Skateboards trucks - Jakarta cleans up after flood
Jakarta cleans up after flood
Reuters UK - JAKARTA (Reuters) - Garbage trucks were out in force on Jakarta's streets on Monday for a huge clean-up of the city after a devastating flood, while nearly 200,000 people were suffering from flood-related illnesses. The vast majority of the ill were
Detroit's Coupe de Grace
Wired News - GM and Ford, by contrast, which currently sell hybrid SUVs and trucks, have seen their reputations with consumers take a beating over short-sighted strategies, culminating in GM's portrayal in the movie Who Killed the Electric Car . In a survey by
Toxic tour: See the pollution on unusual L.A. excursion
Seattle Times - After leaving Huntington Park, the bus crosses the Alameda Corridor, a transitway used each day by 14,000 trucks and dozens of freight trains that service the giant Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex. Along the corridor is Wilmington, where Japheth
Traffic Blog with Julie Patterson
WISH-TV - Central Indiana is expecting to receive four to eight inches of snow beginning this afternoon. The Department of Public Works is prepared. 75 snow plow trucks are poised to plow and salt the city streets. Trash trucks also are retrofitted with snow
Study: Many trucks using city's streets doing jobs for Naples
Naples Daily News - A Naples city survey and crackdown on trucks rumbling along Central Avenue turned up many that weren't heading to destinations on that street. And a large percentage were city contractors. Of the 374 westbound truckers who were stopped and surveyed
City preps for latest winter storm
WTHR - About 75 city trucks will begin about 9:00 a.m. Monday laying that salt mixture to help with the ice. Additional contractors will be on standby to help plow the roads once the snow falls. The city also asks drivers to lend a hand. "We really encourage
February rumbles and rocks at Casper Events Center
Caspar Star-Tribune - Monster trucks, a singing Jesus, rock stars and a Cable Guy will bust February's typical pink-hearts and chocolate mold at the Casper Events Center. "We don't have any dull moments here," said Tiffine Canepa, marketing director for the center. Today
Gravel pits concern school
Idaho Press-Tribune - Cotner said the gravel pits in the area didn t substantially affect the school until a year ago when operations started on Dixie River Road near the school. Now, he said, up to 17 semi-trucks full of gravel pass by the school every hour. The trucks
