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...
Trucking Accidents
Crash Avoidance Technology Can Prevent Deadly Trucking Crashes
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...
Why are Large Truck Crashes on the Rise?
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...
Big rig accidents happen for many reasons
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...
Federal Officials Fail to Protect Public from Fatigued Drivers
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...
Deadly Truck Underride Crashes Continue to Occur
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that half of the fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles involve underride accidents where the top half of the car is sheared off. Airbags and safety harnesses provide no protection in underride...
Unsafe Truck Driving in Winter Weather
Every winter, many people are severely injured or killed by commercial semi-truck drivers who violate the law by driving in adverse weather conditions. It takes longer to stop and is more difficult to turn without skidding when the road is slippery. If the road is...
Truck Platooning Can Be Unsafe
Truck platooning is an aerodynamic approach to cut fuel consumption by reducing wind resistance. Two big-rig trucks speed down the freeway only 30-50 feet apart leaving no real gap between them with the lead truck in control. The reduction in aerodynamic drag of...
Asleep At The Wheel
TRUCK DRIVER fatigue is a factor in one-third of all truck crashes, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A survey of long-haul truck drivers reported that 66 percent of drivers acknowledged experiencing fatigue on at least half of their trips....