Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: Colorado
Parking
Parking perils: The increasing cost, and risk, of booting and towing
Booting and towing incidents have become more numerous and more costly, owner-operators and others report. Some advocates call for national regulation of the practice, particularly when drivers are asleep in their trucks.
January 2, 2020
Business
PrePass, Drivewyze add grade warning notifications for I-70 in Colorado
Bypass providers PrePass and Drivewyze have partnered with the Colorado DOT to provide alert services to warn of steep grades on I-70 in the state. In addition to the alerts from PrePass and Drivewye, CDOT has created an educational campaign for drivers in response to an increase in truck crashes along I-70âs mountainous areas.
August 20, 2019
Parking
Penn., Colorado truck parking workshops with FHWA
A series of parking-focused workshops hosted by the Federal Highway Administration in collaboration with local/regional metropolitan planning organizations and state DOTs around the country continues tomorrow, May 30, in Colorado, then in Pennsylvania next month.
May 29, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs
Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederholdâs quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.
May 13, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Tales of three runaway trucks: Crises endured and averted, lessons learned
The advice was good then and it's good now -- see a massive pileup, a multi-fatality runaway, ask yourself, "Could it have been you?" Owner-operator Gordon Alkire's '70s runaway tale, among others, shows it could. When you least expect it.
May 3, 2019
Business
Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fiery crash on I-70 near Denver; interstate closed in both directions
According to Ty Countryman with the Lakewood (Colorado) Police Department, 23-year-old Texas-based truck driver Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos was traveling eastbound on I-70 and lost control of his truck before coming up on backed-up traffic.
April 26, 2019
Voices
Colin Young presents âBecause some of us are too good to waitâ
Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedriveâs âDashcam Centralâ repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the âroad was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently itâs OK to pass on the shoulder if youâre behind an ambulance.â
April 23, 2019
Business
Colorado DOT to study allowing hazmat trucks to travel through I-70âs Eisenhower Tunnel
Currently, trucks hauling hazmat are banned from using the tunnel and must use Loveland Pass (U.S. Highway 6). A new Colorado law requires CDOT to study the feasibility of allowing hazmat transportation through the tunnel and to report on whether, and under what conditions, hazmat through the tunnel should be allowed.
April 12, 2019
Business
Blizzard shuts down interstates in Nebraska, South Dakota
Portions of I-76, I-80, I-90 and I-29 in Nebraska and South Dakota are closed Thursday as a result of a blizzard that hit the region Wednesday.
April 11, 2019
Business
Interstates shut down in Rockies, Plains following intense blizzard
An intense blizzard that consisted of hurricane-force wind gusts and heavy snow has forced the closure of some major highways in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota. Portions of I-25, I-80, I-90, I-94 and I-29 are closed throughout the region.
March 14, 2019
Voices
Colin Young has a message for Colorado State Patrol: Enforce increasing problem of unsafe passing on mountain roads
Dashcam Central video from Colin Young shows a precarious Loveland Pass two-lane pass made by a pickupâs driver with just a hair of space available between the pickup, oncoming traffic and the nose of Youngâs rig. âWorst part is that the State Patrol does nothing to stop this increasing problem.â
February 12, 2019
Business
I-70 WB in Colorado closed from rock slide; lane reductions scheduled for I-15 in Nevada Wednesday
Colorado and Nevada Department of Transportations announces road closings and lane reductions in their respective states. Get more details here on Overdrive.
February 5, 2019
Page 1 of 4
Next Page
