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We Can Help Identify the Cause of Your Crash Commercial trucks like big rigs, 18-wheelers, construction vehicles, semi-trucks, and tractor-trailers are a common sight on our roads and highways, and the role they play in transporting goods is vital to… Read More

When a truck and a car collide, the vehicle occupants are the more likely of the two to be injured or killed. Semi-trucks and tractor trailers are 20-30 times heavier than a passenger vehicle. When a vehicle that size collides with a passenger car, t… Read More

Before discussing compensation for a trucking accident, it’s important to recognize that a collision with a semi-truck or other commercial vehicle is very different from a crash with a car, motorcycle, or pickup truck. First, after an accident, tim… Read More

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has mobile phone restrictions and tough rules for distracted driving, cell phone use and prohibitions of text messaging while driving. The fines and penalties for violators of the rule are serio… Read More

Last December, Business Insider reported that truck drivers transport 80 percent of cargo. To haul all of those goods from one part of the country to another, the industry employs 3.5 million drivers who work an average of 70 hours before getting a d… Read More

American Trucking Associations (ATA) has said, “The trucking industry is the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Over 70% of all the freight tonnage moved in the U.S. goes on trucks. Without the industry and our truck drivers, the economy would come to… Read More

Last March, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Analysis Division released its annual “Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts” report on commercial truck accident statistics for 2014. Below you�… Read More

Nationwide, 35,000 people died and more than 2.4 million suffered injuries in auto accidents in 2015. In the first six months of 2016, traffic deaths increased by more than 10%. According to the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administrati… Read More