Briefly: Snow storm continues to trigger driving difficulties in SD
Regardless of the technical arrival of spring, winter-like climate continues to bedevil truckers in South Dakota.
A late-season snowstorm made journey on Interstate 29 and different highways hazardous.
The South Dakota Freeway Patrol posted on social media that a tractor-trailer slid off of I-29 on the New Effington exit “as a result of incapability to see the street.”
New Effingham is situated within the northeast nook of the state about 187 miles north of Sioux Falls and near the North Dakota and Minnesota borders.
SDHP reported there have been quite a few vans and vehicles caught on I-29 between Summit and the North Dakota border
FedEx Freight to face alone as firm consolidates
FedEx Corp. introduced Wednesday it’s going to consolidate its working corporations into one group, creating efficiencies that may improve the corporate’s skill to fulfill the evolving wants of shoppers and in the end construct a stronger, extra worthwhile enterprise.
This transition, with full implementation anticipated in June 2024, will in the end carry FedEx Categorical, FedEx Floor, FedEx Companies, and different FedEx working corporations into Federal Categorical Company, turning into a single firm working a unified, absolutely built-in air-ground community below the revered FedEx model.
FedEx Freight will proceed to offer less-than-truckload freight transportation providers as a stand-alone firm below Federal Categorical Company. Raj Subramaniam will function president and CEO of the mixed group.
FedEx stated the brand new construction will assist facilitate the corporate’s efforts to enhance the effectivity with which FedEx picks up, transports, and delivers packages within the U.S. and Canada. As well as, the unified group will carry a definite concentrate on the air community and worldwide quantity, in addition to a extra holistic strategy to operations on the bottom using each FedEx staff and contracted service suppliers, in accordance with an announcement from FedEx.
Semi burns at Ohio truck cease
Fireplace destroyed this truck at a Petro Truck Cease in Ohio Tuesday.Weathersfield Fireplace Division
Firefighters from the Weathersfield Fireplace Division had been referred to as at about 3 a.m. to the Petro Truck Cease on Salt Springs Highway. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered the semi absolutely concerned.
No accidents had been reported.
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