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Hot Shots: Fiery truck crash, sizable snow, huge hail and more

Photo montage of a plane being deiced and someone holding a large hailstone.

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features a fiery two-truck crash in Atlanta, record-size hail in Australia, South Dakota snow and more.

Log jam

A tractor-trailer fire shut down all lanes of Interstate 285 southbound near the Atlanta airport all day Thursday. WSB-TV reported that the accident happened at the Washington Road exit around 7:45 a.m. ET. The crash involved two...

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Most dazzling fall foliage spots for truckers

Tractor-trailer on a highway surrounded by fall foliage.

Fall officially began Wednesday afternoon in the continental U.S., ushering in the season of football, fun and foliage. For truckers on the road, it’s a chance to enjoy the beauty of the leaves changing colors across the country. In a FreightWaves Twitter survey, this is how they ranked the following four places that feature some of the best fall foliage in the country.

Great Smoky Mountains

Truckers said the Great Smoky Mountains straddling the Tennessee-North Carolina border is the best place...

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