We collected enough supplies to fill six or seven 18-wheelers.
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Example, self-driving 18-wheelers putting a bunch of drivers out of work.
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The company is developing technology that will enable 18-wheelers to drive autonomously.
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Sometimes the protesters hijack 18-wheelers to block the main Francisco Fajardo Highway through Caracas.
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Outside, through my small, cloudy window, there was nothing but mountains, and 18-wheelers driving by.
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Their efforts snowballed and they were able to gather enough supplies to fill multiple 18-wheelers.
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It's on yard signs and t-shirts and magnets stuck to the back of 18-wheelers.
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The problem is distribution...It's a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers.
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Collect a few hundred and you'll be able to jump the length of a few 18-wheelers.
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It feeds directly onto a long straightaway where 18-wheelers and commuters barrel through at high velocity.
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Soon, hundreds of 18-wheelers were backed up in a line that stretched for miles outside the terminal.
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Starsky Robotics is building a fleet of 18-wheelers that are semi-autonomous but remotely controlled by humans.
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It also looked accidental that the 18-wheelers buzzing along the overpass 50 feet away did so without incident.
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Increasingly, smugglers are relying on 18-wheelers, locking migrants in the trailers, often hidden behind the loads of cargo.
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The family had evacuated its larger, more lucrative shrimp on 18-wheelers before the storm, and its shrimping boats were safely upstream.
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This is what you see with things like large drones taking off from aircraft carriers or cars and 18-wheelers turned driverless.
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He sends out two 18-wheelers a month loaded with bottles and kegs, accounting for about 30 percent of the beer he produces.
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Freight trucks (semis, 18-wheelers, tractor trailers, what have you) are so ubiquitous on US highways that we scarcely give them any thought.
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All of the wrapped presents were strewn across the highway and ground into holiday chum by 18-wheelers moving at 90 miles an hour.
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The threat of automation is looming over the trucking industry, with predictions that self-driving 18-wheelers will replace the large workforce in the future.
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The gaps in Trump&aposs knowledge — including his ignorance that 18-wheelers run on diesel, not gasoline — contrast with his interactions with the trucking industry.
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The entire stage backdrop is camo, behind 18-wheelers packed with fresh cut logs and a podium that is literally made out of bales of hay.
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For example, multiple people have died in separate incidents where Teslas slammed into 18-wheelers crossing highways that, for whatever reason, Autopilot did not properly recognize.
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In Great Big Story's latest video in their "Human Condition" series, viewers meet three of the drivers preserving the culture, and they show off their respective 18-wheelers.
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It's only here, just off I-94, that the stillness is disturbed by the downshifting diesel engines and hissing air brakes of 18-wheelers pulling into the weigh station.
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Preliminary orders for the big 18-wheelers that haul freight along the highways of the United States, Canada and Mexico reached 42,300 trucks, up 4973 percent from 22,082 in September 2017.
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But after dropping out of school, he moved into other lines of work, running a gas station, traveling as part of the merchant marine and repairing the tires of 18-wheelers.
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More than a few companies are working to deliver 18-wheelers that eliminate the human behind the wheel, drastically reduce their workload, or relocate them to a driving simulator in a cubicle.
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Buses, 18-wheelers, and commuter vehicles aren't exactly known for speed, but with the arrival of XFC batteries that may soon change—even if they never make it onto the Formula E speedway.
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Every morning, at towns in Texas like Brownsville and McAllen, fleets of 18-wheelers packed with cheap consumer goods — some of them illicit — rumble over international bridges, slowing down only to shift gears.
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Drivers navigating the last flat stretch of the drive on Interstate 35 south to Laredo roll past gates to ranches, U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles and 18-wheelers hauling goods to and from Mexico.
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Many, especially men, travel on open platform trailers used to transport steel and cars, or get in the freight containers of 18-wheelers and ride with one of the back doors open to provide air flow.
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Orders for Class 8 highway trucks, the 18-wheelers that haul freight across the country, fell 25 percent to 284,000 vehicles in 2015, and could drop to as low as 250,000 this year, according to industry forecasters.
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He wants to shift the world to sustainable energy, using electricity generated by the sun to power a range of vehicles, from cars, to SUVs, to busses, and yes, Class 8 trucks—the massive 18 wheelers that loom over all other freeway traffic.
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Yet Taras Grescoe conflates emissions from 18-wheelers with those from passenger cars, while laying blame on diesel for all traffic, health, emissions and air pollution problems — all in an attempt to say that the new generation of diesel is not clean.
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It creeps away from the Mississippi River and passes through this speed-trap town on the way to the Gulf of Mexico, a liquid median between the parallel roads that take unceasing punishment from the 18-wheelers that service the offshore oil rigs.
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Believe me, I recognize the irony: There I was, driving through a parched landscape with a full tank of gas, on a pilgrimage to do nothing more than watch a flower bloom, while the hot winds from the 18-wheelers shook my whole car as they passed.
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John Hernandez works at Swift Transportation — one of the largest trucking businesses in the U.S. When Hernandez was driving one of the company's 18-wheelers in Texas and lost control, ending up with three herniated discs in his spine, he assumed his workers' compensation would cover the cost of his surgery.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. orders for heavy duty trucks in June were down 34 percent from the same month last year to a four-year low as trucking firms were holding off on buying new 18-wheelers amid a weak freight environment, according to preliminary data released by a freight transportation forecaster on Wednesday.
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The rule, announced last week by the Environmental Protection Agency, imposes tough new fuel economy standards on the 18-wheelers, buses, delivery trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles that make up only 5 percent of the vehicles on the road but account for 123 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions of the transportation sector.
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After transporting the whale's remains from the Atlantic coast to Ontario—a task that required 18-wheelers, since blue whales are the largest animals ever to exist on Earth—Fair and his colleagues at Research Casting International in Trenton, along with folks from the ROM, placed the gigantic bones in shipping containers full of manure.
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He hired more employees for a shrinking workspace. Finally, when 18-wheelers started pulling up to Kassem’s residential address to deliver pallets, it was time to move.
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"Mayor may declare state of emergency", National Post, 4 July 2002, A8; Lisa Priest, "Endless queues of 18-wheelers test city's patience to the limit", Globe and Mail, 29 August 2002, A11. Hurst was re-elected in 1994, 1997 and 2000, each time by a significant margin.
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It has many potholes and is very narrow. It is the only road that goes from the main port in Lomé to the northern part of the region, so there are all types of traffic that travel on it ranging from 18-wheelers, motto's, taxis cars, bicycles, and people traveling on foot. Safety is a priority while traveling on this road.
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Miley was born in Hammond, Louisiana, but grew up in Loranger, Louisiana, a town of 6,100 residents and 1,924 households. His father, Wendell, was a mechanic for 18 wheelers. Miley attended Loranger High School and Southeastern Louisiana University, where he played college baseball for the Southeastern Louisiana Lions baseball team. In 2007, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
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The film portrays the long history of its one-of- a-kind prom. Some of the students are going to college after graduation; others are headed to the military. The film gives an inside look at everything from the students' selection of gowns to dinner. The celebration begins with a rowdy parade where students are shown riding fire engines, 18-wheelers, and even elephants through the city streets.
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In May 2019, the Postal Service announced that it will be releasing a pilot of self-driving trucks to haul mail across the U.S. The 18-wheelers were developed by startup company, TuSimple. The pilot will last two weeks, making five total round trips to cities across the country. In early May 2020, the USPS's board of governors confirmed that Louis DeJoy would be the new postmaster general.
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Rolling meth labs can be concealed on or in vehicles as large as 18 wheelers or as small as motorcycles. Rolling labs are more difficult to detect than stationary ones and can be often hidden amidst legal cargo on big trucks. Many recent rolling lab discoveries were the result of an officer just "stumbling" onto them. Improved officer training and checking suspicious vehicles with K-9 units may allow increased detection.
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The Sheraton hotel and Rusheon Junior High School also sustained roof damage and broken windows. As the tornado traveled along Interstate 20, several 18-wheelers were toppled by the winds. It continued parallel to Interstate 20 into the Airline Drive Business District, where it produced widespread F3 damage. In this area, numerous businesses were damaged or completely leveled, including Pizza Hut, the Best Western, the Master Hosts Inn, Whataburger, Thrifty Liquor and K-Mart.
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Circle S at MM17 on the Original 29 handles some 3,500 cars a year. Furthermore, there is a shuffle train between the two feed mills. This was billed as an added bonus to L&C; operation of the SB. Formerly, 18-wheelers, up to 60 a week, handled this traffic. The L&C; owns a fleet of boxcars— cars built in 1979, cars built in 1996—that were used primarily by GAF, which manufactures rolled roofing-mat material.
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National speed trap exchange; accidents on the bridge - Retrieved 19 April 2013 Accidents along the bridge can be problematic as the Atchafalaya Basin is sparsely inhabited. In 1999, Governor Mike Foster lowered the speed limit on the bridge from 70 MPH to 60 MPH. In 2003, the Louisiana Legislature enacted new traffic regulations for the bridge. The speed limit for 18-wheelers was lowered to 55 MPH, and they must remain in the right lane while crossing the bridge.
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In Jensen Beach, Florida, the main line of the Florida East Coast Railway running north–south bisects the two-lane roundabout at the junction of Jensen Beach Boulevard running east–west. It hosts three other roads and the service entrance to a large shopping plaza. Boom barriers line the railway crossings. The landscaped central island bisected by the tracks was originally curbed/kerbed, but 18-wheelers had trouble negotiating the roundabout, so the curbs were replaced with painted concrete strips.
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These accidents include two separate occasions of the support beams melting after crashes by 18-wheelers, and the numerous collisions that happen every year, result from the junction with I-20 and I-59. In 2004, following the death of President Ronald Reagan, a lengthy segment of I-65 from Jefferson County to Limestone County was designated the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway. The sign designating the north end of the segment includes a statement from Reagan's speech at Point Mallard Aquatic Center in nearby Decatur on July 4, 1984.
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The truck route was designated in an attempt to alleviate the truck traffic in the congested downtown area, which includes the campus of St. Johnsbury Academy, a private secondary school. "St. Johnsbury officials still hope to persuade the state to increase weight limits on Interstates in an effort to keep 18-wheelers away from St. Johnsbury Academy. Selectmen contend heavy trucks passing through the Academy campus present a danger to students, and a nuisance for drivers." Since the truck route utilizes two Interstate Highways, the maximum weight limit allowed was the same as the Interstates in Vermont, which was .
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I-59 (co-signed with I-20) approaching I-65 in downtown Birmingham I-59 and I-20 travel together for about 40 percent of their route through Alabama, passing northeast through Tuscaloosa before finally parting ways in eastern Birmingham. In Birmingham, many wrecks and accidents occur near the cross-over interchange of I-20/I-59 and I-65 (commonly called "Malfunction Junction"). On two occasions, 18-wheelers crashed and burned fiercely enough to melt the support beams of overpasses. Beginning in eastern Birmingham, I-59 continues on its own northeast, passing by Gadsden and Fort Payne in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, before entering Georgia.
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Truckers' convoys consisting of semi-trailer trucks and/or petrol tankers are more similar to a caravan than a military convoy. Truckers' convoys were created as a byproduct of the USA's national 55 mph speed limit and 18-wheelers becoming the prime targets of speed traps. Most truckers had difficult schedules to keep and as a result had to maintain a speed above the posted speed limit to reach their destinations on time. Convoys were started so that multiple trucks could run together at a high speed with the rationale being that if they passed a speed trap the police would only be able to pull over one of the trucks in the convoy.
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During the silver bonanza of the first decade of the 20th century, the need in the precious- metal fields for freight service led to construction of a network of local railroad lines across the Nevada desert to Tonopah. Examples include the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad, the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. Coal was hauled to the silver mines to power mine operations and also the stamp mills built in and around Tonopah to break apart the hard-rock ore for milling and refining. As the railroad lines were reduced with the decline of mining and restructuring of railroads in the late 20th century, 18-wheelers became the dominant method of moving freight.
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