Category Archives: Trucking Accidents
What Damages Can You Recover for if You…
Accidents involving a passenger car and a commercial truck (semi-trucks or 18-wheeler) are more likely to result in death or serious injury than are accidents between two passenger cars. But the ones who are most likely to suffer serious injury or death are not the…
What Makes Trucking Accidents So Dangerous?
Accidents between passenger cars and big commercial vehicles like 18-wheelers, tractor-trailers, or semis, are often fatal—to the people riding in the car. But why? What makes commercial truck accidents so dangerous? In short, it’s because the differences between passenger cars and big rigs make the…
The Importance of Trucking Logbooks
When two passenger cars get into an accident, things are generally pretty straight-forward. The parties exchange information, the police are called and make a report, pictures are taken, and the names and addresses of any witnesses are taken down. All of this later is used…
3 Things That Can Cause A Commercial Truck…
We share the road with commercial trucks every day. Our national economy relies on commercial trucking and truck drivers. But there’s no getting away from the fact that big rigs can be dangerous. A crash between a passenger car and an 80,0000-ton truck can mean…
Airplanes Have Them and So Do Commercial Trucks.…
In the (thankfully) rare instances when an airplane crashes, airline companies and the federal government need information to find out what went wrong, to prevent it from happening again. They do this by means of a “flight recorder” also known as a “black box.”(Why this…
Mechanical Issues are Huge When it Comes to…
When it comes to legal investigations following a commercial trucking accident, most people look to the truck driver or the trucking company for negligence. For example, did the trucking company encourage drivers to drive over the required number of hours? Did they hire untrained drivers?…
How Trucking Companies Contribute to Truck Accidents.
When it comes to motor vehicle accidents and the issue of negligence, we generally think that it is the driver of the vehicle that is responsible whenever there is a crash. And for many car accidents, that may indeed be the case. But when it…
Just in an Accident With a Big Rig?…
Getting into an accident with any kind of vehicle is upsetting. But if you are in an accident with an 18-wheeler or commercial truck that can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds, you won’t just be upset—you just might come unglued. Big rigs wreak enormous…
Factors That Affect The Value Of Your Spinal…
Money can never make up for the pain and trauma of a spinal cord injury. But it can help defray some of the burdensome expenses victims and their families must bear when an accident results in catastrophic injuries to a loved one. The purpose of…
Evidence and Trucking Accidents. Why It’s So Important.
Just a few years ago (in 2015), Louisiana reportedly had 5,460 trucking companies in the state. It is said that over 78% of the local communities in Louisiana rely on trucks to transport their goods. Given that many trucks on the roads and the difficult…
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