“A trucker hauling an overweight and oversize load was stranded in Baltimore for 17 hours on Wednesday, Oct. 3, along with the drivers of his two escort vehicles.” … “By the time the 240,000-pound flatbed reached the Interstate 695 interchange on I-95, the Baltimore Police Department officers who were supposed to take over the escort had given up and gone elsewhere.”

“Rush-hour traffic began early Tuesday afternoon when a truck carrying an oversize load wedged itself in the metal beams across the Bay Bridge, plugging up all eastbound traffic on Interstate 80.”

“For 10 days now, a sagging house parked on the freeway’s northbound shoulder in the Cahuenga Pass has had people gawking — and talking.”