Michigan trucker faces charges in deadly Indiana pileup
A truck driver has been charged in a deadly Sunday crash in Indiana that authorities say appears to have resulted from distracted driving. The wreck, which involved a semi and eight other vehicles, happened shortly after 11 a.m. on Interstate 65 northbound, near the Zionsville exit, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office. Mathew Lewis […]
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UPS identifies two drivers killed in Pennsylvania Turnpike crash
Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves UPS identified two of its drivers as among the five people killed in Sunday morning’s crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Daniel Kepner, 53, and Dennis Kehler, 48, were driving together in a tractor-trailer out of the company’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, operations center. “Our drivers will be missed and our […]
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Police probe deadly ‘chain reaction’ crash of trucks, bus on PA Turnpike
Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com The Pennsylvania Turnpike crash that killed five people and injured about 60 Sunday morning involved a tragic succession of events in which two tractor-trailers struck an overturned tour bus before a third crashed into the first two. “It was a kind of a chain reaction-type crash,” Pennsylvania State […]
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Five people die after trucks hit crashed tour bus on Pennsylvania Turnpike
Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com Sixty people injured in pileup after three tractor-trailers loaded with parcels crash into bus that had struck an embankment in Westmoreland County. At least five people died and 60 were injured on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Sunday morning after three tractor-trailers hit a tour bus that had […]
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Coalition warns against U.S. Postal Service privatization
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com An alliance of consumer advocates, postal workers and community groups is pushing back against efforts by the Trump administration to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) by eliminating the agency’s service requirements or by privatizing it. Calling itself the “Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal […]
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Class 8 truck orders tumble to decade low
Story by: Alan Adler @ FreightWaves.com Softer economy and 2018 buying frenzy dropped hammer on 2019 bookings. Orders of new Class 8 trucks tumbled to their lowest annual level in a decade in 2019 as a softening economy and a booking frenzy in 2018 combined to clobber orders. Year-over-year new truck orders fell again […]
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Drivers are safer but insurance costs continue to rise
Story by: Zach Strickland, FW Market Expert & Market Analyst @ FreightWaves.com Chart of the Week: Insurance Expense for Dry Van Carriers, Unsafe Driving Violations – USA SONAR:INSURE.VCFOO, VIOUSD.USA According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) — the branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) responsible for governing commercial truck operation […]
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Carriers advised to update drug-test practices after rule change
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @ FreightWaves.com In addition to preparing for a jump in costs for drug testing their drivers, carriers should also be ensuring that their drug-testing policies and procedures have been updated to reflect the doubling of random drug testing rates, according to compliance consultant J.J. Keller. The random drug-test increase […]
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Snowstorms to hit two corners of US this weekend (with forecast video)
Story by: Nick Austin, Director of Weather Analytics and Senior Meteorologist @ FreightWaves.com Rough weather will challenge truckers in opposite corners of the country this weekend. Two more rounds of heavy snowfall and strong winds will slam the Pacific Northwest, where freight markets have been quite volatile; and snow will also cover much of […]
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