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We've all had a "bad" day, right? Well, few have had it as bad as this driver did on Friday night. Lance Vangel, a 51 year old driver from Sherman, Maine, was cruising north on I-95 Friday evening when he noticed a small fire in his truck, under the dashboard. He pulled over at mile marker 251, north of the Medway...

Usually the stereotype of truck drivers in the Midwest does not include a 38 year-old woman who longs for trips to the beauty salon with a fellow female companion in between shipping loads. Well, meet Jonnie Cassens, a recent subject of a New York Times opinion piece, on how a female truck driver has dealt with the recession. Jonnie, finding work...

Curious how semi trucks of the future might look? Take a peek at Airflow’s BulletTruck prototype. Regardless of whether people find them aesthetically pleasing or not, get used to the idea that the semi truck form will evolve, especially with increasing emissions standards. Right now modern Semis use about 50% of their fuel to fight through the air and use about...

What would you do if you had a not so exciting job, say a snowplow operator, and you saw an opportunity to do something extraordinary? Would you spring into action and become a working class hero or sit on the sidelines and be a cowardly lion, waiting for the “proper” authorities? Well a snow plowman from the Midwest stepped up...

Imagine you’re a trucker, driving along the normal route listening to “On the road again” and headed to the same shipment location. When you arrive, your freight is gone. The shipper says that someone already signed off, loaded, and drove away with 400K worth of stuff. The Shipper thought it was some new guy from your company. Really? It happens. All...

A kind act from a neighborhood truck driver recently went viral. More importantly it made a little autistic boy and his family very happy. Little Daniel Newberger of Ojai California, waited outside every week to greet the driver. He loved watching the garbage truck and even had a replica toy that he carried around with him all the time. One...

The popular adage "If you bought it, a trucker brought it" has held true for almost a century now. However, the men and woman who make the industry run -- the drivers -- are sometimes subject to mistreatment, hidden from the rest of the public. One driver on Youtube, exposed the trucking industry's darker side in his recent video. By law, truck...

An 18 wheeler in Mocoa, Colombia slipped off a windy dirt road and ended up with it's cab hanging off the ledge. Several bystander tried to pull the massive truck back up, but there was nowhere near enough man power to make it budge. That's when truck driver got back into the cab, and attempted to turn the wheels...