Driver recognized after stopping to help after witnessing accident
Oklahoma City-based truck driver Jim Higginbotham came up on a crash in which a driver had been ejected from his car. He stopped and stayed with the man and the other driver involved in the crash until emergency personnel arrived.
Two drivers recognized for saving baby locked in car
The drivers came across a young family whose young daughter had accidentally locked their baby inside their pickup truck. The drivers helped the family unlock the truck to get to their baby.
Trucker named Highway Angel for third time after helping detain drunk driver
After witnessing a single-vehicle crash, Christopher Lemaire stopped to help the driver, who tried to flee the scene. Lemaire detained the driver until police arrived, who informed him the driver had hit two cars a few miles back and fled.
Two drivers recognized as Highway Angels for helping stranded colleague
Scott Wagner, a driver for Spartan Direct, and Robert Barnette, an owner-operator with Swift, jumped in Barnette’s truck and drove 38 miles to help a colleague who had a flat tire on her way to the Mid-America Trucking Show in March.
Texas-based driver recognized after stopping to help motorists after witnessing crash
Michael Morgan was driving about 45 mph in the right lane when a Lexus SUV came around on his left and got just far enough in front of him for him to see the license plate before the driver lost control on the slick road and spun out.
Trucker recognized after helping motorist stuck in snowstorm
Truck driver Donald Wood got out of his truck and crossed the road, where he found a small pickup truck with a camper trailer stuck in a snowdrift. Inside the pickup was an elderly man and his dog.
Despite loosened marijuana laws, CDL holders must still clear drug tests
Presenters in a webinar on Thursday reiterated a point well reported by Overdrive in recent years: Failing a drug test for marijuana use disqualifies drivers from operating, even if they’re using the substance of medical reasons or in a legal state.
Trucker named Highway Angel for stopping and helping motorist with car fire
Flames were coming from underneath the hood of the car, so Gubaci pulled over to the shoulder, grabbed his fire extinguisher and rushed over to put out the fire, which was between the motor and the firewall.
Louisiana-based trucker named Highway Angel for helping ejected crash victims
Christopher Lemaire, of Erath, Louisiana, and a driver for Revere Transportation, is a former highway patrol officer who witnessed a crash on Feb. 11 along I-35 in Kansas. He saw a car skidding out of control, which hit a culvert in the median, sending…
How to make the transition to the ELD spec from grandfathered e-logs, or AOBRDs
The key thing for trucking companies large and small to know about the Dec. 17, 2019, last-permissible date to utilize grandfathered electronic-logging-devices-by-another-name (that’d be those AOBRDs), is that it’s not too early to start making the tra…