Turban Crush.
Footage goes viral of a bus driver playing games on his phone during a route from Edmonton to Calgary with The Canada Bus. pic.twitter.com/MFk2tPFAM1
— YEGWAVE (@yegwave) May 28, 2025
What’s Your Side Hustle?
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Ford EV sales “fall off a cliff”.
The left spent the last 20 years pushing electric cars as a moral imperative. Once the batsignal went out that was okay to torch and vandalize Musk’s cars because they don’t like the cut of his jib, that also signaled that earlier moral imperative has been concluded. Why would anyone go through the headache of owning an electric car when its true believers hate one of its most prominent manufacturers?
“Multiple layers of safety precautions failed that night,”
Post Millennial- Black Hawk pilot Rachel Lobach ignored instructions before mid-air collision over Potomac River
Air traffic controllers had warned the helicopter crew about a nearby passenger airliner, and both Lobach and Eaves acknowledged the warning, opting to proceed under “visual separation.” This is a method where pilots are allowed to continue flying in the area by using their own observations rather than adhering to instructions from air traffic control.
The report said the Black Hawk was only 15 seconds from crossing paths with the passenger jet when Eaves informed Lobach that he believed air traffic control wanted them to turn left toward the east river bank.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Before you click, please ask the children to leave the room.
Against my better judgement update, a screencap for those who can’t view the video. Continue reading
Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
And neither did Virginia Giuffre, maybe. Or maybe she did.
The 41-year-old appeared with a bruised face last week when she posted an Instagram video saying her car had been hit by a speeding school bus as she slowed for a turn.
She said: “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time…”
Police said they had received a report of a “minor crash” between a school bus and a car in Neergabby, about 12 miles from Perth, on 24 March.
“The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day,” said a spokeswoman. “There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.”
A few days after the Instagram video, it emerged Ms Giuffre had been charged with allegedly breaching a family violence restraining order.
Ms Giuffre is reported to have separated from her husband. The case was due back in court today (9 April)
No Shift, Sherlock
A recent survey from AutoPacific has suggested that drivers aren’t terribly pleased with some of the technology that’s being installed into modern vehicles, particularly the features that are designed to police behavior.
Dispatches From the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
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.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
New York City: A man found dead on the R train early Wednesday morning was robbed by a female passenger — and later sexually violated and robbed again by a male passenger, police said.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Regina’s Transit Budget:
Transit Security: $0
Electric Buses: $27 million pic.twitter.com/GxJ1sY1JUu— Just Bins (@JustBins) April 3, 2025
DEI The Friendly Skies
Delta Crash in Toronto: What the TSB Report Reveals
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
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
• 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.
🚨 Heathrow substation on fire—just in time for Britain’s Net Zero master plan! 🔥✈️
No flights, no power, no problem! Soon, we won’t need airports at all—just bikes, windmills, and virtue signalling.
Are there any redundancies in place? pic.twitter.com/KV50BMnFpm
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) March 21, 2025
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
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
Seems Legit
National Post- Actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife, 63, and dog found dead in their New Mexico home
Foul play was not suspected, but authorities did not release circumstances of their deaths and said an investigation was ongoing
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
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.
Mischief Is Important
And sometimes mischief is just mischief.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Found On Road Dead: Ford, $F, lost about $37,000 per EV sold in Q4 2024, per Sawyer Merritt.
“We are one of the fastest growing trucking company”
Truck Stop
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.