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Looking at the picture, you have to wonder what happened. As Kathryn Kattalia reports for the New York Daily News, the trailer on a big rig came to rest at almost 90 degrees after the trailer was lifted up by the big rig's hydraulics, causing traffic on the Houston...
There is absolutely no reference to drunk driving in Hollie O'Connor's report for the San Antonio Express-News, but the dozen or so online readers' comments on the story make good guesses as to what caused an accident involving a pickup truck and a big rig in Texas...
There's a man who drives a tow truck and, as fate would have it, this man seems to be the brunt of extreme irony. He drives a tow truck, yet he seems to be the one most in need of his own services. He's been involved in 28 accidents since 2000, as Megan Luther reports...
The Business of Mining for Natural Gas According to some reports, the United States is now the world's largest producer of natural gas - and natural gas is a resource that former oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens from Amarillo, Texas, has been pushing for years. Pickens is...
In one of the latest big rig crashes to occur on Texas highways, a load of McDonald's Styrofoam cups were the only casualty, as Jennifer Bell reports for the Kingwood Observer. The two truck drivers did not appear to be seriously injured. But the facts of the dual...
"You talk about fun, man," Jeffrey Ball quotes truck driver Gary Vann, reporting for the Wall Street Journal. Vann refers to the late 1990s, when gas was cheap and Vann could "hurtle down empty stretches of highway at 100 miles per hour," Ball writes. In our opinion,...
This is a related follow up to last week's blog post, in which we briefly discussed Reuter's report that big rigs from Mexico may soon be allowed to operate on U.S. roadways, but that Mexican big rigs will have to comply with rules regarding electronic monitoring in...
"You're going to get fired, and it's going to be hard to find another job," says American Trucking Association economist Bob Costello, as reported by Walker Moskop for San Antonio Express-News. Costello is referring to tighter regulations imposed on truck drivers in...
Under NAFTA, Mexican big rigs are supposed to be allowed entry into the U.S., but Congressional representatives have "thrown up repeated roadblocks," as Jason Lange and Adriana Barrera report for Reuters. Presumably, among opponents' reasons to keep Mexican big rigs...
19-year-old Haifa Abubaker was crossing the street with her bicycle when the driver of a cement truck, who apparently did not see her, ran her over. He also did not realize that he had hit her in the first place, because he dragged Abubaker roughly 40 feet, as Shelton...
