How the trucking industry is responding to deadly Los Angeles wildfires

Deadly wildfires across Los Angeles razed entire neighborhoods, closed highways and forced mass evacuations this week, disrupting trucking operations and all other non-emergency activity in the affected areas.

The death toll had reached 10 as of Friday, and around 9,000 structures were swallowed by five separate out-of-control blazes driven by the Santa Ana winds, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Even before the fires broke out, the California Trucking Association was sharing alerts about the potential for truck rollovers caused by the high winds, CEO Eric Sauer to…