While it is true that 95 percent of professional drivers are men, there are nearly 200, 000 female big rig drivers in the United States.
Amanda Goodman was ejected from the SUV she was riding in after the driver lost control and struck an oncoming big rig, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Carino Vanorden, 24, was at the wheel Wednesday night when a trailer hauling crushed cars broke free of the big rig that was pulling it, cut across a rural, two-lane road and slammed into the minivan, his mother Kate Vanorden of Fayetteville said.
Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.
Japanese truck drivers, in fact, have been mobile-phone trendsetters, relying on the phones to call headquarters instead of searching for big-rig parking spaces next to public telephones.
Meanwhile, five big-rig trucks roar up to the back of the building in the space of just 15 minutes, as employees load them up with unmarked brown boxes.
Surely the most underappreciated number in the Ram spec sheet is its 0.36 coefficient of drag, given that the 2013 Ram's grille is larger, higher and more bluff than before, recalling the big-rig aesthetics of the mid-1990s.
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It's the largest such rig in the UK. The big idea is to simulate in real time and at full size the stresses which high speed trains inflict on their tracks.
But the cost will be steep: Wal-Mart's customers aren't the kind of big spenders who will splash out for a high-margin gaming rig.
Congress could do families a big favor just by repealing an antitrust exemption that lets schools with need-blind admissions rig prices.
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