Trucking

An Oregon union says the victims of one of the state's deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest. The driver of the semitruck that struck the van was arrested Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, DUI and other charges.

Short-haul truck drivers are calling for an equitable share of Washington state's climate funding to help them transition from diesel to electric engines. Advocates say it would make a big dent in pollution and improve people's health.

As many as 30 or 40 percent of the short-haul truckers who normally move containers from docks to railcar terminals at the Port of Seattle have stopped…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-980598.mp3The next time you head down the interstate, that truck in the lane next to…