Jim Purcell Less than 3 months after another semi trailer was “sliced in half by a train” in Le Mars, IA, it’s happened again. Wednesday morning, a westbound Shuster tractor-trailer was crossing the railroad tracks at 18th St. SW and Lincoln Ave., when it was struck by a southbound Canadian National train at the back of the … Read more
Vince Jones of History Channel’s Big Rig Bounty Hunters died early Wednesday morning at his home in Delaware, OH after having a heart attack possibly caused by his diagnosed sleep apnea. He apparently wasn’t wearing his sleep apnea mask when he began having trouble breathing. He was only 46 years old. According to TMZ: “Vince’s … Read more
UPDATE: Well, turns out the trailer of that CRST rig WAS empty, which is no real big surprise. We also know now that the CRST driver was 71-year-old Vinson Lawrence from California, who had this to say: “All of a sudden, it just blew over. It was one scary feeling. The wind just treated this … Read more
Lots of Bud Light wasted early this morning after tractor trailer overturns in Long Island, NY. According to CBS New York, an unlicensed motorist collided with the semi on a Long Island Expressway (I-495) service road at Walt Whitman Road in Melville, NY. The beer truck overturned and hundreds of cases of beer spilled out … Read more
On I-40 in Hickory, NC a 21-year-old rookie driver decided at the last second to take exit 123B. It was a bad decision. The Swift driver just got his CDL last week, and was hospitalized with an injury to his left arm and was “shaken by the accident”. I can imagine. “He just got his … Read more