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ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB/Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana are investigating a crash involving a semitruck that collided with an interstate bridge. According to the Louisiana State Police, the crash was reported on Friday morning on Interstate 49 near exit 61. State police said fatigue seemed to be a factor in the crash, as the driver fell asleep. There were no injuries in the crash, but the bridge’s structure will have to be evaluated for safety due to damage from the collision, authorities noted. Trucks with oversized loads traveling north on I-49 have been instructed to take a detour on U.S....

California’s immigrant truckers are under direct threat, and the consequences are already landing in Sacramento’s neighborhoods, warehouses and family households. Drivers with spotless records are walking into the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) locations expecting a routine renewal of their commercial driver's license and walking out unemployed — not because they failed a test or violated a law, but because a federal agency quietly rewrote immigration categories and ordered states to enforce the fallout. This is a bureaucratic ambush. A new rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is sowing confusion across California’s supply chain and logistics network at...

A truck driver in the country illegally has been released on a $100,000 bond after a fatal wreck in Washington late last week. 25-year-old Kamalpreet Singh, of Elk Grove, California was arrested on Thursday, December 11th after a crash on SR 167 in King County, Washington. He was released on $100,000 bond on Sunday, December 14th. According to Auburn Examiner, Singh crashed into the back of a Mazda sedan that was stopped just behind a Peterbilt on northbound SR 167 south of SR 18. The force of the impact crushed the Mazda between the two semi trucks, killing the motorist,...

A King County judge set bail at $100,000 for a California truck driver accused in a three vehicle crash on northbound SR 167 near SR 18 in Auburn that killed a 29-year-old Bonney Lake man on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. As we previously reported, Kamalpreet Singh, 25, of Elk Grove, California, was arrested Thursday morning on investigation of vehicular homicide following the crash, according to the Washington State Patrol and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. At Singh’s first appearance hearing, prosecutors argued there was probable cause for his arrest and requested that bail be set at $100,000. After hearing...

— Several people throughout California were arrested in connection with a series of semi-truck and trailer thefts in Sutter County and surrounding areas. . The first reported theft was on Aug. 3, when the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office responded to Larkin Road in Live Oak for reports of a stolen semi-truck and trailer. The person who reported the property stolen said the trailer was carrying about $400,000 worth of product. The Woodland Police Department reportedly found the trailer abandoned. However, it was empty. Additionally, the Sacramento Police Department found the semi-truck within Sacramento city limits. Nearly three weeks later, on...

LACEY, Wash. — A commercial truck driver was arrested at the scene of a six-car pileup crash that involved a school bus in Lacey on Thursday morning. According to the Washington State Patrol, the driver of a semi-truck that was hauling cars slammed into the back of the school bus just after 7:00 a.m. on I-5 near Martin Road. Troopers said the driver of the semi did not have a commercial driver’s license, insurance, or a valid medical card. “In this situation, there is a lot of negligence involved,” said Trooper Kameron Watts. “We actually dispatched some commercial vehicle enforcement...

Ren Hatt, the mayor of Green River, died in a crash Friday night on U.S. Highway 6. “Our community is heartbroken today,” the city posted Saturday on its Facebook page. According to a news release from the Utah Highway Patrol, Hatt was headed east on U.S. Highway 6 about eight miles west of Green River, when a westbound semitrailer truck drifted into oncoming traffic. The semitruck collided with the Hyundai Palisade that Hatt was driving, killing him, UHP said. The semitruck driver was not injured, according to the release. Officials said they were not sure what caused the semitruck driver...

Pickup truck enthusiasts rejoiced this week after President Donald Trump moved to roll back auto regulations, paving the way for smaller, cheaper cars and trucks, including the storied Toyota Hilux Champ.“We’re officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that impose expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems,” Trump said at an Oval Office press conference Wednesday. Addressing the ease of restrictions, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy affirmed, “He gave me the directive to clear the regulations on this, which we have, and so if Toyota or any other company wants to make smaller, more...

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) called out a truck driver for failing to obey multiple signs before crashing into a ditch. On November 5, 2025, troopers with CHP’s Hollister-Gilroy Division took to social media to detail how ignoring signs got a truck driver into trouble in the Gilroy, California, area. CHP “After failing to obey three regulatory signs advising not to take this road, this commercial driver drove onto San Juan Highway towards San Juan Bautista anyway and realized that his vehicle was not going to be able to negotiate a tight roundabout ahead. He was left no choice but...

Pennsylvania State Police have charged a truck driver with ignoring height limit signs and causing damage to a historic covered bridge in Paradise Township. According to a report from state police, Dragan Markov, 53, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was operating a Volvo tractor-trailer that exceeded the 10½ feet of clearance of the Leaman Place Covered Bridge, which carries North Belmont Road over Pequea Creek on the Leacock-Paradise township line. Police say the truck caused significant structural damage to the bridge. Wooden struts on the inside of the bridge were damaged along with the bridge’s maximum clearance signs. Markov has been...

A truck driver was filmed attempting a u-turn on a dead end suburban street in this video of mild destruction. In the video, a truck driver makes his way down a dead-end suburban street until he reaches the end. The end of the street is not even a cul-de-sac, but the driver attempts a u-turn anyway, wreaking some serious havoc. As the driver tries to turn around, he tears down a metal fence while driving up onto another homeowner’s yard. e of what appears to be the truck driver is shown at the end – just a man with a...

My gosh, this is hilarious...well, it would be if foreign truck drivers weren't killing people.

BOZEMAN — A fatal multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 claimed the life of a 42-year-old Bozeman woman on Wednesday afternoon. According to a Montana Highway Patrol report, a 53-year-old Billings man, driving a Peterbilt truck in the eastbound lane, struck several vehicles that were slowing down due to a construction zone, near mile marker 311. The driver stated to troopers that he was checking his email at the time of the crash. The truck driver did not slow down in the construction zone and continued at highway speeds, striking the rear of a VW Golf, driven by the Bozeman woman...

BILL OF COMPLAINT The State of Florida, by and through its Attorney General, James Uthmeier, brings this suit against Defendants, the State of California and the State of Washington, and for its claims for relief states: 1. California’s and Washington’s open defiance of federal immigration laws is well-documented. Both States routinely frustrate and hinder federal law enforcement from addressing the immigration crisis and the destruction that accompanies it. 2. As relevant here, this resistance includes failing to honor the federal safety regulations regarding the commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) needed to operate eighteen-wheelers and other commercial motor vehicles. Federal law requires...

ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) -- Three people were killed in a fiery crash involving as many as eight vehicles, including four semi-trucks, on the 10 Freeway in Ontario on Tuesday. The crash occurred on the westbound 10 Freeway just east of the 15 Freeway shortly before 1:15 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol. The wreck shut down several lanes in the area, bringing traffic to a standstill. The violent crash was captured on dashcam video obtained exclusively by ABC7. It shows a semi-truck slam into the back of an SUV and then plow into multiple other vehicles in the same lane....

20-year-old woman killed crossing Clairmont Road in Brookhaven Police say dump truck driver left scene, returned 20 minutes later Omar Ali charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit and run BROOKHAVEN, Ga. - A 54-year-old Mableton man has been arrested in connection with a deadly pedestrian crash Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Clairmont Road and Dresden Drive, according to the Brookhaven Police Department. What we know: Investigators say Omar Ali was driving a dump truck around 12:06 p.m. when he struck a 20-year-old woman who was lawfully crossing the street in a marked crosswalk. Police said Ali was turning...

A 54-year-old man was killed Wednesday in a multi-vehicle crash on U.S. 20 near Douglas Drive in Portage, Indiana, after a semi-truck crossed into oncoming traffic and hit his Subaru Crosstrek. Investigators say the semi driver, Broko Stankovic of Lyons, Illinois, swerved to avoid a stopped van but lost control, causing the semi to jackknife and strike multiple vehicles. Police found Stankovic was driving without a valid commercial license and using a suspended CDL belonging to a family member; he faces felony charges of criminal recklessness resulting in death and reckless homicide. PORTAGE, Ind. - An Indiana man is dead...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — States throughout the U.S. have revoked driving privileges for 5,500 commercial truck drivers who failed basic English assessments while working north of the border, according to Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of Mexico’s Northwest Chamber of Freight Transporters. “So far, we’ve registered 5,500 out of service and suspended licenses, we are seeing harder and more stringent enforcement,” Delgado Vallejo said. Six months ago, President Trump issued an executive order reinstituting an existing law that mandates commercial truck drivers must speak and understand enough English to read road signs and interact with law enforcement. Delgado Vallejo...

CEDAR CITY, Utah (KUTV) — A new emergency action plan by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation has temporarily paused the issuance and renewal of commercial driver's licenses across the country. States must now audit their licensing systems, which have left many legal non-citizens unsure if they can keep working. “I got to keep driving down these roads of a country that doesn't really want me here,” said Jorge Rivera, a truck driver from Enoch. Rivera is one of roughly 580,000 people across the country under DACA, a federal program that allows immigrants brought to the United States as children to...

A Florida truck driver has been charged in connection with a deadly crash that killed three people and injured five others in Ellington Township, Michigan, last week. The two-vehicle crash happened at around 9 p.m. on Sept. 26 on Deckerville Road near Hurds Corner Road. Authorities said Pavel Shchukin, 55, was driving a semi-truck on Hurds Corner Road when he failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a Jeep traveling eastbound on Deckerville Road. Eight Cass City residents were in the Jeep at the time of the crash. Investigators said three people died at the scene, and...