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Truck driver receives two life sentences for role in grisly human smuggling case
James Bradley Jr. has been sentenced to two concurrent life sentences without parole for his role in the deaths of 10 immigrants who died while being transported in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio last summer.
April 23, 2018
Business
Driver reportedly run over, killed by own truck
When the truck began moving, the driver reportedly attempted to stop it and was run over and killed.
October 18, 2017
Custom Rigs
Next-generation owner-operator Ethan Madden on the 1984 Peterbilt 359 custom rig he’s spent his teens on
Video: catch a variety of views on 17-year-old Ethan Madden’s custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, a truck that’s passed now through three generations of Texas Maddens to score a second in its Antique class at the GATS Pride & Polish a couple weeks back.
September 7, 2017
Business
Trucker charged after 10 found dead in human smuggling operation in Texas
Though the incident appears to be an attempt to smuggle migrants into the U.S., local police have said it is being considered a human trafficking crime. Nearly 40 people were found in the trailer in San Antonio on Saturday.
July 24, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Safety and fuel economy at 85 mph
Given the toll, safety worries and the inability or unwillingness of many truckers to drive 85 mph, heavy-duty trucks could be underrepresented on the new part of SH 130.
October 25, 2012
Channel 19
Too big for Texas?
For one Texas rest stop: Trucks. And if ATA’s Bill Graves has his way, the 85 mph speed limit on a stretch of State Highway 130.
September 13, 2012
Channel 19
Texas technicians rope Rush rodeo grand prizes — vids and more from the event
Sorting though the rich experience that was Rush Truck Centers’ Tech Skills Rodeo, held last week in San Antonio, is I’ve found a task best approached over weeks rather than days. If you missed the results, read on, or see my story from last week here. It’s impossible to get it all into the space […]
December 22, 2010
Channel 19
Scenes from the 2010 Rush Tech Skills Rodeo
I’m in San Antonio, Texas, this morning at the site of Rush Truck Centers’ fifth annual Tech Skills Rodeo, which pits 65 (out of more than 700 entering) of the truck dealer/service center network’s best diesel technicians against each other and a set of bugged vehicles. On the heavy-duty side of the competition, 15 techs […]
December 14, 2010
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