How No-Fault Insurance Applies to New Jersey Trucking Accidents In 2017, deaths from truck crashes reached their highest level in 29 years. Of the more than 37,000 people who died in motor vehicle crashes in 2017, nearly 5,000 were involved in truck accidents. These accidents left many victims and their families to deal with no-fault…
Semitruck Blind Spots: Why Avoiding Blind Spots Is Important Collisions involving large trucks are much likelier to result in serious injuries or fatalities than other types of accidents. Data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, shows that 116,000 injury and 4,889 fatality accidents involving large trucks were reported to law enforcement in…
Dispatcher Expectations: How Profit Motives Affect Driver Safety Roughly 15 million commercial trucks will transport more than 70% of the nation’s freight this year. With so many large trucks on the road, fleet owners and drivers must take precautions to limit fatal accidents. Unfortunately, the role of the dispatcher is often overlooked when considering factors…
Common Mechanical Problems That Cause Truck Accidents in New Jersey As winter approaches, truck drivers across New Jersey should have their vehicles inspected for mechanical issues. According to statistics from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, just under 6% of fatal large truck crashes in 2017 were due to mechanical issues. A truck driver who…
How Truck Driver Delivery Expectations Lead to Risks A typical commercial truck driver will travel between 2,000 and 3,000 miles per week. Since the trucking delivery pressures can be extremely intense, many drivers will make judgment errors to meet expectations. If too many things go wrong at the same time, the combination of events is…
A Complete Guide to Truck Accidents Approximately 70 percent of the goods that are transported across the country are brought to us by trucks, so these huge vehicles on our roads that everyone likes to disparage are highly useful to all of us. Unfortunately, when collisions occur between trucks and motor vehicles, they have devastating…
Trucking Carrier Liability When Companies Claim Drivers Are Independent Contractors When truckers are involved in roadway accidents in New Jersey, the trucking carriers often try to avoid employer liability by claiming their drivers are independent contractors and passing the responisibility to independent truck driver liability. An estimated 85% of the truck drivers who serve the…
New Jersey Motorists Face More Winter Driving Truck Accident Risks This Winter Between 2007 and 2016, weather-related crashes comprised 21% of all vehicle accidents and 16% of accident fatalities across the United States. Overall, slushy and icy pavement cumulatively made up about 30% of the weather-related crashes. To plan a safer winter driving strategy, New…
The Dangers of Driving on the Highways With Large Trucks You’ll find 15.5 million large trucks driving along the roads and highways each day in the United States. With so many trucks out there, some tractor-trailers are bound to be involved in accidents. Specifically, one person is injured or killed in a collision with a…
