Every day, port trucking companies around Los Angeles put hundreds of impaired drivers on the road, pushing them to work with...
Category: Trucking
Allstate Denies Uninsured Motorist Claim for Impaled Driver
Holly Dunn was on her commute to work near the Fort Worth Stockyards. She was driving north on I35W when an 11-pound piece of metal ricocheted through her windshield. The police investigation concluded the metal piece that shot through Holly’s windshield was a leaf spring that likely came loose from a semi-truck...
Fracking & Hydraulic Drilling Have Brought a Spike in Fatal Trucking Accidents in Texas
For six decades, highway deaths have dropped steadily all across the US, but in Texas all motor vehicle fatalities - and accidents involving commercial trucks - have turned back upward since the state's oil drilling and fracking boom began in 2008. In fact, consistently since then, Texas has led all states in...
Truck accidents surge: Why no national outcry?
Fatal truck accidents like the one that killed Dan Lindner's family are all too common—happening nearly 11 times every single day in this country on average, and killing nearly 4,000 people each year, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
On top of that, more than 100,000 people...