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U.S. companies are expected to create more than 115,000 truck driver jobs per year through 2016.

Utah-based trucking company can't find enough drivers

Last updated Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 2:37pm

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tribe Transportation is a growing company that just added 10 new trucks to its tractor-trailer fleet. The problem has been hiring people to drive them.

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Trucking executive to speak in Layton on Monday

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 11:42pm

LAYTON -- Weber State's Executive Lecture Series on Monday will present Jack Magdiel, president and CEO of Right Way Trucking.

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Computer upgrade monitored by state at Transportation Alliance Bank

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 9:09pm

OGDEN -- The state is monitoring issues with a computer upgrade at Ogden-based Transportation Alliance Bank that has prevented numerous truckers from using debit cards and accessing account information.

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Trucks on federal highways could soon be heavier

Gordon Dickson Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:52am

Drivers could share the highways with much heavier trucks if Congress decides that the efficiencies of larger loads trump concerns about road damage and safety.

The Safe and Efficient Transportation Act would raise the maximum weight for commercial trucks that routinely travel on highways to 97,000 pounds in most states.

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One California man has died as a result of a crash involving at least 25 vehicles Saturday morning on westbound Interstate 84 near Mountain Green. The accident began when a double-tanker carrying butane gas jack-knifed on a bridge because of icy conditions. Two semis hit that truck, then at least 22 more vehicles, including another semi, hit the first three semis. The man who died was a truck driver who stepped out of his vehicle onto a jersey barrier, then slipped and fell 50 feet onto railroad tracks, officials say. (Courtesy of the Utah Highway Patrol)

Huge crash kills one, closes I-84

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 7:06am

MOUNTAIN GREEN — Utah Highway Patrol expects to have a busy time reconstructing and investigating a massive Saturday morning accident involving 24 vehicles.

The accidents on westbound Interstate 84, beginning at Mile Marker 90, critically injured three people and led to one man accidentally slipping off a bridge to his death.

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Utah to Arizona: Don’t toll Interstate 15

Richard Simon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:41pm

WASHINGTON — A proposed toll on a 30-mile stretch of Interstate 15 in Arizona is drawing opposition from Utah.

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) DeLora Fowers drives a truck alongside son Brett Fowers as he fills the back with onions in Hooper recently. DeLora, 75, says she’s glad to be able to keep busy helping her family with their farms by hauling their produce to market.

Hooper woman, 75, hauling family produce going on 60 years

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 11:37pm

HOOPER -- Some people look upon onions and work in much the same light, believing they are irritating. But at 75, Hooper resident DeLora Fowers doesn't look down on either one. Just when most people are slowing down, DeLora stays as busy as ever on the job.

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(Associated Press file photo) The World Trade Center towers burn and one starts to fall on September 11, 2001.

Impacts of 9/11 far-reaching -- and local

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 12:35am

OGDEN -- All Utahns go through intense security at the airport because of the terrorist attacks 10 years ago Sunday, but how many know:

Why one museum's volunteers had to have background checks before they could show visitors the displays?

Why there are so many Saudi students in Utah and so few Iranians?

Why the books you check out at the library could still get you in trouble?

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Cedar City resident is state champion truck driver

Press release Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 9:30am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Jeff Payne, of Cedar City, was named the best professional truck driver in Utah after winning the twin trailers competition and receiving the highest overall score in the nine competing categories at the 2011 Utah Truck Driving Championships. The annual event is sponsored by Utah Trucking Association.

Payne, who drives for Reddaway, now qualifies to compete in the American Trucking Associations' National Truck Driving Championships Aug. 9-13, 2011 in Orlando, Fla. - also known as the "Super Bowl of Safety." The winners from each of the eight other categories are also eligible to compete in the national championship.

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Pleasant View council approves heavy truck route

Terrie L. Stephenson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 12:20pm

PLEASANT VIEW -- City council members approved a commercial heavy truck route that will use Elberta Drive and Pleasant View Drive and head trucks west on their route out of the city to U.S. 89.

Council members struggled a bit with how to handle local deliveries such as the delivery of furniture. The ordinance now states local deliveries by truck should take the most reasonable route available in Pleasant View and into an adjacent city.

"For that matter, if their destination point is their shop in Harrisvillle, they could take the most direct route to their shop," said City Administrator J.J. Allen.

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$(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) A train hit a truck in North Salt Lake on Monday, tipping over the second empty trailer the truck was hauling. Only one person was injured in the crash — a refinery worker was taken to an area hospital with a compound leg fracture, officials say. The railroad tracks are marked only by a crossing sign. The investigation into the accident is continuing.$

Train-truck collision causes traffic delays in North Salt Lake

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 11:45pm

NORTH SALT LAKE — Police are investigating why a semi-truck driver did not yield to a train Monday morning at a railroad crossing at 232 W. Center St.

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Jose Martinez removes a tube from a gas tank after filling it with propane at Mountain States LP Gas Company on Thursday in Ogden.

Niche bank in Ogden serves truckers, businesses only

Scott Schwebke, Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, June 24, 2011 - 4:44pm

OGDEN -- Transportation Alliance Bank doesn't have tellers or an ornate lobby at its Ogden headquarters, but it has quietly carved out a unique national niche by providing working capital and equipment financing to the trucking industry and other businesses.

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Syracuse man headed to prison for stealing $1.3M from employer

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 3:36pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A former Utah trucking company comptroller will spend more than two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1.3 million from his employer.

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