Several drivers were arrested for hauling illegal drugs along with their normal loads. America’s highways were, as always, dangerous for some drivers. Many died as they drove, including several whose trucks plunged off bridges.
As usual, there were a number of new drivers entered the industry. In one instance, an 87-year-old man sought to become a driver in order to meet bills he faced because of his wife’s illness.
And, of course, you wanted to know more about regulatory issues.
The countdown to the top story goes like this:
10. See what truckers say about personal conveyance
9. Drivers can’t park trucks at their own homes in Rocky Mount, N.C.
8. Trucker robbed at gunpoint off I-75 in Georgia
In August two Florida men were arrested in Indiana when cops found 260 pounds of pot in their truckload of lettuce. (Indiana State Police photo)7. At 87 he wants to start trucking to pay wife’s medical bills
6. Bodies of driver, passenger of Chesapeake bridge crash recovered
5. Trucker busted for $5 million in pot by New Jersey troopers
4. Trucker dies as tractor-trailer crashes off bridge
3. Trucker gets 55 years in jail for 2015 crash that killed 6
2. Two truckers died in Mississippi head-on collision
1. Truckers busted for hauling $1 million worth of pot
Honorable Mentions
- Fire damages trucks, truck stop in California
- Almost 2,000 trucks placed out of service in Texas inspection
- Man, woman charged with capital murder for trucker’s death
- Founder of Illinois carrier passes at 56
- Flying J damaged by fire will be rebuilt, says company
- Missing trucker found dead in Virginia
