Truck brokers are a critical part of how the transportation industry works across the United States, and are responsible for ensuring the truck drivers they hire are safe to drive. However, when their trucks get into accidents, they can be difficult to hold accountable for their role in the crash. So how, exactly, can truck [...]
If you have been a victim of a truck accident in Tennessee and have survived, you will be wondering how to obtain compensation if either the truck driver or the truck company (or both) was to blame for the accident. Few truck accidents leave smaller vehicles intact without damage and the occupants of the vehicle [...]
Truck accidents are more likely to cause horrific injuries and fatalities than any other type of accident in Tennessee. It’s not that truck drivers are any worse drivers than any other road user. It’s just that the vehicles they drive are so much heavier and larger in size than any other vehicles on the road. [...]
Tennessee doesn’t have the worst truck accident injury statistics, but that’s nothing to celebrate. Every truck accident is potentially tragic for drivers, occupants and their families. Truck accidents may be fewer in number than auto accidents, but that’s just because there are far more cars on the road than trucks. Truck accidents are by far [...]
There is an inverse relationship between a truck driver shortage and the number of truck accidents. Currently, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), there is a national shortage of around 60,000 truck drivers. This shortage is also experienced here in Tennessee. Although it’s hard to prove directly that a shortage of drivers causes more [...]
Multiple people were hurt after a Greyhound bus bound for Nashville was involved in a crash with multiple commercial vehicles on southbound Interstate 65 on Tuesday, January 16, 2017. The crash happened at about 8:40a.m. on Tuesday morning just south of Elizabethtown, KY. Officials with the Kentucky State Police said the collision involved the bus, [...]
There are understandable reasons why trucking companies can see advantages in bigger trucks. In real practical terms, this means longer trailers. Longer trailers mean that more goods can be carried by each truck, which should translate into higher productivity and greater profits. That makes sense, but what are the disadvantages? Are longer trailers inherently more [...]
Every time there is a truck accident involving hazardous material, it’s not just the lives of the truck driver and other motorists at stake. Some material carried by trucks could potentially seriously injure any residents of households or even school children if the accident happened close to a residential neighborhood. The situation in Tennessee appears [...]
An accident involving a tractor trailer truck is always serious, they are the largest and heaviest vehicles on our roads. Even single vehicle accidents involving just the truck can be deadly for the driver. One of the reasons that trucks are so dangerous are post accident fires caused by leaking fuel tanks. Truck drivers are [...]
On April 10, 2014, a tour bus full of high school students were on their way to tour college campuses when a FedEx truck pulling a double trailer crossed over the median and hit them head on. One of the students said he saw the trailers "skewed at a weird angle" before the truck hit them. [...]
