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Apparently, 45 barrels of hot oil, the Eagle Ford shale, and trucks are a bad combination. When the driver brought his truck into the well, the hot oil on his truck caught fire, exploded, and injured both the driver and another worker. Investigators are looking into...
For more than a year, the trucking industry has been anticipating the launch of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA). The goal of this new national safety initiative for commercial motor vehicles is to...
As the Houston Chronicle reports, truck driver Kenneth Laymon, 45, went across the center median and hit a van full of 10 people, on their way to a wedding, killing all of them. Laymon also died as a result of the big rig crash. The cause? Laymon had just made a phone...
Before the pilot program being pushed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can become a reality - the one that would allow big rigs from Mexico to operate on U.S. roadways - the Department of Transportation wants the FMCSA to do more work. This work...
Allstate America's Best Drivers Report for 2011 shows that San Antonio, Texas, ranks 142 (out of 200 larger cities) for the number of car wrecks per driver on average. San Antonio drivers get into one car accident, on average, around every eight years. The national...
Onyango Obama is President Obama's uncle. Onyango was arrested for drunk driving in August after he was caught swerving and almost hit a police officer's squad car, nearly causing a DWI accident. As can be expected, due to the upcoming presidential election, one side...
It's not often that motorcyclists survive when hit by trucks. According to Luis Arevalo, the president of the International Association of Firefighters, the motorcyclist was hit when a speeding truck driver cut across multiple lanes of traffic, completely failing to...
New law ups the ante starting this week for drunk truck drivers and other drivers who cause auto accidents and serious injuries. As Kelley Shannon reports for the San Antonio Express-News, the Texas legislature passed law that adds another 10 years to the possible...
San Antonio Police Detective Charles Campa said, "You've just got to pay attention - that's what it boils down to," as Jessica Kwong reports for the San Antonio Express-News. But Campa also said, "I think it was just a combination of bad lighting and the vehicle being...
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...
