The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating the death of a truck driver at an ammunition plant in Madison County, Illinois, on Thursday. The incident occurred late Thursday afternoon at the Olin/Winchester ammunition facility located in East Alton, Illinois.Authorities say that Oscar “Zeke” Bettorf, 60, was driving a semi truck loaded ...more
Police are searching for a truck driver that fled the scene after striking two pedestrians on the side of an Illinois highway. The accident happened on Friday morning, June 23rd at around 3:23 a.m. in Bolingbrook, illinois. According to Fox 32, 28-year-old Perla Andrade-Garcia and another person pulled over onto the shoulder of Interstate 55 northbound ...more
The U.S. Coast Guard believes that they have located a truck driver who crashed off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon, according to a report. Around 2 p.m on June 22, officials say that a truck traveling north on the CBBT crashed off the bridge and into the bay ...more
A collapsed portion of Interstate 95 reopened at noon on Friday. Workers put the finishing touches on the temporary six-lane roadway this morning, and the temporarily repaired roadway was reopened to traffic at 12 p.m. EST. The reopening comes after the recruitment of a NASCAR racetrack jet dryer to ensure the pavement dried despite rainy ...more
Residents of a Chicago neighborhood say that semi truck traffic on their streets is causing serious health issues and are working to have the trucks redirected. Baltazar Enriquez and Liliana Medina are a part of the Little Village Community Council, and started knocking on doors looking for signatures on Thursday, June 22nd. The pair was ...more
Motorists captured and shared dramatic video of an RV swerving all over the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt in British Columbia last week. The video was shared on June 15 by Facebook user Amanda-Rae Bystedt.In the video, you can hear two women in a passenger vehicle express growing surprise and concern as they watch ...more
A truck driver appears to intentionally ram into the side of a day cab in this dash cam video. In the clip, a truck driver in the far right lane of Highway 401 in Ontario suddenly drives into the side of a day cab driver passing him on the left. The day cab is then ...more
Duane Long at the headquarters of Longistics in Raleigh in 2014. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics) Duane Long, former president and chairman of Raleigh, N.C.-based logistics provider Longistics Transportation Inc., died June 12 after a long battle with lung disease. He was 70. He was elected the 70th chairman of American Trucking Associations in ...more
Parts costs rose more than 8% and labor 10%, respectively, in the first quarter of 2023 compared with the same period a year earlier. (Penske) Maintenance parts and labor expenses for trucking companies across North America rose more than 8% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2023 and are unlikely to return to previous levels, ...more
This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4. (Gene J. Puskar/AP/File) ATLANTA — Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene, because ...more
