Tag: roadkill

Overdrive Extra
Goodbye, Bambi, we hardly knew ye
In the latest installment of Overdrive’s Worst Case Trucking Scenarios series, we take a look at how to avoid hitting a deer.
July 7, 2015
An adult deer or buck weighs about 150 to 200 pounds. A bear can weigh up to 600 pounds, and a full-grown elk or moose can surpass 1,200 pounds – more than half a ton. (Art by Rob Smith Jr.)
Business
Roadkill diaries: Armadillo zombies
“I stop bothering with variety in roadkill during the stretch between San Antonio and Laredo. Everything is shriveled up and blows away about an hour after it’s hit. The only thing that remains intact enough to recognize is – you guessed it – armadillos.”
August 29, 2014
Armadillo
Channel 19
Hawk to DOT: “Point me to the nearest roadkill?”
What happens when a bird of prey tries to communicate with a DOT traffic camera? It makes for good humor on Twitter.
November 6, 2012
Hawk On Wa Dot Camera
Channel 19
Dangerous roads — for animals — cataloged in California, Maine
The last time Truckers News addressed the subject of dangerous roads, you might forgive us for having focused on the obvious, the treacherous mountain passes, cold and snowy winter roads and congested urban centers that make the job of the nation’s truck drivers a sometimes harrowing adventure. Researchers and other users of  the California and […]
September 29, 2010
Roadkill
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