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The company alleged in the suit that the figure was drawn from manifests signed by its jeweler customers ahead of the tractor-trailer’s departure from San Mateo.

By doing the reduction work close to the disaster site, debris that initially filled three or four dump trucks can be consolidated into one large semi tractor-trailer load.

A few years later, in June 2014, Morgan was involved in a five-vehicle crash with a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike.

To avoid him, the driver swerved the other way, clipping the bumper of another car and then careening across all lanes of the freeway until the vehicle hit a tractor-trailer.

Officers in that case also seized the tractor-trailer and narcotics and turned the driver, a 34-year-old man, over to Homeland Security.