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Trucking Accidents
How dangerous are trucks?
Sharing the road with 18-wheelers can be downright scary. Yet, not all fears are rational. Should you be scared of trucks when driving or not? The National Safety Council’s 2020 truck crash statistics can help determine the answer. They found just under 5,000 people...
Do you need to cast blame beyond the driver in a truck crash?
If a truck crashes into you, and you are sure you did nothing wrong, then it must be the truck driver’s fault, right? Yes and no. Sometimes other people contributed to the crash. Ones who were not there when it happened. Only around 11% of truck drivers are...
Truck drivers get distracted, too: Here’s how
When a truck driver is on the road, your hope is that they’re paying attention and are prepared to safely reach their destination. You expect that they are well-rested and that they don’t have distractions that are keeping them from doing their job well....
How common is truck driver fatigue?
When you start yawning while driving, you probably know that it is time to head home or pull to the side of the road to rest. However, due to a wide variety of factors, truck drivers may not pull off the road when they become fatigued or drowsy. How common is driver...
Regulators cite mixed bag of results re large-truck accidents, safety
How might readers best assess the following accident data concerning America’s large and diverse commercial trucking fleet? On the one hand, deaths nationally linked to roadway crashes involving one or more commercial trucks did not increase last year from...
Should collision warning systems be fast tracked for large trucks?
The writing is clearly on the wall, apparent for all to see.More accurately, its bottom line is prevalent in a study recently released by the research organization Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Here’s the key takeaway in IIHS findings regarding the...
Will this behind-the-wheel trucking change promote or hinder safety?
Many of our readers in Louisiana and elsewhere have likely heard the term "hours of service" (HOS) in reference to the commercial trucking industry.Its thrust is quite simple and premised on public safety. Truck drivers across the country were at one time unburdened...
Fatal truck crashes buck accident trend, rising again during 2019
Roadway accidents involving large trucks in Louisiana and nationally are simply different from crashes featuring smaller passenger vehicles.That’s obvious, right? An 18-wheel rig, tractor trailer or other commercial truck commands dimensions that flatly dwarf...
Trucking safety convention stalls due to viral pandemic
There is no lack of consensus across America’s sprawling commercial trucking industry that something needs to be done to curb accidents involving big rigs and materially promote the public’s safety.Conversely, though that same degree of aligned thinking...