Agrait, a spokesperson with Amazon, denies that the decision was made following the unionization of 200 employees at Amazon’s DXT4 warehouse in Laval, Que.

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