U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater announced a new hotline for commercial vehicle drivers to report actual or potential violations of federal motor carrier safety violations. The toll-free line, (888) DOT-SAFT, (368-7238) will put drivers in contact
September 8 — An owner-operator who slammed into a school bus in Colorado last week fell asleep at the wheel, according to a preliminary investigation. Ricky Martinez was driving his grain truck through Holyoke, CO, on his
DUBLIN, VA (Aug. 18, 1998) - Three million miles. It’s a distance equal to 120 trips around the Earth’s equator, or 536 round trips from Los Angeles to New York. It takes the average trucker about
AUGUST 19 - A planned truck stop is expected to make a deadly stretch of South Carolina highway even more dangerous, while the roadway continues to be passed over for improvement, according to a report in
HDT editors hit the road to report what truckers really face since the lifting of the national speed limit. All tried to run the posted speed...or lower. Here are their personal accounts from across the country.
When commercial vehicle drivers are instructed to pull into a weigh station, what should they expect? These photos take you inside a Georgia weigh station. Learn how weight inspectors and officers work together to make trucking safer.
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