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"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...
This recent motorcycle accident in Texas, in which the rider suffered fatal injuries after getting struck by a pickup truck towing a horse trailer, exemplifies the danger of motorcycle riding. Of that danger, the victim's brother-in-law, Jose Lopez, said, "We know the...
Now this comes after the Texas legislature voted to pass what would have been the state's first law against texting while driving, 124 to 16, as Pamela Kripke reports for the Huffington Post. But Texas Gov. Rick Perry - who many consider to be a possible GOP...
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...
Abel Villalobos, who 10 years ago was involved in a car crash and was left paralyzed, has learned to make music again after doctors initially gave him a weak prognosis. Villalobos's career was quite promising; a "respected musician," as Ramon Renteria reports for the...
Operation Road Check went into effect on June 7 and lasted for 72 hours. It would be nice to see something like Operation Road Check more often; officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety went in search of big rigs that were in violation of commercial...
A police officer ran a stop sign while typing on his in-dash computer keyboard, hitting motorcyclist Louis Olivier, now 75 years old, leading to roughly half a million in medical bills, as PoliceOne reports. Olivier has had four skin grafts since the motorcycle...
