A middle school student took heroic action to bring a school bus to a halt when the bus driver lost consciousness at the wheel. The incident occurred April 26, 2023, in Warren, Michigan.After the school bus driver suffered a medical emergency while the vehicle was in motion, seventh grade student Dillon Reeves noticed that something ...more
A dust storm and a major multi-vehicle crash with injuries forced officials to shut down I-55 south of Springfield, Illinois, on Monday. Illinois State Police (ISP) say that I-55 is closed in both directions from mile marker 52 – 80.Dust storm in Central Illinois between Divernon and Farmersville. Both lanes of I-55 shut down. @NWSStLouis ...more
Wild dash cam video captures the moment that a semi truck strikes a low-hanging cable in North Carolina. The incident occurred on April 27 north of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.In dash cam video captured at the scene, you can see a semi truck in the right lane strike a cable, which tangles in the driver’s ...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has issued a Final Rule that will allow companies the option of using “oral fluid,” or saliva, instead of urine when testing for drugs. In a Notice to be published in the Federal Register on May 2, 2023, the U.S. DOT announced it will amend current federal regulations to ...more
Michigan State Police (MSP) arrested a truck driver for allegedly opening fire on a motorist following a crash in Detroit. MSP received calls about a crash involving “a possible intoxicated semi driver and a weapon” just before midnight on April 30.The early investigation indicates that a crash involving a semi truck and a passenger vehicle ...more
Authorities say that a box truck driver was killed in a crash involving a semi truck during the Thursday evening rush hour in South Carolina. The crash occurred around 4:40 p.m. on April 27 on I-85 near Blacksburg, South Carolina.Box truck driver Timothy Antonio McNeil, 25, was southbound on I-85 at mile marker 106 when ...more
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced that they’ll be reopening I-65 through the North Split interchange in downtown Indianapolis this weekend. As part of the reopening process, crews will work in stages over the weekend on the northbound and then the southbound lanes in order to fully reopen I-65 as of May 1, 2023, weather ...more
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved sweeping changes today that will force trucking fleets to transition to from diesel-powered trucks to electric vehicles. On April 28, CARB approved the “Advanced Clean Fleets” rule, which will ban the sale of medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks in California by 2036. The rule also requires that all ...more
A truck driver is facing the possibility of life in prison after he was allegedly discovered transporting a large amount of cocaine during a traffic stop, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. California-based truck driver Ronald Coleman, 43, was arrested on a charge of possession with intent to distribute ...more
This week, a Louisiana man pleaded guilty to a charges related to secretly recording people using the restroom at a truck stop last year. According to a report in NOLA, Seth G. Breaux, 29, pleaded guilty on April 26 to one charge of video voyeurism and two charges of indecent behavior with a juvenile.Prosecutors dropped ...more
