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DeAnn Lopez CBS 7 News dlopez@cbs7.com March 7, 2012 MIDLAND-Cellphone usage may be legal by drivers in Class-C vehicles in the state of Texas, but this privilege does not apply to commercial truck drivers who are banned from usage while driving.

Nominations are now open for the second annual Overdrive's Most Beautiful contest, honoring the hard-working, adventurous women who make up less than 7 percent of the nation's 3 million truck drivers.

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The truck driver arrested on Wednesday for possession of drug paraphernalia previously crashed a fuel tank truck into a concrete pole.

A 60-year-old truck driver has been sentenced to 75 days in jail and two years of probation for the crash death of a 13-year-old boy.

If a recreational vehicle can be fitted with a slideout room, why can't a truck cab? That's the question Scott McKinnon asked himself, which resulted in RV supplier Lippert Components Inc.'s entry into the semi truck marketplace.

Police said a dump truck cut in front of Phillips' truck Wednesday afternoon on Southwest Tualatin-Sherwood Road at Nyberg Road just west of Interstate 5. It caused Phillips to lose his load of steel beams.

Reuters Container truck drivers at Canada's largest port have reached a new deal, narrowly avoiding an expanded job action that would have seen some 400 unionized drivers join about 1,200 non-unionized drivers who walked off the job last week.

Truck driver Chuck Ceccacci points out different features of the truck. The Ride of Pride truck visited Penn State University, March 6, 2014.

Thanks to movies during the seventies and eighties, the general public continues to see the professional truck driver as the loud-mouthed, chain-smoking, dirty scoundrel of the highways; bellowing down the road preying on the poor four-wheelers with nerves of steel and the mindset of nothing is going to get in their way.

"The rail line is so close to the road intersection that a tractor trailer stopping at the signal lights, in some cases, can have its trailer straddling the rail tracks," Arnott said in a press release.

Unionized container truck drivers who service the Port of Metro Vancouver will begin discussions with mediator Vince Ready this morning in an attempt to avert a noon strike notice.

UPS announced plans to purchase 1,000 propane package delivery trucks and install an initial 50 fueling stations at UPS locations.

For the period ending Jan. 31 the net loss totaled $248 million, or $3.05 per share, compared to a first quarter 2013 net loss of $123 million, or $1.53 per share.

"Help us - our mom is trying to kill us!" a young child screamed as a pregnant woman drove her minivan - with three young kids children inside - into the ocean in Florida, a trucker who waded into the frigid Atlantic waters to rescue them said Wednesday.

The International TerraStar 4x4 was named Work Truck magazine's 2014 Work Truck of the Year at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

The tractor-trailer driver who caused a serious accident on Route 309 in northern Bucks County last year has pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering another person and put on probation for two years.

A high-tech state program to check for faulty brakes on big rigs is gaining momentum in Washington with its specialized screening system.

A 46-year-old truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed a tollway worker and critically injured a state trooper on I-88 in January has entered not guilty pleas to several felony charges, according to the Daily Herald.

Oregon State Police identified the names of the two men killed in Sunday's crash on Interstate 84 east of Pendleton.