Category: Truck Accidents

Fatigued driving can be as bad as drunk driving. In many ways, it’s as simple as that. The risk of causing motor vehicle accidents escalates inescapably when a driver has not had enough sleep. That’s why federal regulators have worked so hard to put realistic hours-of-service limitations in place for truck drivers. And it’s why…Read More

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the agency that creates regulations that affect the trucking industry. When the amount of fatalities caused by significant trucking accidents started to remain stagnant, the agency developed a new plan called CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) that was designed to reduce the number of deaths caused by these crashes….Read More

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the agency in charge of creating new regulations for trucking companies and their drivers. The agency has long been concerned with the further reduction of deaths caused by trucking accidents, and every trucking accident that occurs throughout the country is extensively studied in an effort to understand what…Read More

The trucking industry is one occupation that has a backlog of open positions to fill, and not enough applicants to fill all of the available positions. Experienced drivers will generally have their choice of where they want to work. With new rules being placed on truck drivers and trucking companies by the Federal Motor Carrier…Read More

New research suggests more truck drivers are going out on their own instead of working for a new company. For other drivers on the road in the Charlotte and Rock Hill areas of North Carolina, that could mean the added risk of being involved in trucking accidents. Federal safety data reveals that carrier registrations have…Read More