Truck Accidents

When you’ve been in a truck accident with a commercial vehicle, you should take care to understand that this industry is pervasively regulated. When there is a truck accident involving a commercial vehicle, it is treated as an equipment failure. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are the governing body of commercial trucks and have…

Beloved comedian Tracy Morgan was hit a few years ago by a commercial Wal-Mart truck and suffered terrible brain injuries from which he is still recovering. In August 2015, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the driver’s fatigue was one of the leading causes of this accident, which also killed fellow comedian James McNair.…

Commercial trucks are required to have a number of safety features, but that doesn’t mean that those features can’t fail to do their jobs. Truck crashes and collisions can be really dangerous no matter where they occur, but they’re especially dangerous on the streets of big, busy cities such as Chicago. Whether tractor-trailers are rumbling…

On April 13, a collision between a garbage truck and a passenger vehicle left two injured and one man dead at the scene. A Republic Services garbage truck attempted to make an illegal left turn when a speeding vehicle driven by Giovanni Roman, 24, struck the passenger side of the truck. Roman was pinned in…

If it is not already intimidating enough to drive alongside an 18-wheeler commercial truck on the highway, just image that the driver of that 90,000-pound vehicle is impaired by drugs? The findings of a study originally published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine on the common use of booze and drugs among truck drivers was described…

In almost every truck accident case, the driver is liable if he or she failed to follow the rules of the road, drove while distracted or tired, or was negligent or reckless in any way. Experienced Chicago truck accident attorneys look to see who else might also be liable. Employers are generally liable for the…

Most Chicago personal injury cases are brought in Illinois state courts. More precisely, they are usually brought in the county where the defendant(s) live. Cases can be brought in federal court if there is a federal question involved. This is rarely the case in truck accident cases. The primary grounds for bringing a personal injury…

ABC Eyewitness News reported, in August of 2016, that a horrific chain reaction truck accident occurred on I-80, involving at least four trucks. The first truck was a tractor-trailer that belonged to a company based in Denver, Colorado – though the truck had Utah license plates. The other three, all from Illinois, included a back…

Truck drivers who operate their vehicles on federal roads, which most do, must comply with the various safety provisions of The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), as well as the rules of the United States Department of Transportation. All truck drivers must also comply the Illinois traffic rules. Some of the common rules that…

Vehicle crashes occur every day in and around Chicago. On highways and interstates, tractor trailer trucks (also known as big rigs or eighteen wheelers) often are involved in vehicle crashes, but on the crowded streets of a city like Chicago, smaller commercial trucks abound – and accidents involving one can be devastating. Types of commercial…