A common reason for commercial truck crashes is equipment failure, with brake failure standing apart as the leading cause of mechanically related truck accidents. The Large Truck Causation Study (LTCCS), issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), included data collected on fatal commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crashes over a period of several years. [...]
At least eight vehicles – four of them tractor-trailers – are involved in a DeKalb County crash that has shut down all lanes of I-285 North. AJC.com reports “the [WSB-TV 2] Traffic Center helicopter saw someone being extricated from a vehicle and put onto a stretcher.” According to WSB’s latest update, “NewsChopper 2 over the [...]
The race to get autonomous vehicles on the road has been heating up over the past several years. Of particular interest is how autonomous vehicles may shape the future of the trucking and freight industry. Truck fleet owners, drivers and industry experts are keeping a close eye on the latest self-driving technologies and are amazed [...]
When there's been an accident involving a tractor trailer or a heavy truck, there's often multiple theories of liability that can be pursued. The first is against the driver of the tractor trailer or truck, if they did something inappropriately. Perhaps they were driving carelessly or following too closely, or they were driving and [...]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) reports that a typical big rig truck has a weight 20 to 30 times greater than the typical passenger vehicle. A truck of this size and weight, fully loaded, and traveling at a typical, safe highway speed in normal weather conditions requires nearly two football fields to come [...]
Trucking companies are responsible for using various types of safety training to prepare new drivers for the dangers they might experience on the road, as well as update veteran drivers on safety procedures. Training can come in any format—like classroom or computer-based—but some companies like UPS and Linde North America are starting to use virtual [...]
According to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, federal agencies are underreporting the number of car accidents resulting from fatigued drivers. Only 1 to 2 percent of vehicle collisions are reported by the government as resulting from drowsy driving. However, AAA estimates that number may be 8 to 9 times higher – [...]
The reason why it's important to hire a lawyer that's experienced in trucking and tractor-trailer cases is because those cases are not like your average everyday personal injury case. They're not like a car wreck case. You have trucks that are many, many times bigger than cars, and there are a number of federal regulations, [...]
We believe very strongly that you need a lawyer to handle a trucking tractor trailer case. When I say a lawyer, a qualified lawyer who's had experience handling those types of cases. If there's not proper legal counsel, then you won't be able to gather the correct evidence, you won't be able to preserve the [...]
The reason why it's important to hire a lawyer quickly in a trucking or tractor trailer case is because most trucking companies have quick response teams. They are ready to go 24 hours a day. If there's a collision with a tractor trailer in the middle of the night, the first call they make before [...]
