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How Many Accidents are Caused by Semi-Trucks?
Trucking Accident Facts and Statistics Of the more than 272 million vehicles registered across the U.S., nearly 2.9 million are commercial tractor-trailers and Around 500,000 trucking accidents occur each year in the United States, with about 5,000 per year resulting in death. We see semi-trucks on the highways every day, and we often hear about […]
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Mayor Announces “Austin Don’t Rush” To Help Ease Traffic
“Austin Don’t Rush” program. Austin Mayor Steve Adler recently announced a new initiative called “Austin Don’t Rush” to help combat traffic congestion and called for Monday, May 11th to be the first public holiday to kick off this initiative. With a decade-long boom in population growth, transportation in Austin is now at a tipping point […]
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Gravel Truck Plows Through Intersection, Flies Off Overpass
Recently, a video of a dump truck driving through an Austin intersection and causing an accident involving 4 other vehicles has gone viral. The dash cam video shows the moment when a dump truck, carrying a load of gravel to a location on Jester Boulevard on RM 2222, runs an intersection striking several vehicles, runs […]
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Intermodal Containers in Semi Truck Collisions
The term “Intermodal” refers to using two or more means of transporting large containers of freight. These shipping containers are filled at the beginning of their journey and are unpacked once they reach their final destination. These are the containers you see bolted to rail cars or truck trailers being transported across the country or […]
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Heavier 18 Wheelers Could Be Coming to Texas
As road fatalities decrease across the country, they continue to increase here in Texas. Texas currently leads the nation in accidents involving large trucks due to the increase in gas drilling throughout the state. Large trucks and commercial vehicles have crowded our roadways and things could be getting worse. Thanks to proposed national legislation, 18 […]
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Autonomous Trucks Cleared To Drive on US Roads
Freightliner’s new line of autonomous trucks, the Inspiration, recently received approval to drive on US highways in Nevada, and the Peterbilt line of driverless diesels will soon join them. The new autonomous trucks are designed to make the roads safer and may be making their way to Texas soon.
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The Different Types of Truck Accidents
Truck accidents occur often on highways and hazardous roads. It is hard to predict a collision, so it is important to know and be aware of your surroundings, especially where there are often large trucks on the roads. Factors of Truck Accidents Factors like the weather and the time of the day may increase the chances […]
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Fatal Truck Accidents on the Rise in Texas
In an era where there are so many semi trucks, tractor-trailers and big rigs plying the highways of Texas, accidents involving them are becoming quite common. Sometimes the accident is caused by the truck driver’s active negligence while at other times it is due to lack of care by the trucking company (or passive negligence). […]
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Truck accident victims
Trucking safety is an issue that concerns all of us who make use of public roads, and this safety is largely dependent on truckers abiding by federal safety rules. As readers may know, the trucking industry is currently pushing to roll back changes to federal safety rules that impact rest breaks for truckers and to […]
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Failure to maintain brakes a common cause of truck accidents
Texans who routinely pay attention to truck safety news know that the issue has been increasing in importance not only over the last several months but over the last several years as the number of fatal crashes involving large trucks across the state has increased. Truck accidents, of course, can happen for all kinds of […]