An area truck driver is dead after his gasoline tanker rig collides with a dump truck near Nashville.

The victim has been identified as 21-year-old Robert Love of Park City, Ky. Love worked for Franklin-based Key Oil Company and was taking a load of fuel to Gallatin, Tenn., for delivery.

Hendersonville, Tenn., police said it appears Loves tractor trailer ran into the back of a dual-axle dump truck. Both vehicles were destroyed by the fire, which closed Vietnam Veterans Boulevard for hours.

The dump truck driver survived the crash.