A 64 year old truck driver received minor injuries Wednesday morning after his rig overturned on Cookeville Highway near the intersection with Floating Mill Road.
Trooper Chris Delong of the Tennessee Highway Patrol told WJLE that Robert Huff of Chestnut Mound was traveling south in a 2015 International Tractor Trailer truck when his load shifted and overturned as he was trying to negotiate a curve. The crash damaged a guardrail.
Huff was hauling graphite for Tennessee Contract Carriers enroute to Federal Mogul.
Members of the DeKalb Sheriff’s Department and DeKalb Volunteer Fire Department responded along with DeKalb EMS.
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