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Subscribe to RSSTwo tornadoes touched down south of Dallas catapulting 18-wheelers across the area. Aerials from KXAS.
A tornado that struck a national trucking company's south Dallas hub Tuesday sent huge trailers flying hundreds of feet into the air and caused “massive” damage, company officials said.
Schneider National was still accounting for all employees at its operations center, the Green Bay, Wis.-based company said in a statement.
Reuters
Damaged trucks and trailers are seen at the Schneider National trucking hub after a tornado past through the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Tuesday.
The company’s main building did not sustain major damage, the firm said.
Television video showed a tornado tossing Schneider’s distinctive orange trucks into the sky and slamming back to the ground.
The company-operated truck stop has fueling stations as well as truck maintenance bays, showers, laundry facilities, exercise equipment and cafeteria services, Janet Bonkowski told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
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About 65 office and maintenance people work at the center, about 10 miles south of downtown Dallas, but 200 to 300 drivers are in and out each day, the company said.
There were 254 tractors and 204 trailers in the truck yard when the tornado hit, the company said.
Trailers typically are 53 feet long and weigh about 13,500 pounds empty, officials told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
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hope ya'll are ok.. TX
That must have been one very strong tornado to pick up those trailers and throw them around like that. Amazing to see the power of mother nature taking something that weighs close to 7 tons and throwing it around like a childs toy.
Typical MSN reporting,,the reporter is snickering and almost laughing that 18 wheelers are being thrown into the air! What about the people that may have been in those trucks? People wake up!
Where is the slightest evidence that anyone found this FUNNY?
It looks like you have a big mouth to go with that bigfoot. If you don't like the reporting just stfu and crawl over to your like minded farts at the Faux news site.
@bigfoot9 -- you will probably never see this, but the reporter is not MSN -- she is local chopper reporter in DFW. Trust me, she wasn't snickering, she was shocked and scared. What would you sound like if you were in her place? (Probably would have to bleep it out) I'm amazed she was able to be that professional, but that's her job. What's yours?
I hope no one was hurt, but as far as Schneider hub being hit, Karma is all I have to say to that.
My husband worked there 14 years, with a million miles and NO accidents or tickets (takes years to get that); they even had a banquet for him. His truck fell over due to the loading of people who loaded it and they fired him. He could not find another job because NO one would insure him in their truck, he was a perfect driver, never even got a ticket for the accident, cops understood it was NOT his fault. He committed suicide, it was bad. I blame Schneider and always will.
It's not just Schneider. I was once a trucker and most companies fire an employee who has an accident. As you mentioned, It's the insurance companies who determine this: if they won't insure you, you can't drive. JB Hunt is reputed to be even worse about dumping a driver. Understand why you feel betrayed.
My brother works at DFW - golf ball sized hail damaged many planes. It'll be a long night for everyone waiting to get flights rescheduled but no reported injuries at least makes this a major inconvenience, not tragedy.
Mother Nature humbles all of us again.
Prayers and strength for all for the recovery work to come in the year ahead.
There we go ... lots of debris = shovel ready jobs.
that's not funny ; give it a rest son , and M O R O N I will bless you.
I was right in the middle of it and the storms danced around me like lawyers do the truth. nothing exciting ever happens to me :(
You must be disappointed to be able to post online and not be wondering what you will do cause yor house was just destroyed. I bet those people would gladly trade what they are going through cause they all missed you
The heart wants what the heart wants.
I sincerely hope that the insurance companies won't hassle their insurers re: claims.
I work for Schneider. They better hope the insurance adjuster isn't familiar with us because I hate to break to you but most of our equipment was in worse shape before the tornado hit.
Tp see a 6.5 ton trailer flying through the air like a paper bar shows how powerful a tornado can be. I always thought they were stong and distructive but goes way beyond powerful. Hope there were no one hurt. Mother Nature must be really ticked off.
Lots of injuries, some really bad, others just bruised and bounced around but no deaths as of this AM. In the midst of all of this chaos and devastation one of the Emergency Management coordinators was heard of the radio net saying - "Glad it didn't go further south to the fertilizer plants. Then the s%$@ would really have hit the fan." I guess some people handle stress with badly timed humor but then these guys were out there all night and are still on sites throughout four counties, searching rubble, helping put people's lives back together.
My wife and I used to drive for Schneider, we are praying a prayer of thanks that nobody was killed.
relatives in that area