Trucking

Nearly one out of every 10 workers in the Kansas City area works in transportation and material moving jobs. The spiking cost of diesel is squeezing everyone from truck drivers to fleet owners to consumers.

Higher fuel costs touch every branch of the economy, but food distributors are especially vulnerable to price increases. A farmer and food bank leader discuss how more expensive gas is affecting their operations.

A Missouri Department of Revenue report shows Jackson County's 59 franchised dealers, just 9% of the state’s total number, accounted for 34.7% of new-vehicle sales in the state.

The annual truck rodeo outside Mulvane, Kansas, is an opportunity for friends and family members to celebrate truck drivers. In order to compete, truckers have to go at least a year without an accident.

The state has received more than $90 million in federal grant funding to improve Interstate 70 for all drivers, and especially for truck drivers.

Supporters of the bill cited a February incident in which a semi-truck driver went the wrong way on a Troy highway and could not pass an English proficiency test. Opponents say testing is subjective.

The semi crashed on March 1 on a stretch of highway near Jerome, Missouri, but the truck's load of tofu became increasingly more pungent as temperatures rose.

Local authorities say no one was hurt in the Phelps County crash, but the scene at the 172-mile marker is still there. One local resident said online that the rotting tofu left behind smells similar to catfish bait.

The once dominant road-trip stop now has about 60 franchise stores left, including one in rural Missouri that offers a vey different menu to the one Stuckey's is traditionally known for.

Supporters of the mandate say it will help to make roads safer, but some are worried about how it will impact immigrant drivers.

A new warning system may have forced a diet on Northeast Kansas City's most infamous bridge, but it hasn't stopped Thomas Gieseke's imagination from transforming the structure into a thing of whimsy and terror.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which was filed Sunday, comes just three years after Yellow received $700 million in pandemic-era loans from the federal government. Until recently, Yellow was headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.