Category Archives: Truck Accidents

Couple sues truck driver and employer after truck accident

Truck accidents have the ability to cause serious injuries and harm to truck accident victims. A couple has brought a claim, following a truck accident, in Texas against a truck driver and the truck driver’s employer for negligence. The couple asserts in their lawsuit that they suffered injuries in the truck accident between their vehicle […]

FMCSA seeks better way to enforce trucking safety laws

There is little debate about the fact that trucking is essential to maintaining the American way of life. We rely on trucks to transport nearly everything we eat and most of the consumer products we buy. Unfortunately, we pay a steep price for our reliance on trucks. For much of the last century, truck accidents […]

Pursuing damage claims relating to a semi truck crash

Semi truck drivers and the transportation companies that employ them are held to a higher standard of care and must to adhere to a lot of different rules and regulations. The consequences of a big rig smashing into a compact car are far greater than a compact car crashing into another small vehicle — so […]

NTSB report may offer closure for some in deadly NCTC bus tragedy

The book can hardly be said to be shut regarding the truck-bus accident that killed four members of the North Central Texas College softball team. But it may be closer to being closed following a recent report by the National Transportation Safety Board. Readers may recall that we posted about this tragedy back in July. […]

Pity truckers for all the safety rules they face? Um, no

If you read some of the publications for the trucking industry, you will find there is a definite contingent of over-the-road haulers out there that feels they are among the great oppressed. Some of them are in Texas. Many of these men and women feel that they are victims of onerous government regulation that prevents […]

Report reveals incredible violation rate for trucks, drivers

If you were to be asked “how many truck and truck drivers wouldn’t pass a basic inspection, thus rendering them ‘out-of-service,’ during a massive month-long event?,” what would be your answer? Would you say a very small percentage, like, say, two or three percent? Or would you go with a loftier number, like 10 percent? […]

Texas couple’s ‘contagious love’ bound to be missed, mourned

There is no hint of anger or apparent desire to exact retribution on the part of the loved ones of a San Antonio husband and wife whose lives were taken away suddenly last month. Instead, there is a clear sense from comments made to KABB-TV that the family is confident that neither that couple, nor […]

Driver fatigue largely to blame in Tracy Morgan crash

The verdict is in from the National Transportation Safety Board about the cause of the deadly truck crash last year that killed one person and left actor-comedian Tracy Morgan critically injured. It’s a story we suspect many in Texas are aware of. Morgan and six others were riding in a limousine van in June 2014 […]

Questions linger over crash that killed 4 NCTC softball players

September 26, 2014, proved to be a fateful day for the North Central Texas College women’s softball team. Four members of the team died that day in Oklahoma when a tractor-trailer truck sideswiped the bus they were riding in. The team was on its way home after playing a scrimmage game in Bethany, headed south […]

‘Mushy middle’ on liability might stall self-driving trucks

Some weeks ago we took a look at how a proposal for putting speed governors on semitrailer trucks is sparking mixed reactions. Safety proponents say the limiters would rein in truckers who push tires beyond their design limits into the danger zone. They say the move would make roads safer for everyone. Advocates for truck […]