Accidents Due to Truck Driver Fatigue Prompt New Rules
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed reducing the allowable driving time for interstate truckers from 11 hours in each 14-hour shift to 10 hours.
August 31, 2011
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Top Ten Safe Summer Driving Tips From Commercial Truck Drivers
Maintaining a constant speed can reduce fuel costs by 30 percent and give you more time to react to changing road conditions and mistakes by other motorists.
July 1, 2011
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Tractor Trailer Backs Up, Kills Driver, in Suffolk Virginia
One person was killed in a truck crash on South Quay Road in Suffolk, Virginia. A pick-up truck hit a tractor trailer who was blocking the road. To learn more, check out this article: About the Editors: Shapiro, Cooper Lewis & Appleton is a law firm which focuses on injury and accident law and [...]
August 30, 2010
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Tractor Trailer Hits and Kills Driver on Side of Road in Hickory, North Carolina
My colleage Rick Shapiro recently wrote about the dangers of breaking down on the side of the interstate. Find out how to stay safe. About the Editors: Shapiro, Cooper Lewis & Appleton is a law firm which focuses on injury and accident law and our attorneys have experience handling truck accident cases. Check out [...]
August 30, 2010
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Hours-of-Service Regulation for Truck Drivers Commonly Neglected
By John Cooper, Virginia Truck Accident Lawyer An important provision in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act limits the hours truck drivers can operate a commercial tractor trailer, 18-wheeler, big rig, etc. The purpose of the law is to help reduce the number of truck accidents that stem from tired and/or fatigued truck drivers. Our [...]
March 16, 2010
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Truckers Support Current Hours of Service, but Request More Flexibility
By John Cooper, Attorney Various trucking organizations, including the American Trucking Association (ATA) went before the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to address the issue the driver fatigue and the current Hours of Service (HOS) rules. The rules stipulate that a trucker has the option to drive 11 hours and then take 10 hours [...]
January 25, 2010
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Careful Truckers Suffer Injuries Too
By Richard N. Shapiro, Attorney Some people envision truck accidents as a trucker on the rampage recklessly dominating a Virginia (VA) roadway like I-264 or I-64 and slamming into small cars or mid-size SUVs. However, many truckers exercise safe driving practices and are actually the victims of reckless driving on the part of car and SUV operators, [...]
January 21, 2010
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Trucks Need to Watch Out for “Brake”down
By Richard N. Shapiro, Attorney Poorly adjusted brakes are one of the leading causes for major commercial truck wrecks in the United States. Our firm recently blogged about a trucker getting seriously injured after their brakes failed on U.S. Highway 52.Unfortunately, the trucking industry doesn’t appear to take this safety issue seriously since defective brakes were the [...]
January 16, 2010
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Defective Tires Can Lead to Serious Truck Wrecks
By Richard Shapiro Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, & Appleton There were nearly 370,000 18-wheeler, tractor-trailer, and Mack truck accidents in 2006, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. One of the reasons these large truck accidents occur is because of defective tires. The sheer size of these trucks puts extra pressure on the tires so they [...]
December 30, 2009
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Truck Blind Spots a Major Safety Concern
By Rick Shapiro Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, & Appleton Some drivers mistakenly believe truckers have better vision while on the road because they’re high off the ground. In actuality, trucks possess major blind spots which present a real challenge to the drivers when they’re traveling on congested highways like Interstate 64 (I-64) and Interstate 264 (I-264). The [...]
December 13, 2009
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