8+ hour, 33+ min ago   (74+ words) Published 6:18 pm Sunday, September 13, 2026 HAMPTON — A tractor-trailer rollover was reported Sunday on Highway 19E near Simerly Creek in Carter County. The crash occurred in the 5900 block of Highway 19E near Dollar General. The northbound lane was closed as emergency crews responded to…...

9+ hour, 9+ min ago   (239+ words) Researchers pulled 75 real-world accidents from 2015 through 2024, each involving a heavy truck classified under ECE Class N2 or N3 and a vulnerable road user on foot, on a bicycle, or on a motorcycle. Every case in the sample involved a fatality or a…...

10+ hour, 4+ min ago   (735+ words) Hooking up a trailer changes what your truck’s dashboard is trying to say. The same amber symbol that meant “top up a tire next week” in July means something more urgent when you are loaded to the hitch on a…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (47+ words) westkentuckystar.com Driver flown to Nashville after semi overturns in Graves County Yet another late season heat wave this week Two-vehicle crash in McCracken County sends two to the hospital Livingston Hospital gives community permanent connection to redevelopment...

20+ hour, 44+ min ago   (727+ words) The diesel was supposed to stay for the dump trailer. Jerry Hiebert had bought a Tesla Cybertruck, nicknamed it Jack, and put it to work collecting construction materials and making monthly dump runs. He still intended to keep his Denali…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (837+ words) Automotive novices don’t need to know much about the inner workings of a truck to recognize when a heavy-duty pickup doesn’t look quite right. In a viral video, it's clear from the start that the GMC Sierra’s rear wheel has…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (505+ words) September 13, 2026 — A Ram 1500 class action lawsuit alleges Hurricane engine problems ruin the trucks, sometimes with only a few hundred miles on the vehicles. The lawsuit includes 2025 Ram 1500 trucks equipped with 3-liter Hurricane engines which allegedly have defective engine control modules…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (987+ words) John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week. He's drawn…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (334+ words) TAKOMA PARK, Md. (7News) — Washington Adventist University is mourning two students who were killed Friday in a head-on crash involving a car and a dump truck near Bridgeville, Delaware. Delaware State Police identified the victims Saturday as Blem Lopez-Lopez, 19, of Millsboro, Delaware,…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (320+ words) Volvo Trucks North America’s unattended over-the-air software updates are now available in trucks across the U.S. and Canada, completing a rollout the company announced in June. The capability lets a driver start a software update, lock the truck and walk…...