A truck driver has been released on bond after a DWI incident that nearly sent his rig off of an overpass in Texas on Saturday night. The incident occurred on July 15th in Wichita Falls, Texas at around 8:47 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the Lloyd Ruby Overpass across 15th Street. According to Texhomas News, ...more
A truck driver and social media personality followed by hundreds of thousands of people is reportedly being held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for screaming at another person in public. Houston resident Tierra Allen, 29, is better known online as “The Sassy Trucker.” She has more than 182,000 followers on TikTok and a large ...more
Another major pileup involving four semi trucks and several passenger vehicles occurred on I-70 in Illinois on Friday. Firefighters responded to a report of a multi-vehicle collision in an ongoing construction zone near Teutopolis, Illinois, at 1:37 p.m. on Friday, July 14.The collision occurred on eastbound I-70 at mile marker 101.5. The Teutopolis Fire Protection ...more
A nearby motorist captured footage of a passenger train colliding with a car hauler in Florida on Friday evening. The accident happened at 7 p.m. on July 14th in Lakeland, Florida near US 92 and Canal Avenue North.According to WFLA News, a truck hauling cars failed to clear a railroad crossing and got stuck on ...more
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week 2023 is now behind us, but the next inspection campaign is only a month away. This year, CVSA Brake Safety Week will take place throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico August 20 — 26.During Brake Safety Week, inspectors will be paying special attention to brake lining/pad ...more
A couple was awarded $44M for a wreck with a semi truck that left the woman with a spinal cord injury. The accident happened in 2016 at the intersection of the Indiana Toll Road and IN S.R. 49 near Valparaiso, Indiana. According to Fox 32, truck driver Pedrag Radisavljevic rear ended a car at the traffic ...more
Some dude in a box truck just does what he can in this impressive but concerning video. In the clip, a box truck is driving down the highway with a car stuffed into its trailer, towing another truck loaded with more cars. It’s an unconventional tow-job, to say the least. Check out the set-up below. JOIN OUR ...more
Police in Laredo, Texas, are investigating the death of a man found inside a burning semi truck at a truck stop early Sunday morning. Firefighters responded to a reported vehicle fire around 3 a.m. on Sunday, July 16, at a Pilot truck stop location in north Laredo, according to KGNS.When crews arrived on scene, they ...more
UPS says training won't have an impact on current operations. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via Bloomberg News) UPS Inc. plans to train nonunion employees to help deliver packages in the event of a labor disruption in the U.S., underscoring the potential for a strike as a crucial negotiating deadline nears. The continuity-training sessions in the coming ...more
A police officer directs traffic from a detour on I-95 after a section of a bridge collapsed in June in Philadelphia. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg News) There have been more than 5,000 crashes on Interstate 81 in the last five years, according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Pennsylvania accounts for 1,600 of those crashes, second to only ...more
