Our Minnesota roads see their fair share of accidents, and commercial trucks are involved in many of them. Adding a heavy truck into the mix with smaller passenger vehicles tends to make the injuries incurred by all parties more serious. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Truck Accidents
Should I Provide The Insurance Company With A Statement Following A Truck Accident?
Driving is safer today than it ever was in the past. However, it is still very dangerous. The Florida Department of Transportation (MnDOT) reports that an accident takes place in the state about once per minute. Fortunately, many of these … Continue reading
Liability For Improper Cargo Loading Accidents
Trucks can pose a serious threat to our roads’ safety in Georgia. Falling cargo is one of the major concerns. Whenever a truck loses either an entire or partial load, it can cause very dangerous situations for other drivers on … Continue reading
Do I Need To Release My Medical Records After Sustaining Injuries From A Truck Accident?
Truck accidents are in most cases very serious and can result in extremely severe injuries. It is very common that the owner’s insurance provider or the driver of the truck will try to make contact with you after the accident. … Continue reading
Do I Need To Have A Quick Response Team Following A Truck Accident?
Serious accidents involving trucks occur quite often. There are a fair amount of big rigs out on the roads in the Texas area. When you are in an accident involving a truck, it can be really scary. After a big-rig … Continue reading
Do I Need a Trucking Attorney?
After been involved in any type of truck accident, you might be wondering whether you really need the assistance of a California truck wreck lawyer. The truth of the matter is, and as any lawyer will tell you, it all … Continue reading
Why are Truck Tire Blowouts Dangerous?
If you take a look at a large semi-truck, you’ll notice that it has many more tires than a regular passenger car. It is easy to assume that the additional tires help to avoid problems in the event that one … Continue reading
Side Underride Deaths Could be Eliminated
Cars have to share the road with huge commercial trucks, and those giants of the road pose an obvious danger. Given the amount of traffic and the number of tractor-trailers on the road, accidents are inevitable. But there are some … Continue reading
Will Driverless Trucks Improve Safety?
Late in 2016, the first driverless commercial-truck carrying 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer tooled down Colorado?s Interstate 25.1 What could go wrong In fact, this rollout was the brainchild of Otto a startup autonomous-truck business recently purchased by Uber and … Continue reading
Truck Drivers Must Conduct a Pre-Trip Inspection
Pre-trip inspections for all commercial truck drivers are mandated by the Code of Federal Regulations1+ (CFR). These mandatory inspections, however, are widely considered to be one of the most ignored safety rules in the trucking industry. Tractor trailers are behemoths … Continue reading