Truck Accidents Involve Complex Issues & Serious Injuries
Many truck accidents result in substantial property damage or personal injury, including broken bones, brain injury, or death.
Federal regulations allow drivers of large trucks to drive up to 16 hours a day. However, under the regulations drivers can drive 60 hours in less than five days by alternating ten hours of maximum permitted continuous driving with the minimum eight hours off duty. Surveys reveal that many drivers of 18 wheelers violate the regulations on hours of service.
Studies also show that driver fatigue plays a role in tractor trailer wrecks and also that drivers are more likely to crash after many long hours of driving. The Department of Transportation has recently adopted a new version hours-of-service rules. Many highway safety authorities believe the trucking industry weakened the change to a degree that still allows fatigued truckers on the road.
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