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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A truck driver who came to Memphis to recover a tractor-trailer stolen from the Chicago area stayed inside the big rig for nearly 34 hours to prevent A1’s Towing and Hauling from taking it. The owner of MHT Group Inc. said his driver gassed up at the Shelby Express on East Shelby Drive, pulled into a spot, and was in the process of paying for parking through his dispatch when A1’s booted and blocked in the vehicle. “We got a receipt. We called the gas station. We showed the receipt. We called the towing company, and they...

He tries moving them out of the way bodily, and they keep coming back. He finally just runs one over. He's still alive in the end of the clip. Threatens soy girl with fist.

Five semis, a car and a truck were all hit. Two people in the Honda Accord were pinned inside the car for about five hours and were pronounced dead at the scene, an OHP report said. Court documents identified one of the victims as Conrad Rodgers. The other victim's identity hasn't been released. Tony Aghaji was charged with causing the crash. At the time, he was taken to a Texas hospital, where he was treated and released. The 38-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida was arrested after his release. According to an affidavit, Aghaji was talking to a delivery driver...

Three men and three women were killed, ranging in age from 28 to 75, police said. Police spokeswoman Mirjam Boers said the truck driver, a 46-year-old Spanish man, is suspected of causing the accident that happened early Saturday evening in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland. His identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy laws. The large truck the man was driving left a small rural road and careered down the bank of the dike and plowed into the village gathering. Boers said the driver was not under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash. “We are...

ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A tractor-trailer driver is charged with driving under the influence after he crashed and stripped naked along Interstate 70 in Rostraver Township, police said. The crash happened Nov. 4 when the truck went off I-70 eastbound, down a hill and into trees. Orelbis Cruz Iglesias, 26, was driving the truck. A witness told police that as he approached the crash, Iglesias could be seen outside the truck taking his clothes off until he was naked. Iglesias, of Lehigh Acres, Florida, was taken to a hospital by paramedics. Police found a loaded handgun in the cab of...

The man who is poised to topple one of New Jersey’s most feared political kingpins has never held public office, he has been a commercial truck driver for 25 years and he claims to have spent a whopping $153 during the primary portion of his campaign. His name is Edward Durr, and he may be on the verge of one of the most unthinkable upsets in New Jersey political history. With 98% of the vote counted, Durr, the Republican Senate candidate in the South Jersey-based 3rd legislative district, leads New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney by roughly 2,000 votes —...

A man appeared to have been punched and kicked unconscious by demonstrators just blocks away from a peaceful protest in Portland, as unrest continued in Oregon’s biggest city. Multiple videos posted online apparently showed the man sitting in the street next to a truck he had been driving, which had crashed and come to a stop on a sidewalk on Sunday night, news outlets reported. People were crowded around the man and he appeared to have been punched at least once and later kicked in the head – knocking him flat. The man was taken to a hospital with serious...

SAN DIEGO -- A man was charged in federal court Tuesday in connection with the deaths of three Chinese migrants, including a mother and her 15-year-old son, who were found dead in the trunk of a car. Prosecutors said Neil Edwin Valera, a U.S. citizen who resides in Tijuana, smuggled the three migrants in his BMW and left them in the trunk of the car two days after he crossed into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in the same car. Valera, a truck driver from El Paso, Texas, was taken into custody at the downtown...

“We got a call of a robbery at the shell gas station just north of St. Johns on the north bound frontage of I-35,” said Lieutenant Ken Hubbs with the Austin Police Department. The victim told police they were assaulted and robbed inside their vehicle. Officials said a white female fled in a tan car and a black male suspect fled on foot... According to police the suspect attempted to cross the busy highway when he was hit by the 18-wheeler. “We don't have any witnesses besides the officer that saw him last,” said Lt Hubbs... Police are still seeking...

Wanted: truck drivers. Amid an otherwise strong corporate earnings environment, cost inflation within the trucking and freight industry is becoming a real concern for many companies. "It's a real bear," Tyson Foods (TSN - Get Report) CEO Tom Hayes told TheStreet about the inflationary pressures of the shortage. Approximately 60,000 drivers are needed to meet robust demand for trucking services, and that may be a conservative estimate. The shortage could be upwards of 100,000 or more, Seaport Global Securities LLC analyst Kevin Sterling told TheStreet. The driver shortage stems from several factors, according to Sky Harbor's Director of Research Michael...

The Mississippi Democratic Party received a shock this week when its favored candidate lost in the primary to a truck driver who didn’t spend a single cent on his campaign and says that he was too busy to vote for himself. 46-year-old Robert Gray won the gubernatorial primary with more than 50 percent of the vote. He carried all but three of the state’s counties. He got a call from his mother on election day who was excited that she voted for a candidate with her son’s name—she didn’t know it was actually him because he hadn’t told any of...

Robert Gray of Jackson, who won the Democratic primary for governor over two candidates, Vicki Slater, a trial lawyer backed by much of the Democratic establishment and Dr. Valerie Adream Smartt Short, an obstetrician-gynecologist, is interviewed in the hallway of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. Gray, a long distance truck driver, was a surprise winner, having spent virtually no money on advertisement and doing a limited amount of campaigning. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

U.S. officials charged an Uzbek citizen in Idaho with providing bomb-making knowledge and other support to an Islamist militant group, knowing that it would be used in an attack, authorities said on Thursday. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, a national of Uzbekistan living legally in Idaho, was arrested in Boise and faces a three-count grand jury indictment in Idaho and a single-count indictment in Utah, prosecutors said. They said Kurbanov provided information and money to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group supports establishing strict Islamic rule in Uzbekistan. Authorities said...

RENO, Nev. (CBS/AP) — Authorities plan to look into the driving and medical records of the semitrailer driver who died when the truck slammed into an Amtrak train, killing a train crew member and injuring dozens of passengers. Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said they also will look at autopsy results to determine whether the driver had consumed any drugs around the time of the collision Friday. The big rig plowed into the California-bound train at a crossing in a rural area about 70 miles east of Reno. Knudson said federal investigators would make sure...

A New Zealand truck driver who inflated "like a balloon" when he fell buttocks-first onto a compressed air nozzle is being described as lucky to be alive. While working on Saturday, Steven McCormack slipped between the cab and the trailer of his truck and was impaled in the thigh by a high-pressure air cylinder which saw his body pumped full of compressed air. The 48-year-old Bay of Plenty truckie told the Whakatane Beacon he felt as if he was going to explode and began to scream as his neck, feet and hands swelled up. "I was blowing up like a...

LOWELL, Mass. — Police said a Massachusetts lumber truck crashed into a home after the driver was knocked unconscious by a small chili from Wendy's. Lowell police said Eric Gremm reported that he choked on the chili when the truck hit a bump, causing him to pass out as the flatbed truck veered off the road and slammed into the home. The man, 59, said emergency workers at the scene told him that he had passed out, but he could not remember losing consciousness.

Former Arrow Trucking Company driver John M. Eischens Jr., 34, of Mabank, Texas, is missing and has not been heard from since Christmas Day. The story of his disappearance becomes even more disturbing when one examines the events that preceded it.

WEIRTON, W.Va. - A Pennsylvania truck driver is being called a hero, credited with saving a woman's life after she suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel of her car. And the entire incident was caught on tape. George Lantzy, a truck driver from Monroeville, Penn., says he was driving along US 22 in West Virginia when he noticed a white car weaving in and out of the eastbound lanes. As other drivers pulled over and tried to jump out and stop the car, Lantzy said he knew something was very wrong and jumped into action. "When I was coming...

Published: March 10, 2009 04:00 am print this story email this story Arrests made in man's murder By Mark Boshnack Staff Writer A Schoharie County man murdered in South Carolina on Thursday was apparently killed for $7, the Calhoun County sheriff said Monday. Three South Carolina men are facing charges in the murder of Jason Rivenburg, 35, of Fultonham, said county Sheriff Thomas Summers at a press conference Monday. He was reached for comment later in the day. Rivenburg, a 1991 Schoharie Central School graduate and Cobleskill native, was driving a tractor-trailer and had pulled off at a rest stop...

Dramatic pictures of Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson deliberately smashing a truck into a wall have been released. A Top Gear spokeswoman said the star was "quite badly injured" in the stunt, staged, she said, to "see how difficult it was to be a truck driver".