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Truckers working in California and across the United States play an important role in the nation’s economy, but the large, heavy vehicles they drive also pose a threat to public safety. Commercial trucks are larger and heavier than passenger vehicles, meaning trucks...
Ideally, you will be able to successfully avoid any kind of collision when driving. Even low-speed crashes involving a vehicle the same size as your own could lead to major injuries or serious damage to the vehicles involved. When you experience a crash with a much...
Semi-truck drivers provide essential services, ensuring that goods make it out to consumer retailers. When a crash between a big rig and a car occurs, the truck driver faces the highest scrutiny. A significant number of fatal accidents involve large trucks, such as...
Truck drivers too often park their trailers in the road or on the shoulder close to roads.This creates deadly hazards for night time drivers. There are no lights on these trucks or trailers to warn the public of their presence close to the road and sometimes in the...
The Deadly ProblemTruck crashes continue to be a major hazard for motorists. In 2016 there were 475,000 crashes involving large trucks. There were 12 fatal large truck crashes per million people in the U.S., an increase from 10.6 in 2010. Large truck crashes cause one...
The most common causes of large truck accidents are driving too fast for road conditions, straying from the lane of travel, failure to keep a proper lookout, following too closely, driver fatigue, mechanical defects, tire blowouts and shifting cargo caused by...
As one of our California readers, living in a state where traveling on the roads is, arguably, the mainstay of transportation and commutation, we know that you may have some fears about driving in close proximity to large commercial trucks. These big rigs don't always...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) are abandoning planned regulations that require testing for fatigue-inducing disorders for truck drivers and train engineers. Safety experts say that millions of...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that half of the fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles involve underride accidents where the top half of the car is sheared off. Airbags and safety harnesses provide no protection in underride...
Every winter, many people are severely injured or killed by commercial semi-truck drivers who violate the law by driving in adverse weather conditions. It takes longer to stop and is more difficult to turn without skidding when the road is slippery. If the road is...