Trucker News

A federal judge has sentenced a former Wyoming state trooper to serve 15 years in prison for kidnapping a truck driver in what prosecutors say was an aborted murder plot.

Earlier this year, a Wyoming State trooper was arrested. Agents with the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Wyoming Department of Criminal Justice arrested Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Franklin Joseph Ryle Jr.

A Rosemount fertilizer plant remained shut down Wednesday while investigators probed an industrial accident that killed an Oklahoma truck driver and critically injured another as they loaded anhydrous ammonia on Monday.

A Winnipeg long-haul truck driver was killed on a Nebraska highway on Thursday after his semi-trailer broad-sided a propane truck, police said.

Under the big fluorescent lights, the two truck drivers who had pulled into Rosemount from Oklahoma seemed to be having trouble with a connection in the piping that one would use to pump the anhydrous ammonia into his semitrailer truck.

CONTINENTAL VILLAGE - State police are seeking witnesses to a fiery crash on Route 9 that took the life of a Canadian trucker Monday afternoon.

Federal investigators will try to determine what caused an anhydrous ammonia leak that killed a truck driver and injured three other people in Rosemount.

Some truck drivers who haul goods into and out of the Port of Oakland may soon find it too expensive to work in the port.

By CCJ Staff Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks announced Monday, Nov. 16, that their diesel engines have been certified by both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board to meet the near-zero emissions standards that take effect in January 2010.

One truck driver was killed and another was critically hurt when anhydrous ammonia was released Monday night in Rosemount.

CONTINENTAL VILLAGE - A truck driver was killed on Route 9 near the Westchester-Putnam county line this afternoon after a woman driving a sedan crossed into his lane of traffic, forcing him off the road, police said.

A University of North Dakota student is learning on the road. Julie Hjelle of Lankin is getting her online degree while working as a truck driver.

By CCJ Staff ArvinMeritor Inc. announced that the board of directors has elected Carsten Reinhardt to the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer.

An 18-wheeler on Alabama 67 on Friday. Alabama had 131 deaths from 27 fatal wrecks involving tractor-trailer rigs in 2008 BUY THIS PHOTO In two separate instances within a couple of days of each other earlier this month, local police officers dealt with truck drivers who allegedly lied about being kidnapped and robbed.

A grand jury has indicted a former truck driver who is imprisoned in Virginia with first-degree murder in connection with the 2001 death of an Anthony woman.

A jury on Thursday awarded $5.1 million to a Palm Coast man who was severely injured and whose wife was killed when a sod truck ran a stop sign at Cody's Corner and collided with the couple's van.

A judge Friday cut bail nearly in half for a truck driver indicted in connection with a multi-vehicle wreck on Angeles Crest Highway that killed a 12-year-old Palmdale girl and her father.

Westport Innovations, a Canadian-based supplier of alternative fuel and low-emissions transportation technologies, posted a $9 million net loss for the fiscal second quarter 2010, which the company attributes to investment gains and lower sales volumes in Cummins Westport.

The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire today along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said.

Driving the accident prone S-curve on the Bay Bridge gives a shot of adrenaline to Nancy Frank, of Oakland, since the bypass opened just after Labor Day weekend.