Overweight trucks damage infrastructure
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More than a half-million overweight trucks are allowed onto the nation's roads and bridges &#151; an increasingly routine practice that some officials say is putting dangerous wear and tear on an already groaning infrastructure.
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The Philippine government deployed trucks and vans to carry thousands of stranded commuters to work as bus and jeepney drivers went on strike to protest rising fuel prices, crippling Manila and other parts of the country.
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Forklift leads to unplanned downtime Say what you will about cooling issues, disgruntled admins and memory failures. There are times when it's the guys in shipping that cause the most harm to a data center.â¦
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Heavy trucks belch black smoke and lines of buses battle through a virtually gridlocked sea of cars inching beneath a haze of exhaust fumes.
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At least five people were injured on Saturday after an expressway overpass collapsed in a Montreal suburb, and others could be trapped underneath a tangle of concrete debris, emergency officials said.
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For some drivers, even a Hummer may not be enough. At a curb weight of more than 3.5 tons, the Humvee-inspired Hummer H1 is no skinny guy who gets sand kicked in his face. But the Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck, a dressed-up military vehicle more than twice as heavy, is being billed as bigger, badder and more bodacious.
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Politics: 20 November 2004, Saturday. A new TIR-truck incident occurred Saturday morning on the Pernik - Malo Buchino - Goliamo Buchino - Sofia road in Bulgaria.
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Politics: 13 November 2004, Saturday. Public anger against the traffic of heavy trucks spread on Saturday from Sofia suburban district of Knyazhevo to the town of Pernik and the village of Malo Buchino.
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Torrential rain and gale force winds hit road and rail travel and create the risk of more floods.
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PENDLETON, Ind. - A semitrailer carrying large drums of glue spilled part of its load onto a state highway Tuesday, causing the road to be closed for about three hours as crews worked to resolve the sticky situation.  Police officers diverted traffic off Indiana 67 and 38 and U.S.
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ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. -- They arrived in late August on a flatbed truck from Missouri. The three long, arcing, silvery shapes were rough to the touch, their sheen buried under a mottled layer of crusted, cooled steel.
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On the last Friday of every month, the city's abundant yellow cabs, buses and delivery trucks are briefly forced to yield to a phalanx of bicycles &#151; a gridlock of pedals and handlebars known as Critical Mass.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A truck driver distracted by his digital music player tipped his semitrailer on Thursday, spilling about 40 tons of cow intestines onto a major highway in eastern Wisconsin.
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Acute electricity shortages across a swath of China after winter blizzards disrupted coal deliveries have exposed the fragility of transport networks.
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A new combat truck with a V-shaped bottom designed to withstand blasts from roadside bombs is performing with such success in Iraq that the U.S. military is pressing a Wisconsin company and others to churn out hundreds more in the coming months.
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Federal transportation officials say drastic changes are needed before funding, dealing a devastating blow to $5 billion project.
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Heavy suitcases aren't the only things weighing down airplanes and requiring them to burn more fuel, pushing up the cost of flights. A new government study reveals that airlines increasingly have to worry more about the weight of their passengers.