Trucker News Archives

Truck drivers from across the country gathered in Washington on Monday looking for help with rising fuel costs. via ClipSyndicate

Only a dozen trucks showed up in Pierre today for a rally in which truck drivers sought to draw attention to the economic problems being caused by high fuel prices.

A truck driver has been cited for negligent driving after his truck slammed into a Chicago Transit Authority train station. via KRDO

A group of truck drivers is planning to caravan past the White House and the Capitol before a rally to protest high gas prices. via WRC Washington DC Channel 4

“I categorically say that about one rake a day is being provided if it is all provided by the railway here as the requirement is about five rakes a day”

Amritsar April 27,: The Pakistan Government's laxity has kept around two hundred fifty truckloads of red chillies, for which orders were placed by that country's importers, lying at Amritsar for over 24 days. via Daily India

“She went out of her way to speak to everyone.”

Skid marks, a boarded-up entrance and police tape reminded commuters Saturday of the destruction left by a tractor-trailer that smashed into a crowded train station and killed two pedestrians, as authorities reviewed surveillance footage of the crash.

"It definitely makes you cautious," said Tykeysha Vaughn, 22, as she exited the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station, the site of Friday's accident during the evening rush hour.

Meanwhile, the mayor disputed claims by some neighborhood residents that the intersection where the accident occurred, near an expressway exit, was dangerous, with quickly changing stoplights. Read more

“I keep it down to at least 65”

Mike Westmoreland of Fort Wayne, at the Fort Wayne Truck Plaza on Tuesday, said he is among many drivers cutting back his speed to conserve fuel. via Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

“Over the past few days, air force planes flew over 5,000 square kilometers (1,900 square miles) of land and sea and found no trace of the priest”

Roman Catholic priest Adelir Antonio de Carli, center right, talks with a journalist before floating off using party balloons in Paranagua, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, Sunday, April 20, 2008. via HendersonvilleNews.com

“It's a significant increase in a short period of time”

Charles Scott doesn't know how some of his fellow independent truckers can afford to stay in business. via MyFox St. Louis

“Unfortunately he falls into the typical pedophile profile”

An Antioch man arrested April 14 for allegedly molesting at least three girls over a 12-year period was a long-haul truck driver and police fear there could be more victims in other states, police Sgt. via FOXReno

Features Services Online Opinion is your chance to tell Keloland what you think. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

“There's clearly some geopolitical tension in the market”

Rising gasoline prices tightened the squeeze on drivers Monday, jumping for the first time to an average $3.50 a gallon at filling stations across the country with no sign of relief.

Crude oil set a record for the sixth day in a row _ this time closing above $117 a barrel _ after an attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Middle East rattled investors.

'It's killing us,' said Jean Beuns, a New York cab driver who estimated he now makes $125 to $150 less per month than in the fall because of costlier gas. 'And it was so quick. Every day you see the price go up 5, 6, 10 cents more.' Read more

Bobby Locke pulled off Interstate 84 at Exit 5, got out of his rig and pointed to worn treads on the tires.

An East County man was fatally injured in front of his 2 1/2-year-old daughter today when a big rig crashed into his back yard and struck him as he was cleaning his swimming pool, authorities reported. via KFMB-TV San Diego

“With crude prices at record highs, gasoline prices at highs, you're paying for that in your food costs as well. You've got to get it from the farm to the store, all of that adds to the surge in prices.”

Milk and bread prices, for example, have risen 25 percent and 16 percent, respectively, compared with a year earlier, according to the report. via Dairy Field

The Pierre City Commission has approved the route for a convoy of truckers who are upset by high fuel prices. via Argus Leader

At least 50 Maine truckers plan to be in Washington, D.C., later this month as part of a national rally to protest record-high diesel fuel prices. via Sun-Journal

“Highway 400 widening through Barrie and Innisfil is not currently on the five-year Southern Ontario Highways Program”

Ontario's project to widen a stretch of Hwy. 400 through Barrie has hit a roadblock. via Today's Trucking

A truck driver is assessing the damage to his semitrailer trailer after slowing down to avoid a moose only to strike another one on the other side of the Upper Peninsula road. via WSJV-TV South Bend

“It's a little bit more than I expected”

Posted by The Associated Press April 15, 2008 06:53AM Categories: Breaking News Since infrared cameras went up, Oregon highway workers at Ashland have nailed about a trucker a day cheating on the requirement to ... via The Oregonian

“DNA analysis of that shows it's not just the blood of one victim, but the blood of several victims.”

A cab of a truck driver and suspected serial killer was "awash with blood" belonging to 10 different people, said a prosecutor who charged the man Thursday with murdering a missing woman. via News Max

All eastbound lanes of Hwy. 401 at have been closed at Winston Churchill after a multi-vehicle accident this morning.

Infrared cameras at Ashland's Port of Entry on Interstate 5 are the Oregon Department of Transportation's latest strategy to catch truck drivers bypassing required weigh station stops.

Canada's richness in resources allowed our economy to hurdle over a slumping U.S. market and other obstacles to steady growth in 2007, according to Stats Canada's latest study in the Canadian Economic Observer.

American medical experts have recommended to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that obese truck drivers be tested routinely for sleep apnea.

By Andy Duncan

Truck-stop electrification pioneer IdleAire has reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its 2007 annual report, which will be filed late, will show losses that “raise substantial doubt as to the Registrant’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

While IdleAire is working with investment bank KPMG Corporate Finance and crisis-management experts Getzler Henrich & Associates to finance the company for the next 12 months, “there is no assurance that such plan can be executed on acceptable terms, if at all,” the company reported in its March 31 notice of late filing.

IdleAire, which has yet to turn a profit, expects to report a 2007 net loss of $93 million on revenues of $37 million, compared to a 2006 net loss of $60 million on revenues of $14 million, the company reported.

Shows a video where Dan Little one of the organizers was on CNBC. Then after hanging up, Jim Kramer and another analyst talk about what's really going on. Explains how one of the other organizers isn't even a truck driver and while he's telling everyone to shut down, he has a 9-5 job to go to.

“It's to the point of break, or else trucks going to loose everything go back to the banks like the housing market. We don't want that”

Posted Friday, April 4, 2008 ; 05:00 PM Updated Friday, April 4, 2008 ; 05:21 PM Click here to see pictures from the rally Story by Gil McClanahan Email Other Stories by Gil McClanahan CHARLESTON -- The high ... via WVNS-TV

By Steve Lyttle The Charlotte Observer Updated 04/04/08 - 8:24 AM About a half-dozen truck drivers are protesting high fuel prices by driving their rigs slower than normal this morning on Interstate 77 in York ... via Rock Hill Herald

“Our goals are to advance truck driver training, proficiency, and professionalism, and to put quality drivers on the roads.”

With the U.S. soon facing a trucker shortage, the Oxford Hills Technical School relies on professional certification and a rigorous training program to give its attendees a leg up. via Incentive

About a dozen independent truckers from South Carolina have gathered at the Statehouse as part of a loosely organized nationwide protest of high fuel prices. via Tribune-Times

“It's just time for us to make a stand”

Horns blaring, dozens of West Virginia truckers fed up with high fuel costs converged on the state Capitol in protest Friday. via Boston.com

“If it wasn't for my wife, we would have been bankrupt already”

Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices.

Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. Read more

check out the stats on the 2 polls. this was posted yesturday afternoon.

The price of gas is affecting all of us in one way or another, but some even more than other, truckers especially.

April 1: Truck driver David Santiago, of Valrico, Fla., speaks to the media after about 50 independent truck drivers parked their rigs in Tampa, Fla.