If you own a company and will be hiring a temporary truck driver or truck driving service to fill holiday orders, taking a few extra precautions can help ensure that you prevent any accidents that could cost you money and could cause personal injury: 1) Recruit carefully. You can place…
A new federal initiative aims to reduce trucking accidents and make the roads safer for everyone by, among other things, gathering additional information about truck drivers. The aim is to ensure that fewer truck accidents claim lives and that fewer accidents cause burn injuries, spinal cord injuries, head trauma, and…
Trucking accidents cause many fatalities each year as well as serious personal injuries, including spinal cord injuries, burns, brain trauma, and other serious injuries. Many people can help prevent these accidents. Drivers of passenger vehicles can use extra caution when passing or driving around trucks, recognizing that trucks require more…
Trucking accidents involving commercial trucks and passenger vehicles tend to end in tragedy. The two vehicles are simply unevenly matched. A large commercial truck can easily crush a small passenger car, causing fatalities or serious personal injury for everyone inside. According to Road Safe America, however, there are several things…
The federal government has many rules and regulations governing the driving of 18-wheeler trucks on the road. All states also have their own laws and regulations regarding these trucks. These large trucks are essential for businesses and transport, but due to their size, they can cause a great deal of…
The National Transportation Safety Board and other investigators from other agencies are citing sleep apnea as a contributing factor or even chief factor in a number of transportation truck accidents. Trucking accidents, bus accidents, train accidents, boating accidents, aviation accidents, and other accidents have all been linked to the disorder.…
The OSHA reports that an estimated 95,000 workers are in industrial truck accidents or incidents. These accidents result in everything from burn injuries to head trauma to spinal cord injuries and fatalities. Worse, not all employees are correctly insured to ensure that medical costs resulting from these accidents are fully…
Workplace accidents are always a tragedy, but they can be especially dangerous when they involve trucks. Many workplaces require employees to operate or work near trucks, and if safety measures are not adhered to scrupulously, dangerous trucking accidents can occur. Truck rollovers can easily occur when safety procedures are not…
All trucking accidents have the potential to be devastating. Even accidents involving smaller delivery vans can result in fatalities, brain trauma, burn injuries, spinal cord injuries, and other serious personal injuries. However, some trucks, by their very nature, are far more dangerous in a collision. For example, tanker trucks carry…
Unfortunately, many trucking accidents result not only in serious personal injuries, such as spinal cord injuries or head trauma, but also tend to result in fatalities. Due to the size and weight of most commercial trucks, they can easily crush passenger cars or pedestrians. Many people simply do not survive…