I’ve been a trucker for nearly 5 decades. AI made the job safer, but autonomous trucks still need to prove themselves.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ingrid Brown, a professional truck driver and operations manager at Blackjack Express LLC. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I first started truck driving, I only had a CB radio.There was no telephone, no communications, and no technology for anybody to know where I parked at night.Especially as a woman, I thought about things like whether I was parked in a safe place. If…

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Bassett’s Ice Cream celebrates 165 years as a Philadelphia institution

Bassett’s Ice Cream has survived economic downturns, changing consumer tastes and generations of competition while remaining under family ownership since its founding in 1861. Now led by its sixth generation, the Philadelphia institution is marking another milestone as America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary. FOX Business correspondent Jeff Flock…

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10 things that are older than the United States of America

Happy birthday, America!This July Fourth, the USA is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the day when the US formally broke away from England in 1776.A lot has happened in the last two centuries: inventions, wars, pandemics, space travel, to name a few. But…

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