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Dashcam footage shows the moment a tractor-trailer narrowly missed colliding with an Ohio school bus after the brakes failed.

With so much talk of the trucker shortage and big wage bonuses for people willing to get behind the wheel, a New Jersey driving school said that it would be able to churn out more truckers – if it weren’t for pandemic-related red tape at the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission.

If there’s one common thread linking supply chain woes throughout most of the U.S., it’s the struggle to get more truck drivers out on the roads. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso went to a trucking school in New Jersey to find out why it is taking so long to fill thousands of truck driving jobs.

A shortage of tanker truck drivers may lead to rising gas prices and even dry pumps at fueling stations, experts warn as many Americans are back on the road and gearing up for the summer travel season, NBC News reports.

The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to England last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. The bodies arrived on a flight that landed in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, the news website VNExpress reported. The website published photos of ambulances that transported...

About 80 homes have been evacuated after a tractor trailer carrying compressed natural gas overturned on an upstate New York highway

A U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer tumbled off a busy South Jersey highway Friday morning, leaving it perched nearly upright off an overpass.

The driver of the public works truck that flipped over an overpass near the Lincoln Tunnel helix Wednesday, creating a shocking spectacle and wreaking traffic havoc for hours, described a harrowing few moments in which he desperately tried to save lives on the ground while doing what he could to keep his own.

A body believed to be a missing 5-year-old Utah girl was found Wednesday less than a block from her home, bringing a wide-ranging search to a grim close five days after the child was taken from her home and killed by her uncle, police said. The body believed to be Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley was found hidden under trees and brush...

Four people died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on a crowded section of Interstate 70 near Denver, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off of cars, authorities said Friday. Authorities had to wait until daylight to confirm the death toll from Thursday afternoon’s 28-vehicle pileup because of the devastation caused by...

A Queens man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 72-year-old cyclist, police say.

A pedestrian who was hit by a tractor-trailer when he tried to take a shortcut and scooted underneath the vehicle last week in New Jersey has died.

Authorities say a pedestrian who tried to take a shortcut by scooting underneath a parked tractor-trailer was critically injured when the driver started up the vehicle and drove away.

A New Hampshire state worker had a deep gash on his face after a large piece of ice came flying off a truck, smashing right through his windshield. William Taylor of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation has eight to nine stitches, a fat lip and other cuts on his face.

Friends are recalling two brothers and two friends in their early 20s who died in a crash on a major New Jersey highway early Wednesday.

Four friends no older than 24, including two brothers and a U.S. Marine, died in a collision involving a car and an oil tanker on the Garden State Parkway early Wednesday, family members and authorities say.

A 61-year-old NYC woman was killed in NJ when she was struck by two different vehicles, and police have arrested the driver who fled the scene.

Five people were hurt, one of them critically, when a tractor-trailer carrying cement careened into a discount store and deli in New Jersey Thursday, cops say.

Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people when he drove his truck onto a New York City bike path said Tuesday that the death penalty should be ruled out because President Donald Trump was “uninformed and full or rage” when he called for it.

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the man charged with murdering eight people on a New York City bike path and injuring many more.