North Carolina motorists who have been stuck in traffic because of a truck accident up the road may appreciate that the number of trucks involved in fatal accidents around the country went down by 5 percent in 2014 from the previous year. The statistic was part of a...
Authorities in North Carolina have reported that an accident involving a semi-tractor trailer on Interstate 85 claimed the lives of two people during the early morning hours of April 6. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Sugar Creek Road at approximately 4:30...
A weary truck driver has the potential to wreak havoc on a North Carolina highway. Accidents caused by fatigued drivers can be some of the most serious because there is little or no time to respond or correct course for a driver who has dozed off. The size of a semi...
Steps designed to ensure that the drivers of buses and trucks are qualified and adequately trained could save many lives, and road users in North Carolina rely on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish the amount and type of training that must be...
Commercial truck accidents are different from accidents between two cars. Not only do the people involved in truck accidents tend to suffer more serious injuries but these accidents are also treated differently under the law. That is because there are many rules and...
Finding even a little bit of humor in truck accidents is not something that happens very often. Those with experience in dealing with trying to recover compensation for victims who have suffered catastrophic injuries tend to be focused most on protecting victims'...
It may well be said that, as a group, truck drivers are among the safest on the roads of North Carolina. They and their employers are expected to meet a higher legal standard of training and oversight than average drivers do. The reasons for this are obvious....
A tractor-trailer full of cabbages overturned on a highway in the Northeast late last month. No one was seriously hurt, thank goodness. But the matter opened the door to some jokes about how a crash with a truck carrying mayonnaise could have made for a record-setting...
On any given day, the issue of truck safety may not be a front-page headline in North Carolina. But you can be sure that it won't be long before the topic comes back around. Federal regulators responsible for motoring safety raise their concerns regularly, as we have...
The day of the drone-delivered product from Amazon appears to be somewhere over the horizon, if not the rainbow. That doesn't mean that the flow of packages to consumer doorsteps is likely to decline. E-commerce continues to be a growing segment of the economy. As a...