accidents
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What the Truck?!?
WTT?!? weekday wrap: Australian fires, chain-reaction accidents, the latest economic data, and more [with video]
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…
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News
Five die after trucks hit crashed tour bus on Pennsylvania Turnpike
Sixty people injured in pileup after three tractor-trailers loaded with parcels crash into bus that had struck an embankment in Westmoreland County.
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Air Cargo
Air cargo industry suffered six fatal accidents in 2019
Sixteen people died in six fatal cargo plane crashes in 2019.
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News
Pilot and crew ran ship aground because they ignored navigation equipment
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…
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AvatarFleet President offers solutions to ‘the driver problem’
AvatarFleet is in the business of simplifying the process in which transportation companies find not just drivers, but safe drivers.
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Driver issues
Two truck drivers killed in separate bridge accidents this week on Houston highways
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…
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Asia-Pacific
DOWN UNDER TRUCKING: turning, driving or parked – trucking can be risky
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…
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Asia-Pacific
Down Under Trucking: driver “incinerated” in head-on crash; deadly drunk-driving trucker; hostile takeover target warns shareholders
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,…
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Asia-Pacific
Down Under Trucking: truck accidents; government trucking inquiry; truck driver wins BIG!
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…
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Canada
Trucker sentenced to eight years in Canada crash that killed 16
Accident that killed members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in Saskatchewan spurred efforts improve driver-training standards in country.
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