Truck Drivers and Blind Spots
One of the challenges of driving any vehicle is seeing the areas close to your vehicle. Modern cars and trucks have rear-view and side-view mirrors and technologies like backup cameras to help ensure drivers avoid[…]
Truck accidents kill thousands of people in the US each year. Thousands more suffer life-altering injuries when they are harmed in accidents with these massive vehicles.
One of the challenges of driving any vehicle is seeing the areas close to your vehicle. Modern cars and trucks have rear-view and side-view mirrors and technologies like backup cameras to help ensure drivers avoid[…]
Side Impact Truck Accidents No two truck collisions are the same. One factor that differentiates collisions is how the collision occurred. Some collisions involve rear-end impacts, others head-on, still others involve rollovers. One particularly dangerous[…]
The trucking industry moves 71 percent of all freight in America. Approximately 25 percent of those trucks are tanker trucks hauling harmless products such as fruit juice, but the rest might haul dangerous contents, including[…]
As the lifeblood of American commerce, trucking companies transport 71 percent of all our freight and are responsible for nearly 6 percent of all full-time jobs. All this work requires a lot of trucks—15.5 million[…]
Whether we realize it or not, we all depend on commercial trucks. Large semis and big-rigs are essential to our economy, as they deliver goods our growing population needs and depends on. In addition, the[…]
When your car won’t start or is otherwise disabled, a tow truck can help you out of a really unpleasant situation. However, these same helpful tow trucks may also cause serious accidents that result in[…]
Both dump trucks and garbage trucks work to keep communities functioning. However, these trucks are also very large, heavy commercial vehicles that pose inherent dangers to other drivers. This is especially true when the operators[…]
Truck accidents can result in some of the most severe injuries a person can sustain from a motor vehicle. Truck rollovers in particular have high fatality rates. If you suffer injuries in a truck rollover[…]
While semi-trucks remain vital to the transport of all kinds of goods across the country, they also create a considerable accident risk to other people on the roadways. In 2017, nearly 5,000 accidents involving semi-trucks[…]