Nearly two dozen cows were killed when a tractor-trailer overturned on the State Route 840 on-ramp, entering Interstate 65, in Peytonsville Tuesday morning.

84 cows were aboard the trailer when the rig overturned at about 2 a.m.

Some escaped and officials had to round them up into a make-shirt corral, set up beside the overturned truck.

The cleanup extended until late Tuesday morning.

Traffic was slowed to a crawl for the morning commute, partly from drivers who couldn’t resist the urge to slow down and see the roadside rodeo.

Around Mars Hill, N.C., truckers keep up a steady chatter of warnings on the CB about the weather, traffic, and “bears” – police – looking for overweight loads.

Even with 200 state truck inspectors out on the roads, some local-run truckers in Florida routinely overload their trailers and dump trucks, to make up for hard-to-find manpower and the $3.20 they pay for each gallon of diesel. In Pennsylvania, citizens complain about roads sagging and bridges groaning under the pressure from overweight trucks dodging interstate weigh stations.

The trial of a truck driver involved in a 2003 fatal tollway crash is in its second day.

Vincente Zepeda (vihn-SEHN’-tay zuh-PAY’-duh) of Chicago faces charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of 8 members of a women’s club.

The women were returning from an outing to a Japanese gardens when their small tour bus was struck from behind by Zepeda’s semi.

Survivors described the crash yesterday in McHenry County court. Bus driver Kenneth Lipski testified traffic had slowed to 15 miles per hour at an Interstate 90 toll plaza when Zepeda’s truck approached at perhaps 50 miles per hour.

A tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed and exploded Thursday afternoon on Interstate 35E in Lake Dallas, killing the driver and shutting down the highway in both directions between Lewisville and Denton.

Two men inside the truck were burned in the accident, and one of them later died.

Texas state troopers said the truck was northbound shortly before 2 p.m. when the driver abruptly hit the brakes and lost control, clipping a car and striking a median barrier. The truck overturned across the median and burst into flames.

A witness said the driver was engulfed in flames when he jumped out of the truck.

A roadside bomb exploded Sunday near a gas station in northern Baghdad, wounding three civilians, police said.

The blast went off, as people were lining up to buy fuel at the start of the work week here.

About half an hour earlier, another roadside bomb struck an American military patrol in a northeastern section of the Iraqi capital, police said. A US humvee caught fire, but there was no word on any casualties, police said.

Iraqi police also said US helicopter gunships bombed a truck in eastern Baghdad around 8 a.m. The truck had apparently been carrying a rocket launcher, they said.

Police have named a Mid-Canterbury woman who was killed when her car collided with a milk tanker this morning.

Margaret Anne Taylor, 50, of Mayfield, died at the scene of the crash at an intersection 17km west of Ashburton about 6.55am.

Senior Sergeant Arnold Kelly of Ashburton police said Ms Taylor, known as Anne, was the only occupant of her Nissan Primera car.

Mr Kelly said the police commercial vehicle investigation unit was investigating.

A tractor trailer leaves the Broome County Landfill heads north on Knapp Road, when all of a sudden, the driver loses control at the sharp turn.

“It appears to have rolled over one time, at this time the cause can be due to high speed, unsafe speed,” said Sgt. John Lynch of the NY State Police in Kirkwood.

Moments later, crews arrive on scene, working fast to free the driver trapped inside.

“Because the roof was crushed down on the cab of the truck, we wound up cutting the post on the top of the roof and then we folded the roof on down of the road and used that to basically extricate the patient. He was pinned between the floor and the roof of the truck,” said Gary Smith, the Glen Aubrey Fire Chief.

Police in Biddeford are on the lookout for the culprit who stole a heating oil truck and removed more than 500 gallons of the pricey fuel.

Deputy Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said the truck was filled with 2,800 gallons of oil when it was reported stolen Monday morning from a Dead River County parking lot.

The truck was recovered that afternoon in a residential neighborhood several miles away. But by that time, 530 gallons were gone.

For some Black Friday shoppers at the Mall of Georgia, crowded stores were not their only complaint.

Gwinnett County Police Corporal Illana Spellman said shoppers called police to complain about a man driving a truck displaying gory images outside of the mall.

“A man was driving a paneled truck that had some graphic photos of aborted fetuses,” said Spellman.

She said a Gwinnett County officer gave the driver of the truck the option to display other anti-abortion banners without the photos.

Hundreds of workers were late to the office early Tuesday after a tanker truck carrying gasoline took a sharp turn and rolled over.

The crash happened at 27th Avenue between McDowell and Thomas roads overnight, shutting down 27th Avenue for nearly 8 hours while fire crews mopped up the hazardous spill.

The truck was carrying 7,500 gallons of diesel fuel.

Five hundred gallons spilled onto the roadway and some made its way into the city’s storm drains.