The police responded to an emergency call at 9:12 a.m. from Haynes Trucking, a wood chip storage site at 13 Ridge Hill Rd.
The man, identified only as a tractor-trailer driver working for Haynes Trucking, became trapped in a large volume of wood chips. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The police said that the tractor-trailer […]

GRAND JUNCTION (KJCT) - A cement truck roll-over accident closed Northbound 1st AVE today at Ute causing traffic to tie-up for several hours. 
The driver 48-year-old Cole Black of Grand Junction, was treated at st. Mary’s hospital for a possible dislocated shoulder.
Witnesses say he was able to crawl out from the windshield with the help of paramedics.
Witnesses say Black […]

If you drive construction rigs, it’s time to practice up on your driving skills. Mack Trucks is sponsoring the Driving Skills Safety Challenge during the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas later this month. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from January 22-24 at the Orange Lot outside the Las […]

It’s that time of year again, the first significant snow fall has created havoc on Ontario roads and already the local new stations have begun complaining about snow and ice blowing off the roofs of trailers. It’s an age-old problem and one without a simple solution – at least not one that I’m aware of.
Due […]

Trucking is hazardous work. A number of drivers get into fatal accidents every year. Statistically, twenty-five in 100,000 drivers get killed annually. Given 3.3 million active drivers in the USA, about 825 of them die on the job each year. This makes trucking the 10th most dangerous job in the USA.
Unless you own or lease/purchase […]

A GARBAGE truck has veered across a major road and smashed into a house in Sydney’s south-west, causing significant structural damage, police say.
The garbage truck was headed south on the Camden Bypass about 10.30am (AEDT) today when the incident occurred.
Police said the male Driver veered across four lanes of traffic onto the incorrect side of […]

As our operators’ panel reveals, most people working in the industry think the conditions truck drivers have to endure are little short of shocking. Adam Purshall from TM Logistics says: “It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find somewhere safe to park. Motorway service areas are too busy unless you get there early enough - and drivers […]

A pickup truck driver who ran a stop sign led police on a 48-mile, high-speed desert chase before he was killed during a rolling Interstate 10 shootout near Chiriaco (Shih-RAY’-koh) Summit.
A Cathedral City police officer tried to stop the pickup Thursday, but the driver sped away, reaching speeds up to 120 mph as the California […]