What Happens When a Trucking Company Sends a Rapid Response Team to Fort Worth?
If you’ve been seriously injured in a collision with an 18-wheeler on a Fort Worth highway, the trucking company likely knew about the crash before you left the hospital. Within hours of a catastrophic wreck, many large carriers dispatch "rapid response teams" to the scene. These teams include investigators, adjusters, and sometimes defense attorneys working […]
What Causes Most Commercial Truck Crashes in Fort Worth?
What Causes Most Commercial Truck Crashes in Fort Worth? Speeding, driver inattention, fatigue, and equipment failures are among the leading causes of commercial truck crashes in Fort Worth and throughout Texas. These collisions involve vehicles weighing up to 80,000 pounds, with catastrophic or fatal consequences for people in passenger cars, on motorcycles, or on foot. […]
Information You Should Know Regarding Large Truck Crashes
Despite improvements in passenger vehicle safety, nothing can completely protect passengers from the catastrophic effects of a commercial trucking accident.
Commercial trucks include large trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds such as eighteen-wheelers, tractor-trailers, flatbed trucks, heavy trucks and tanker trucks. Each year more commercial trucks crowd onto the nation’s highways. In 2014, there were almost eleven million large trucks registered in the United States.