New York News Updates

Participating state police agencies were from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The IRS announced Oct. 14 that no penalties would be imposed on dyed diesel sold and used to drive on highways nationwide from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31.

The arrests follow measures Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed earlier this year to target organized staged-accident rings.

Ryder opened used commercial vehicle sales facilities in Newark and North Bergen, N.J., expanding customer access to its inventory in the New York-area freight market.

Truck driver Joe Macken’s model is on display at the Museum of the City of New York through Oct. 12.

The initiatives being launched will support electric truck purchases and the charging systems needed to keep them operating at the East Coast’s busiest seaport.

A Senate bill would make staged crashes into commercial motor vehicles a federal crime as New York trains investigators to prosecute these insurance fraud schemes.

“We collided with a drone back there in the turn,” the pilot told an air traffic controller. “It hit us right above the cockpit.”

Two truckers were left bound in a trailer during an armed hijacking of Apple products in Long Island, with three undocumented men facing federal charges.

“NHTSA does not issue traffic tickets and will never text, call or email any member of the public regarding any traffic violation,” the agency said May 19.