Trucks

Autumn is a grand time to be a gearhead. By fall, most of next year’s vehicles are in dealerships and we can finally compare and contrast them for ourselves. No more idle speculation about how much oomph the new Audi will have. No more flame wars...

Ten years ago, a big pickup sporting fancy red leather seats would have shocked the boys down at the feed store. And they flatly would not have believed that any truck could "kneel" to allow its driver to enter more easily. But both features can be...

On Tuesday, October 9th, during National Pizza Month, the iconic Italian eatery, Sbarro is introducing an entirely new pizza recipe that takes the company back to its Italian roots. Angelenos are invited to get a “first taste” of the new...

The Eat The Streets: 757 Food Truck Series hits Hampton on Oct. 8. This wil be the third gathering, and the first on the Peninsula, of a group of four food vendors whose trucks serve downtown workers and at other locations. Their latest “Eat the...

The manufacturing sector received positive economic news this week. Demand for full-size pickups jumped 16 percent in August, helping to make it the strongest sales month since August 2009. Overall auto sales increased 20 percent from a year earlier to...

With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon this summer, everyone who drives can appreciate the beauty of vehicles designed to go twice as far on a tank of fuel than today's models — including the people who build cars. Some ideas simply make too...

The Obama administration finalized new fuel economy rules Tuesday that within 12 years will almost double today's standard for cars and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon. The rules, which have been in the works for several years, will add thousands...

Coed blues-rock champions Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi will be heating up guitar fretboards in Norfolk this fall. The Tedeschi Trucks Band will play Chrysler Hall in Norfolk and tickets to the show go on sale 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27. The show will...

The state may overhaul the system that protects us from getting ripped off at the gas station, grocery store and even the parking meter. Some lawmakers want to do less-frequent inspections to make sure fuel pumps, home heating oil trucks and parking...

Want to do your part to fight climate change?  Buy (and drive) a battery-powered car, suggests Environment Maryland.  The green group says the state could begin to whittle away at the massive amounts of climate-altering pollution produced here if more...

A Chicago alderman worries that fights could break out downtown between drivers of mobile food trucks over spaces, unless the city changes its ordinance.  Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, co-sponsored an ordinance that would allow mobile food trucks, with...

After a four-hour hearing filled with heated questions and tearful testimony, an expanded mobile food ordinance two years in the making was approved Thursday by the Chicago City Council's License and Consumer Protection Committee. And while some...