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Driving on the highway can feel like navigating a complex puzzle, especially when sharing the road with large semi-trucks. Their sheer size and the challenges they present demand respect and caution. Being aware of their unique limitations and understanding how to...
Truck accidents cause more serious damage and injury than crashes involving smaller vehicles. The size and weight of these large trucks mean they can completely crush other vehicles. Because of the severity of wrecks involving large trucks, you may assume they have...
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...