Truck drivers spend long hours driving on the nation’s roads and days away from their families. Spending all this time behind the wheel of these huge vehicles can be stressful enough, now add the loneliness from being away from your family and...
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...
PA Court Refuses to Cut Trucker’s Prison Sentence for Fatal Crash
A repeat DUI driver failed to convince a Pennsylvania state appeals court that he should not serve his five to 10 year prison sentence for causing a fatal DUI wreck while driving a commerical box truck.
Rather, the Superior Court judge this...
South Carolina Box Truck Driver Charged with Felony DUI
The driver of a box truck in a deadly North Charleston, South Carolina crash on Feb. 10 has been charged with felony DUI.
The box truck driver was driving on I-26 near Charleston that morning when the box truck ran off the road and slammed into...
Tractor Trailer Driver Dies in DUI Crash
A driver collided with a tractor trailer in Lakeland, Mississippi, seriously injuring himself and the trucker, who later died from his injuries.
The crash happened in November 2015, but it was only this week that the Mississippi police...
Truck Driver Killed by Suspected Drunk Driver in Connecticut
A tractor trailer driver from Woodbury CT died Sept. 28 when his rig was struck by a suspected drunk driver on I-95 south near Wesport CT. The driver of the other vehicle has been arrested on a charge of DUI.
The truck driver, Thomas P....
North Carolina Man Faces Felony Death Charges in I-85 Wreck
A man from Graham NC is facing a charge of felony death by motor vehicle and other charges after a fatal wreck on I-85 in North Carolina that closed the interstate for five hours on Tuesday evening.
The...
Georgia Missionary Killed By Runaway Big Rig
By Randy Appleton, Virginia Truck Accident Attorney
A truck driver in Emerson, Georgia has been charged with DUI and vehicular homicide stemming from his truck rolling onto a highway and killing a local missionary.
The...