Article Summary
Trucking news and briefs for Monday, June 29, 2026:
- Major interstate closure partially reopening.
- Japan-bound cargo recovered after suspected theft in Pennsylvania.
- New rest area planned in this state.
- Police to truckers: Do your pre-trip and don't violate OOS orders.
Kentucky making progress on I-65 closures in downtown Louisville
A two-mile section of I-65 southbound in Louisville, Kentucky, reopened Monday June 29 -- two days ahead of schedule, reflecting continued progress on the project to replace three key bridges along the corridor.
Reopening I-65 SB from University Boulevard to the Watterson Expressway (Interstate Highway 264) also reopens four ramps: both on- and off-ramps at Crittenden Drive and the on-ramps from Eastern Parkway and University Boulevard.
SB I-65 between downtown Louisville (Jefferson Street) to University Boulevard remains closed as construction continues.
“It’s great to see that we’re not just meeting this key milestone but on track to beat it by at least a couple of days,” said Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Goodman. “We know how many drivers rely on I-65 every day, and crews are working hard to hit all deadlines.”
The full closure of I-65 that began June 1 has allowed contract crews to complete enough work at the Bradley Avenue bridge over I-65 to reopen SB lanes to traffic.
Through traffic should still use the official signed detour to I-264 WB (Georgia Davis Powers Expressway) and I-64. The detour route uses roadways with the most available capacity and creates the least traffic impacts.
[Related: Another big interstate closure: Construction season heats up]
Driver arrested in Indiana for suspected cargo theft
Police in Indiana arrested a truck driver who allegedly used fraudulent documents to obtain a load of nearly 40,000 pounds of tungsten oxide powder that was bound for Japan, valued at more than $2.8 million. The commodity was being shipped to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation.
On Saturday, June 27, Greenfield (Indiana) Police Department officers were alerted to a wanted tractor-trailer traveling westbound on I-70 that was allegedly involved in the June 25 cargo theft in Pennsylvania.
Deepak KumarGreenfield Police Department
The truck and trailer were impounded by Inman’s Towing out of Greenfield, and after obtaining a search warrant, police confirmed the stolen cargo was present in the trailer. A representative of Mitsubishi arrived in Greenfield on June 28 and took possession of the stolen goods.
[Related: Cargo theft proliferation ups the ante on truckers' prevention]
Colorado planning new rest area along I-25
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has a new rest area along I-25 on its construction schedule near Pueblo, as the existing location “serves a growing number of motorists, commercial operators, recreationalists and local travelers,” CDOT said.
The new rest area, west of I-25 at Exit 108, will accommodate both north- and southbound motorists. The proposed design will provide 50 truck parking spaces and 95 car parking spaces, nine picnic shelters and one large picnic area, a fenced pet relief area, and sidewalks and crosswalks to safely access the building.
The location provides access to municipal water and sewer facilities and has the capacity to add a transit hub, park and ride spaces, and increased freight parking, CDOT added, which ought to come as welcome news for Overdrive readers. In our Truckers' Highway Report Card published late last year, Colorado ranked 9th worst among all states nationwide for a dearth of parking available there.
Reasons truckers' earmarked for choosing Colorado as worst in the parking category:
- Spaces are extremely limited: 79%
- Almost everything available is pay-to-park: 42%
- Generally the region isn’t friendly to tractor-trailers: 63%
- Commenters singled out the Denver area in particular and worried over security in many places throughout the state.
With the new rest area, CDOT wants the the public’s input on what the new building there should look like. A survey to provide input is available here.
[Related: Truckers' 2025 Highway Report Card: Worst roads, states, parking]
Truck involved in single-vehicle I-40 crash operating for fleet with OOS order
The Arizona Department of Public Safety last week offered details of a single-vehicle crash, using the opportunity to highlight the importance of pre-trip inspections.
On June 23, 2026, Arizona Highway Patrol State Troopers with the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit responded to a single-vehicle incident on I-40. The locking jaws were not engaged on the truck’s fifth wheel, and the trailer came loose while driving down the road due to the handle clearly not engaged on the left side of the fifth wheel plate, AZ DPS said.
Thankfully, the no other vehicles were involved in the crash and no one was hurt. The trailer, however, loaded with orange juice, slid to a stop in the emergency lane where it caught fire.
Further inspection of the truck revealed several brakes “intentionally made inoperable by caging as they were protruding from the brake chambers,” AZ DPS added.
Additionally, “the company was illegally operating while under a Federal Out-of-Service Order.”
The driver of the truck was issued “numerous citations,” AZ DPS noted, adding that the company “can expect the same.”
