Trucker Deaths from CO Poisoning??

6. Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - October 26, 2006 Ind. driver, 45, found dead at Olive Branch truck stop A 45-year-old Indiana truck driver was found dead in the cab of his truck at the Flying J Travel Plaza in Olive Branch Wednesday morning.Police identified him Wednesday afternoon as Kevin Cox, 45, of Rochester, Ind."There was no sign of foul play or injury, but an autopsy has been ordered," said Maj. Don Gammage, chief of detectives for the Olive Branch Police Department.He said the truck, owned by Denton LLC of Rochester, Ind., pulled onto the Flying J...

11. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - May 28, 2006 Missing truck found in Georgia; driver dead A North Carolina truck driver missing nearly a week since he set out with an 18-wheeler full of frozen groceries was found dead Saturday near Eatonton, just 25 miles short of his destination, after his truck veered off the road into thick woods."We're not sure what happened, but we think he may have fallen asleep at the wheel, or had a heart attack," said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.The truck, marked with the red Ingles Markets logo, was...Purchase Complete Article, of 283 words

12. Valley Times-News, The (Lanett, AL) - August 15, 2001 Truck driver found dead at welcome center LANETT -- A truck driver was found dead Tuesday afternoon at the Alabama Welcome Center on I-85.Fifty-seven-year-old Larry E Lemmon of Ringgold, Ga. reportedly stopped at the center late Monday night. Last seen by his wife earlier that same day, he was transporting goods to the Wal-Mart distribution center outside of Opelika.Lemmon was scheduled to be at the distribution center at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday. When he failed to show, the trucking company he worked for became...

16. Jefferson City News-Tribune (MO) - May 8, 2006 Truck driver found dead MATTHEWS, Mo. (AP) - A truck driver found dead inside the cab of his tractor-trailer at a truck stop in southeast Missouri apparently died of natural causes, authorities said. Another truck driver passing through the Matthews, Mo., area made the discovery at the Flying J truck stop off of Interstate 55 over the weekend.Foul play was not suspected. Coroner Jimmy McSpadden said an autopsy was planned.McSpadden said no one had spoken with the man since April 27, but it wasn't...Purchase Complete Article, of 89 words

28. York News-Times (NE) - January 28, 2005 Truck driver found dead, Officials continue to investigate case YORK -- The York County Attorney/Coroner's Office and the York County Sheriff's Department continue to investigate the death of a truck driver, who was found at the Henderson interchange early Thursday morning.According to the sheriff's department, Bobby West, 64, of Sebree, Ken., was found dead in his semi truck, which was parked at the truckstop at the I-80 interchange there. Initial observations, they said, indicated that he likely died of natural...

33. Bladen Journal (Elizabethtown, NC) - December 6, 2002 Monroe man dies on N.C. 41 A truck driver was found dead of a heart attack in his turkey truck Wednesday around 5 a.m. The truck was found in a ditch at the White Lake Baptist Church on N.C. 41. Bladen County Coroner Hubert Kinlaw said the driver, Richard Grenburiz of Wingate, suffered a heart attack while returning to Monroe.Grenburiz drove for Circle S Ranch, a poultry contractor that regularly transports birds through White Lake to a processor in Duplin County.Kinlaw said Grenburiz had told a co-worker he...

Missing tractor, trailer, contractor found
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Feb. 26, 2007) — A Warren Transport missing tractor and trailer, driven by an independent contractor and the subject of an intense search between Connecticut and Eaton, Ohio, were found over the weekend at a New York rest stop.
Warren officials reported that the driver was found dead inside the cab. The officials said the driver died of natural causes.
"Our thanks to everyone who helped us get this alert out," Bryan Molinaro-Blonigan of Warren Transport said in an e-mail. "We did receive calls from a number of people with possible leads. Unfortunately the driver had passed away of apparent natural causes and was found at a rest area in New York in his truck. Again our heartfelt thanks."
— The Trucker News Service

7. Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News - January 31, 2007 Woman missing from Yuma found dead in Iowa Jan. 31 An Oklahoma truck driver who had been reported missing at 9:30 p.m. Saturday was found dead Tuesday morning in a semi trailer at a warehouse in Chariton, Iowa. Sheila Kay Ross, 47, of McLoud, Okla., was discovered around 6 a.m. by a dock worker unloading Dole lettuce from a semi trailer at the Hy-Vee grocery store distribution center. Ross was last seen Saturday by her husband exiting their semi truck at the Dole plant, 3725 S. Avenue 3E, to go to an office for paperwork, according to a...

25. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (TX) - November 25, 2006 Third body found at Texas truck stop SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Police were investigating the death of a truck driver at the same truck stop where two people were found dead earlier this month. A friend found the body of Byron Gonzales inside his big rig Thursday morning, the Bexar County medical examiner's office said. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.Gonzales, 42, was from California.On Nov. 1, fellow truckers found the bodies of Michelle McLean and Harry Edward Ackroyd inside the cab of an 18-wheeler parked at...

Truck driver found dead in his vehicle.
From: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN) Date: July 29, 2006
Jul. 29--OWATONNA -- Police on Friday discovered the body of a truck driver in his vehicle after the trucking company reported the man missing.
Owatonna police received a 911 call shortly before 1 p.m. from McCarley Moving & Storage of Columbus, Ga., asking for help locating one of the company's drivers, according to a release from the police department. The driver failed to show up at that morning in north Minneapolis as scheduled. The driver's last known location was in Owatonna.