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As Oliver B. Patton reports for Heavy Duty Trucking, sleep apnea can lead to drowsy driving, which is one common cause of truck accidents, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) says that truck drivers with a body mass index of 35 or higher should...
If you're a truck driver in need of work, your prospects are good. But if you're the average motorist in Texas, you have likely noticed the heavy tanker truck traffic as a result of the oil boom. Much of this traffic has contributed to motor vehicle accidents...
Two people were killed in an accident on Highway 85 and FM 1582 on Tuesday earlier this week. The accident involved three 18-wheelers, according to WOAI News, and took place outside Dilley, Texas, in Frio County. Frio County is one of many Texas counties that are part...
As Vicki Vaughn reports for the Houston Chronicle, Eagle Ford roads are in rough shape because of the oil boom. DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler says that it could be $70 million over the course of the oil boom just to repair and maintain his county's roads alone, not...
Locomotor therapy is giving new hope to people with catastrophic spinal cord injuries sustained in incidents involving everything from cross-country skiing to truck accidents. It used to be that the more paralyzed you were - not able to pull yourself up on parallel...
"The Eagle Ford is the top basin we have in the world today," says Marathon Oil's David Roberts, as Edward Klump reports for Bloomberg. All this Eagle Ford Shale hype - and it's not really hype - means continued focus on intensive hydrofracking here in Texas, which...
Texas fairs relatively poorly, all things considered, in terms of the cost of auto insurance. As Jerry Edgerton reports for CBS News, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Michigan are the top three states where car insurance is the most expensive. Texas is number 12 at $1,661 per...
As Mark Collette reports for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom is an economic "shot in the arm" for Texas, but the deteriorating roads are an unfortunate side effect. If you're a driver on any highway or county or farm roads near the Eagle...
On one hand, you've got an old-fashioned oil boom that's bringing with it plenty of prosperity to local communities on or near the Eagle Ford Shale. One man, for instance, is bringing in roughly $10,000 per month charging 17 men $150 each in rent per week. On the...
Last month saw another truck accident related to the oil and gas boom happening right now in South Texas. A massive increase in tanker truck traffic has come along with this oil and gas boom, where truck drivers haul supplies to - and haul fossil fuels away from - the...
