Clueless College Graduate Parks Mother’s $327,000 Maserati in the Middle of the Street

People have been doing some pretty strange, inexplicable things with automobiles for more than a century now.  But according to a short news story out of China, a 22-year-old college graduate may merit special attention for her atrocious parking. A tricky move for some, there’s certainly no shortage of bad parallel parking stories. Some drivers […]

Appeals Court Upholds GM Pension Cuts

100 retired GM executives must make do with much smaller pensions after judges in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati sided with the automaker.  At the heart of the suit was a dispute over the way pensions were being calculated as part of the bankruptcy and restructuring deal the Obama administration made with […]

Toyota Motor Corp. Emerges Unscathed from Prius Brake-Defect Litigation Case

After nearly four years of litigation, a class action case against Toyota Motor Corp. was dismissed after a California federal judge determined that the plaintiff failed to present the proper evince. The suit alleged that certain Prius hybrid cars have defective braking systems. But because attorneys for the consumer plaintiff did not demonstrate that there […]

Basic Safety Driving Rules for Professional Truck Drivers

There’s a reason some drivers get nervous when sharing the road with large trucks. Not only are they a lot bigger and heavier than the average passenger vehicle, trucks are also less responsive and take much longer to come to a complete stop. But what the average driver many not know about these massive vehicles […]