If you have been involved in an accident where a Semi Truck and a tractor trailer has caused harm to you. Tractor trailer and trucks weight hundreds of times more then a regular car, ad because of that when they cause accidents the accident are typically catastrophic.
The truth is that the human body is not made to be put in to a small metal box and travel at high speeds. When you add thousands of metric tons of steels exerting pressures in a truck accident, you have the recipe of permanent and catastrophic injuries to the passenger.
The only silver lining is that most trucking accidents are caused by people who own commercial trucks. Commercial trucking companies typically own a commercial insurance policy, and we hope that when a commercial insurance policy is available we will have enough money to compensate the injuried parties for their medical care and pain and suffering or if they pass, monies to compensate their families for the vacuum in income that they leave behind.
Let me cover what we typically look for in a trucking case:
1. The driver’s sleep pattern and sleep schedule. Research has uncovered that trucking companies are always putting pressure in the drivers to move the loads across state lines or along their routes, and as drivers have more and more pressure they cut out their own sleep more and more and often end up compromising their own ability to pay attention to driving the truck.
2. The maintenance logs for the trucks. We know based on experience that he next most common cause of accidents when a truck is involved is mechanical failure dues to negligent maintenance. We look for maintenance logs, which are required by law to determine if all of the proper maintenance was being done at the time of the accident.
3. We look for the driver’s pick and delivery schedule. This is relevant because it helps establish a patter against which the backdrop of the case is developed. 4. How the cargo lad is secured for those cases where the cargo load either came loose or caused a crash or the cargo load contributed the injured after the initial crash by coming looses.
5. The next thing is obviously the drivers training and experience level. The is important because we can determine if the truck driver fell short of the standard in comparison to other drivers with similar experience and training and determine if he acted negligently.
6. Obviously the drivers health, mental and other medical condition is relevant because it goes to if the driver had a chronic or acute condition that was known or could have been known through the exercise of regular caution and could have been used to prevent the catastrophic truck accident.
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