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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law a bill that largely prevents lawsuits from being filed directly against insurers after truck crashes.

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The legend of Casey Jones remains alive today in music and pop culture. But the real story is about a serious crash and an act of heroism.

The VP of safety at Reliance Partners joined Dooner during Monday’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? to discuss trends that could be contributing to crash fatalities.

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Safety stats show resilience despite aging ships, cut corners on maintenance and rising pressure on seafarers.

A tractor-trailer carrying 30,000 pounds of eggs crashed early Monday morning on a Dallas highway.

A compilation of the past week in social media images includes winter weather scenes from California to the Southeast.

Winter storm blamed for at least one death in the South is moving through the Northeast on Friday (video forecast included).

A cargo jet made an emergency landing in the ocean off Oahu this past summer. Investigators are now going to pull the wreckage off the ocean floor.

Truckers may be more likely to be involved in accidents at railroad crossings in the Phoenix area than anywhere else in the country.

Nearly 25 years to the day of his accident, Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels recalls the crash that altered his driving habits and the emotional scars that it left on those affected.

A guide for truckers involved in an accident.

Employees can be “your greatest liabilities if they’re not trained properly,” says Infinit-I Workforce Solutions CEO Jay Wommack. So he is offering a free training video for truckers.

The countdown continues, rating the five worst interstates for truckers in bad weather, based on accident statistics.

The countdown continues, rating the five worst interstates for truckers in bad weather, based on accident statistics.

The countdown continues, rating the five worst interstates for truckers in bad weather, based on accident statistics.

The countdown continues, rating the five worst interstates for truckers in bad weather, based on accident statistics.

This begins the countdown of the five worst interstates for truckers in bad weather, based on accident statistics.

We kick off the week with headlines involving major trucking crashes in Pennsylvania and Indiana, the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse websites opening day struggles. Don’t worry, though, if you’re trying to register, the site is now up and operational and you can find it by clicking here. We spend Five Good Minutes with Chief Insight […]

Sixty people injured in pileup after three tractor-trailers loaded with parcels crash into bus that had struck an embankment in Westmoreland County.

Sixteen people died in six fatal cargo plane crashes in 2019.

Poor navigation and poor “bridge resource management” were the cause of the Maersk container ship, the Leda Maersk, running aground in a New Zealand harbor channel during fair weather.

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The driver of a tractor-trailer died during a deadly accident on July 3 after his truck was cut off by another vehicle and fell off the Houston Ship Channel bridge, crashing upside down onto an industrial facility below.  The truck driver – who was identified by Houston police as 24-year-old Marcos Jasso – initially survived, […]

Australia’s a big trucking nation, but you wouldn’t know it from the way some road users drive. Also in this week’s Down Under Trucking: carelessness not terrorism; fugitive truck driver; police and regulatory enforcement.

It was a truly shocking Easter on Australian roads with an appalling double-fatality in which a truck driver was incinerated in a head-on crash. Elsewhere, a drunk big rig driver faced an Australian court after driving backwards down a motorway and then jack-knifing his double-B into a gas station. Meanwhile, following a two-year study, Australian sleep scientists warned truckers that prolonged eye closure is a sign of drowsiness. And, finally, trucking corporations have been introducing new products, buying out shareholders and attempting hostile takeovers. It’s another week in Down Under Trucking.

Down Under Trucking: a round-up of trucking news from Australia. Top news this week: revealed – how trucks have accidents in Australia; a new in-depth government inquiry into trucking and transport. And, finally, how one truck driver thought he was being pranked… but, in reality, he was winning BIG!

Accident that killed members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in Saskatchewan spurred efforts improve driver-training standards in country.

The top five riskiest half square-mile road stretches of 2018.