Tag: highways: Page 9

Business

I-75 NB/SB lane closures in Kentucky

Lane closures will be in place on southbound I-75 each day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time for three weeks, from MM 29 to the Tennessee state line. NB lane closures and a rest-area closure have more limited duration.

September 25, 2017

Business

Irma flooding closes portions of I-10, I-95 in Florida

State officials have closed I-10 in Lake City in both directions between milemarker 296 and milemarker 301 because of flooding. In the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, there are some closures on I-95 and I-595, as well as some state roads and highways.

September 11, 2017

Overdrive Extra

Road trippin’: Trump’s hollow infrastructure pledge

This industry and the public at large deserve a rational plan, not smoke and mirrors, for maintaining and improving our infrastructure.

September 1, 2017

Business

Unprecedented rainfall, flooding shut down major interstates, highways in southeast Texas

Parts of Houston and southeast Texas have received more than 30 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Harvey since Friday, and the National Weather Service says another 15 to 25 inches could fall through the end of the week.

August 28, 2017

Voices

Arizona Trucking Association uses grant money to educate teens on driving around trucks

The goal is to educate motorists about sharing the road to reduce truck-involved crashes; expand public awareness of sharing the highways with trucks with oversized loads; and reach out to young drivers, senior citizens and others to educate them on how their driving actions around trucks can create unsafe traffic conditions.

July 25, 2017

Business

Eight killed in two fiery truck-involved crashes Tuesday in Texas and Kansas

A crash involving four trucks and two passenger vehicles along I-35 in Waco, Texas, claimed three lives, including a truck driver, and a crash along I-70 in Kansas involving two trucks and four passenger vehicles claimed five lives.

July 13, 2017

Business

Colorado DOT urges truckers to use caution on mountain passes

The department reminds truckers that the speed limit for westbound traffic on U.S. 160 coming downhill from the summit is 25 miles per hour for trucks. This stretch of highway has a 7 percent downhill grade and is more than eight miles from the summit to the base of the pass.

July 12, 2017

Business

Missourians say show me the I-70 project money; state plan includes trucks-only lanes

Missouri leaders continue pondering how to pay for a 200-mile reconstruction of deteriorating I-70. Efforts to ban tolls on the project are ongoing. The most expensive proposal for the project includes four trucks-only lanes.

June 20, 2017

Business

Nevada DOT begins U.S. 95 lane restrictions, shifts

NDOT says beginning Monday night, June 19, it will reduce the southbound side of the highway to one lane between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. through Thursday, June 22.

June 19, 2017

Business

Truckers say rocks thrown from overpass damaged their rigs

The report says the trucks were hit on I-465 on the south side of the city around 1 a.m. Thursday, June 8. The rocks reportedly cracked, dented or shattered the windshields of the trucks.

June 12, 2017

Business

Trump stumps for plan to privatize U.S. highways

Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to adopt his proposal for clipping federal funding for U.S. highways in exchange for incentivizing private companies to pour $800 billion into U.S. roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

June 7, 2017

Business

Trucking groups take issue with Trump’s proposal for highway privatization

Trucking groups regarding Trump’s budget: Tolls aren’t the answer to highway funding shortfall.

May 26, 2017