Truck drivers have always been an essential part of the American supply chain. However, as more people turn to online shopping, shipping, and package delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, trucking has become more important than ever. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao recently stated that truck drivers are “doing a heroic…
Category: Trucking Accidents Blog
Did you know that many causes of truck accidents can be traced to the negligent upkeep and maintenance of the commercial motor vehicle? For this reason, safety experts urge truck drivers and trucking companies to always inspect their vehicles before and after trips, make repairs when necessary, and ensure their…
Every year, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) organizes Brake Safety Week with the goal of preventing crashes caused by faulty brake systems on commercial trucks. During the week, the CVSA inspects the brakes of trucks in the United States and Canada. It pulls trucks out of service if they…
Two people were injured recently in a wrong-way crash on a stretch of I-40 in Oklahoma City. Authorities received a call warning of a driver of a truck who was heading westbound in the eastbound lanes of I-40, according to KFOR Oklahoma. The driver of the truck sideswiped a BMW…
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report to Congressional Requesters entitled “Truck Underride Guards Improved Data Collection, Inspections and Research Needed.” The report found that an average of about 219 fatalities from underride crashes involving large trucks were recorded annually from 2008 to 2017. It also…
An accident with an 18-wheeler is often a life-changing event. If you are lucky, your injuries heal over time, but a large number of 18-wheeler accident injuries result in long-term or permanent disability, reducing or eliminating the ability of victims to earn a living or even care for themselves and…
Attorney Monty L. Cain of Cain Law Office recently won an interlocutory appeal in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma that will allow trucking companies to be held liable in separate, distinct legal claims when both their employee’s negligence and their own negligence contributes to trucking accidents. The case is Fox…
Technology that could prevent or reduce the severity of 30,000 truck accidents per year is readily available. Still, you won’t find it in most tractor-trailers on the road in Oklahoma and throughout the country, according to consumer safety advocates. In a recent report, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) states that…
Nothing is more dangerous than a large tractor-trailer colliding with a passenger car on the highway. As Oklahoma Department of Public Safety statistics show, between 2012 and 2016, on average, 497 drivers of large trucks were involved in fatal and injury-producing truck wrecks on our state’s roads each year. The…
An accident that involves a large commercial truck is different from a crash that involves two passenger cars. The size of the truck is the main reason for this difference. A tractor-trailer loaded with cargo may weigh as much as 20 times more than an average passenger car. At impact,…