Crashes involving large commercial trucks are different than crashes involving passenger vehicle accidents. Commercial truck accidents often involve catastrophic injuries, many times fatal ones.
One reason for this difference is because of the...
Do You Need a Truck Accident Attorney?
According to statistics from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the number of fatal commercial truck accidents that occur each year is just under 5,000 and that number continues to increase. Thousands of more victims are...
Inadequate Driver Training and Virginia Truck Accidents
Commercial truck drivers are required to go through extensive training courses in order to earn a commercial driver’s license (CDL), which they need to have to drive commercial vehicles. But each year, almost 5,000 people are killed in...
Shocking Results of Study: 30K Commercial Truck Drivers Would Fail Drug Testing
Over the past several years, the number of commercial truck accidents has continued to increase. There is serious concern about whether or not drug use among truck drivers is one of the causes of these increases. A recent survey conducted by the...
Avoiding Truck Accidents
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), there are more than 13 million large trucks and buses on the nation’s roads. Statistics also reveal that these numbers continue to increase every year. Although more trucks...
The Serious Issue of Fatigued Driving for Commercial Truck Drivers
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), there are more than 4,000 people killed in this country every single year in commercial trucking accidents. Tragically, this number increases each year as commerce continues to...
Common Injuries Caused by Truck Accidents
The massive force behind the impact of a trucking accident is much more deadly than crashes with passenger vehicles. The injuries sustained in crashes with commercial trucks are often catastrophic and are responsible for more than 4,500 deaths...
DOT Announces FMCSA Audit on Truck Driver Medical Certification Process
Citing a spike in fatal truck accidents, the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General is conducting an audit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) medical certificate program. According to national statistics,...
Inadequate Truck Driver Training and Truck Accidents
Huge commercial trucks are everywhere, whether you are traveling the highways or driving through Main Street in your home time. Handling these massive vehicles take training and experience – just look at the way a truck driver needs to handle...
Truck Accidents Caused by Speeding: Catastrophic and Fatal
Over the past several years, there has been an increase each year in the number of fatal truck accidents that occur. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), one of the most critical reasons for this increase is due to rising...