How Many Hours can a Truck Driver Drive – A Guide

Safety on our Roadways: Service Hour Guidelines for Truck Drivers Every day we share crowded highways with work commuters, e-commerce deliverers, ride-share drivers, school and metro bus drivers and large commercial truck drivers, among others.  Motorists use these roadways for a multitude of purposes. Yet if they have anything in common, it is to arrive at their destination without incident.  Safety affects everyone on the road. Among the more potentially dangerous vehicles are large trucks. By definition, a large truck is defined as having a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 10,000 pounds.  Weighing as much as four or more times the average car, large trucks are also vastly longer and wider.  When a truck of this size

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How Do Truck Accident Lawsuits Work

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Incredible log truck collision left a professional chef with a broken jaw

Benji is a professional chef, and he is passionate about his calling. He and his wife worked hard to purchase a piece of property outside of Longview, Washington. They were making plans to build a there home for themselves and their young son. In an instant, everything changed. Surviving a log truck collision On a rainy summer afternoon, Benji was driving out to inspect his property. A logging truck driver was at a stop sign on Abernathy Creek road. He started to turn left onto State Route 4, and then stopped about several feet into the west-bound lane—right in front of Benji’s car. As the truck started to turn and stop in front of him, Benji tried to avoid the

Top 10 types of truck crashes — and why they happen

We help people who are hurt or killed in truck crashes, and these are some of the most common types of crashes that we see. A head-on crash occurs when a driver moves into oncoming traffic, creating an unavoidable collision with the front of the vehicle. Example: A semi-truck driver tries to pass another vehicle on a two-lane highway, and strikes an oncoming vehicle head-on. A driver loses control, and the truck slides and rolls over onto its side. A rollover can also be the result of an equipment or infrastructure failure. Example: A tractor-trailer driver hauling a heavy load is cut off by another driver just as the roadway starts to curve: the speed, weight, and high center of gravity

How to choose the best lawyer for a truck crash case

Interviewing lawyers for a truck crash case? It’s complicated. First, you should know that truck is just a faster way of saying commercial motor vehicle. Truck crash cases are the result of crashes with semi-trucks, garbage trucks, flatbeds, heavy equipment—vehicles a driver needs a special license to operate. To find the best lawyer for your case, it helps to understand that distinction. Recommended Article: Amazon DSP Program Questions to ask the lawyer Can I talk to you about my (brother/mother/cousin/friend)’s truck crash case? When you or someone was just in a bad car accident with a semi-truck*,  it can help to have a clear-eyed friend or practical family member get some information. We often talk to close relatives who are helping

Investigating a fatal truck crash at Snoqualmie Pass

In dark hours of an early winter morning, truckers are eager to miss rush hour traffic as they are headed out on their routes. Dispatchers advised that a winter weather advisory was expected. The temperature hovered right around freezing on the east side of the Snoqualmie Pass. It was just before 5 a.m. when a dump truck and trailer carrying treated sewage hits a patch of ice. The trucker had set his cruise control at 62 mph. He was attempting to merge from the right to the center lane, and lost control of the truck. He overcorrected his steering, swerving back across the highway. He hit a concrete barrier, and the truck and trailer tipped over on the passenger side,

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