Truck Driver Barred From Road After Fatal Crash
Federal regulators declared a North Carolina-licensed commercial truck driver to be “an imminent hazard to public safety” and barred him from operating any commercial vehicles after he allegedly caused...
View ArticleLawsuit Blames Tractor-Trailer For Deadly Chicago Crash
The wife of a tractor-trailer driver who was killed last year when he crashed into the back of another tractor-trailer that pulled onto the shoulder of I-55 in Chicago is suing the driver of that truck...
View ArticleTow Truck Driver’s Leg Amputated after Tractor-Trailer Hit and Run
Indiana law enforcement is on the hunt for the driver of a tractor-trailer that struck and severely injured a tow truck driver on an Indianapolis interstate Friday before driving off. According to WISH...
View ArticleTractor-Trailer Crash Throws Three People off New Orleans Bridge
Three people were hurled off a New Orleans Bridge into Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans when a tractor-trailer collided with a tow truck and an SUV Sunday night, Sept. 17. The Louisiana State Police...
View ArticleEnthusiastic Bipartisan Support for Self-Driving Trucks at Senate Hearing
Support for self-driving technology in tractor-trailers and other heavy commercial trucks is gaining steam in the upper echelons of the U.S. government. On Sept. 13, the Senate Committee on Commerce,...
View ArticleFMCSA: Georgia Trucking Firm Had Deadly Disregard For Safety
Federal transportation authorities shuttered a Georgia-based commercial trucking firm after a deadly crash triggered an investigation that turned up scores of serious safety violations. According to...
View ArticleFMCSA: Tennessee Truck Driver A Deadly Threat To Other Motorists
Federal authorities have declared a Tennessee commercial truck driver to be an imminent hazard to public safety and ordered him to stop operating any commercial motor vehicle after he caused a deadly...
View ArticleCommercial Drivers Using Seatbelts At Record-High Rates
Seatbelt usage among commercial truck and bus drivers is at an all-time high, according to a recent survey of nearly 40,000 drivers of tractor trailers, motor coaches, and other commercial vehicles....
View ArticleTractor-Trailer Side Underride Crash Kills Nevada Girl
A side underride crash involving a tractor-trailer and a van full of children left a 3-year-old girl dead and three others injured in Nevada Saturday, Nov. 18. The driver of the tractor-trailer is...
View ArticleTennessee Official Sues Tractor-Trailer Co. and Driver Over Crash
A former Tennessee state representative is suing an Illinois trucking firm and others for injuries he suffered when a tractor-trailer crashed into his vehicle on I-81 in Kingsport, Tennessee last...
View ArticleFMCSA bars Washington trucking firm and driver from operating
Federal authorities have ordered a Washington-based trucking company and one of its drivers to immediately cease all in-state and intrastate operations after finding them to pose an imminent threat to...
View ArticleTractor-Trailer Hits Two Greyhound Buses, Injuring 8
A tractor-trailer collided with two Greyhound buses on a Kentucky highway Thursday, Jan. 4, injuring 8 people. Police in Walton, Kentucky, said that a Greyhound bus carrying 41 passengers had pulled...
View ArticleBad Driver Causes Tractor-Trailer To Plummet Off Texas Overpass
A tractor-trailer that was struck by a careless driver plummeted off a highway overpass in Sugar Land, Texas, and landed on top of a Toyota sedan Jan. 11. A spokesman for the Sugar Land Police...
View ArticleTractor-Trailers, Greyhound Crash on Kentucky Highway, Injuring 21
Nearly two dozen people were injured in a highway pileup in Kentucky Tuesday, Jan. 16, involving multiple vehicles, including two tractor-trailers and a Greyhound bus. Bowling Green, Kentucky’s WBKO...
View ArticleFMCSA-Banned Truck Driver Gets 3 Years For Deadly Crash
A Minnesota commercial truck driver with a history of sleep apnea crashes and violations has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty in December to a felony charge of criminal...
View ArticleSen. Schumer Calls For Tractor-Trailer Underride Guard Improvements
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer joined the family of a New York man who died in an underride collision with a tractor-trailer Jan. 2 in pushing for new safety standards for commercial...
View ArticleTractor-Trailer Group Seeks Further Changes to Anti-Fatigue Rules
Is it possible to settle hours-of-service (HOS) regulations for tractor-trailer drivers to everyone’s satisfaction? Nearly a year after federal regulators overturned parts of hours-of-service reforms...
View ArticleFeds Deem Kentucky Tractor-Trailer Driver ‘Imminent Threat’
Federal authorities have barred a Kentucky tractor-trailer driver from operating any kind of commercial vehicle outside of Kentucky after uncovering a multitude of serious violations that jeopardized...
View ArticleGA Commercial Trucking Co Shuttered for ‘complete and utter lack of...
Federal authorities ordered a Georgia commercial trucking company to cease all in-state and out-of-state activities after discovering the company was a reincarnation of a trucking firm that had been...
View ArticleRogue Trucking Company Transported Explosives Without Qualifications, Compliance
Federal authorities have shut down a Tennessee trucking company after an unannounced roadside inspection found a truck haphazardly packed with unsecured explosives and multiple other violations that...
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