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The term "truck accidents" is by no means synonymous with large semi-trailers or 18-wheelers. To be sure, big rigs are responsible for many accidents -- and, because of the sheer size of the trucks involved, those accidents are often very serious or even fatal. There...
When most of us think of truck accidents, we think of big rigs. After all, the image of an 18-wheeler jackknifing or otherwise going out of control, putting others on the road at risk, is a vivid one. And big trucks do cause thousands of accidents with serious...
Intersections are the front lines of traffic safety. It's all too easy, gliding along out on the interstate, to forget this fundamental fact. But last week, a terrible truck accident at an intersection in southern Texas served as a vivid reminder of the tragic...
A few years ago, the folk singer Lucinda Williams titled an album "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road." The gravel road was meant to evoke rural ambience - the freedom associated with driving in open spaces. But from the perspective of 2013, the phrase has a new resonance....
Like it or not, as a society the U.S. is becoming more familiar with the causes and effects of brain injuries. There are several reasons for this. For starters, thousands of military service veterans have come home from Iraq, Afghanistan or other deployments with...
Let's pick up the threads of the discussion we began in part one of this post on dueling proposals in Congress on truck weight limits. One proposal is SETA, for Safe and Efficient Transportation Act. The other is SHIPA, for Safe Highways and Infrastructure Act. What...
It's already been a month since we last posted on the subject of weight limits for trucks. In our June 13 post, we noted that some trucking industry interests want Congress to raise the limits to 97,000 pounds on six axles. The issue remains in play. Formally, the...
We don't often write in this blog about the type of cargo truckers carry. Instead, we focus mainly on factors such as fatigue and distraction that can affect driver performance and result in truck accidents. In many areas of the country, however, there is a relatively...
When people are passed by a semi-truck, they often have a slight feeling of anxiety. These large vehicles can sometimes cause very severe accidents, and when put up against a car, the smaller vehicle will likely suffer the most damage, and its occupants may have...
Electronic truck records are coming. In fact, for many companies they are already here. After all, it isn't necessary for trucking companies to wait for a mandatory federal rule to make the transition from paper logs to electronic records. But in the San Antonio area...
