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Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an 11-meter-wide (35 ft), 100-meter-long (330 ft) track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthest.
A Monroe County man was killed Thursday, Nov. 14, after a four-vehicle crash that involved two tractor-trailers on Interstate 81 in East Hanover Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police ...
PROSPERITY, WV (WVNS) — An accident involving two tractor trailers delayed traffic on I-77 northbound in Raleigh County. According to members of West Virginia Turnpike Dispatch, an accident ...
February 24 – India – A tractor pulling a wagon loaded with Hindu pilgrims overturned and fell into a pond in Kasganj District, Uttar Pradesh, killing 23 people and injuring nine. [ 501 ] February 24 – Mexico – A tractor-trailer and a pick-up truck collided in San Luis Potosi , killing 10 people.
June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred 7 mi (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people.
The 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision was a head-on collision involving a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, Tennessee, that occurred near the town of Bean Station on the morning of May 13, 1972. [2] [3]
On June 20, 1953, No. 611 was pulling The Cavalier when it struck a bakery truck at a railroad crossing in Chattaroy, West Virginia, injuring the truck driver. [ 30 ] Four days later on June 24, 1953, No. 611 was pulling the Powhatan Arrow train No. 26 when it ran into the end of a tractor-trailer truck at a crossing near Ironton, Ohio, denting ...
One system with limited success was a device that mechanically limited the angle which a trailer could swing. A much more successful system was to fit the tractor with anti-lock brakes. Fitted originally to airplanes in the 1950s, anti-lock brakes have significantly reduced the number of heavy-vehicle accidents.