truck accident
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News Featured Stories Mobile DVR Fleet Solutions- October 12, 2022 178
It’s disheartening how a vehicle’s crash costs can pile up. If you’re a smaller fleet, it’s downright draining.
The costs of repairs are usually what come to mind, but there are less obvious expenses that sneak up and compound over time.
Damages
We’ll start with the immediate costs:
Property and vehicle damages cost tens of thousands of dollars–even more so if the vehicle or damage is beyond fixing and needs to be replaced.
Insurance
Few things in life are guaranteed, but taxes and higher insurance premiums after an accident can always be counted on.
Even if you’re not at fault, expect...
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Featured Stories Mobile DVR Safety Stats Fleet Solutions- September 21, 2022 549
Few businesses incur daily risks as high as those of a commercial truck fleet.
With some of the largest blind spots on the road, most hazardous cargo, and drivers who spend more time behind the wheel than passenger-vehicle drivers, higher rates of fatal accidents make sense.
Though it’s concerning, it’s no surprise that stats (courtesy of Policy Advice) as dismal as these exist:
- A large truck was somehow involved in around 74% of fatal passenger car accidents
- Passenger-vehicle occupants are 68% of all truck accident fatalities
- In 4% of the large trucks involved in fatal collisions, hazardous...
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News- March 25, 2015 28PITTSBURG, Calif. (KGO) --
There's a controversy Tuesday night about the maintenance of the big rig that slammed into a restaurant in Pittsburg killing the driver on Monday.
The California Highway Patrol says it has a list of violations that suggest the deadly accident could have been prevented.
ABC7 News spent the day looking into the safety of that big rig and the company that owns it. It turns out, Roby Trucking has a dubious record. The California Highway Patrol provided a stack of violations, which included all sorts of problems that came as no surprise to present and...
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News- December 30, 2014 145
A trucker has been killed and $1 million dollars in cash have been burnt up in a bizarre series of events that took place on I-20 near Waskom, TX at around 4:00a.m.
Atlas Van Lines driver Eric Royster of North Carolina’s vehicle caught fire when the friction from his trailer brakes catching got to be too much and flames broke out. Royster and his co-driver jumped out, detached the tractor from the trailer, and stood across the roadway.
Unfortunately, as Royster was taking pictures of his burning rig from a safe distance, he was struck and killed by a pickup truck driver who apparently didn’t see...
