Pennsylvania Turnpike
-
FreightWaves Classics
FreightWaves Classics: Pennsylvania Turnpike was nation’s first superhighway (Part 3)
Learn more about the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Part 3 of this FreightWaves Classics article.
Read More » -
FreightWaves Classics
FreightWaves Classics: Pennsylvania Turnpike was nation’s first superhighway (Part 2)
Part 2 of the FreightWaves Classics article about the Pennsylvania Turnpike looks at its more recent history.
Read More » -
FreightWaves Classics
FreightWaves Classics: Pennsylvania Turnpike was first superhighway in the US (Part 1)
The Pennsylvania Turnpike was the first "superhighway" in the U.S. Read its history in this FreightWaves Classics article.
Read More » -
Podcast
Killers who target truckers — Long-Haul Crime Log
The Turnpike Phantom was a killer who preyed on sleeping truckers nearly 70 years ago. FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast Long-Haul Crime Log revisits those events as…
Read More » -
Infrastructure
Freight helping major toll highways weather pandemic
Pennsylvania Turnpike cites surge in e-commerce as a factor.
Read More » -
Legal issues
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear OOIDA’s appeal of toll ruling
Owner-operator group calls decision “highway robbery."
Read More » -
News
UPS identifies drivers killed in Pennsylvania Turnpike crash
UPS says Daniel Kepner, 53, and Dennis Kehler, 48, were driving together in one of the three tractor-trailers involved in the early morning pileup east…
Read More » -
News
Police probe deadly ‘chain reaction’ crash of trucks, bus on PA Turnpike
UPS and FedEx offer cooperation to authorities and sympathies to victims in collision that left five people dead and scores injured 30 miles east of…
Read More » -
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.
Read More »