Maintenance Required to Ensure Safe Tractor Trailers The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration tracks data on commercial trucking in the United States. It has found that poor truck maintenance is a significant cause of commercial truck accidents and that well-maintained tractor trailers are far less likely to be involved in an accident. These sobering statistics…
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Large Truck Blind Spots Can Be Deadly In 2017, there were 450,000 crashes involving large trucks that were reported to law enforcement. Among those collisions, 344,000 were injury accidents and 4,237 were fatal crashes. In its Large Truck Crash Causation Study, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that surveillance problems, which happen when drivers…
