Category Archives: Truck Accident
Commercial Truck Accidents Have Many Potential Defendants
Commercial truck accidents generally involve significantly more damage than car accidents. A typical commercial truck, when full of cargo, weighs more than thirty times as much as an average car.…
NHTSA Newsletter Provides Safety Tips for Sharing Road with Large Trucks
Nearly 4,000 Americans die every year in accidents involving large commercial trucks, the vast majority of whom are the occupants of other vehicles. In a recent Safety in Numbers newsletter…
FMCSA Redefines “High-Risk” Carrier after Rebuke from NTSB
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently announced that a deadly truck accident was the result of driver fatigue and a high-risk motor carrier’s deficient safety procedures. The NTSB criticized the…
Commercial Truck No-Zones
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) created the "Share the Road" Program to educate the driving public about how to safely share the road with trucks and buses. One…
Electronic Logging Devices Required for Commercial Truck Drivers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently adopted a Final Rule requiring the use of electronic logging devices (ELD) instead of hand-recorded on-duty/off-duty logs for commercial truck drivers (https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/FMCSA-ELD-Final-Rule_12-10-2015.pdf).…
Highway Bill Lowers Minimum Age for Interstate Truckers
A $305 billion highway bill passed by Congress in December lowered the minimum age for interstate commercial truck drivers from 21 to 18, but only for veterans and current military…
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