OAKLAND — At the same time Caltrans was receiving the hefty steel anchor rods that would later snap on the new Bay Bridge, the agency appeared to have growing concerns about the integrity of some high ...

At least two agencies have been investigating Caltrans' Foundation Testing Branch - whose technician, Duane Wiles, falsified bridge tests - for financial fraud. In a recent interview, Robert Pieplow, ...

Facing allegations in a recent Sacramento Bee story that there were serious flaws in foundation testing that threatened the safety and integrity of the new east span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans ...

WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Dodge Ram truck crashed into a guardrail, just as Caltrans engineers planned. At a cost of $250,000, the crash at this West Sacramento test track would be an expensive ride ...

Caltrans engineers ordered tests in 2008 that might have revealed problems with the bolts that ultimately snapped on the Bay Bridge eastern-span project, but those tests were never done after the ...