Community Activities - ATD Calls on Trucking Community to Support "Suspend The FET" Week

But on I-44 close to the state line, site visitors slowed to a crawl. "I was on the phone with them when it happened on that day, and the telephone just went dead," Ronnie mentioned. The semi pushed by 76-12 months-outdated Donald Creed rolled on prime of three vehicles, killing 10, including Hooks’ dad and mom and Trucking territories two brothers. On Aug. 19 in Newark, New Jersey, a bus was T-boned by one other N.J. Transit bus driven by a 70-year-outdated. Two people died. Days later, on Aug. 25, a truck hauling stones driven by a 74-year-previous slammed into visitors in a building zone in Binghamton, New York. A CBS News evaluation of crash information reveals a 19 percent enhance in accidents involving industrial truck and bus drivers in their 70s, 80s and even 90s, in simply the last three years. From 2013 to 2015, there have been greater than 6,636 involving elderly drivers in 12 states alone. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt.