Trucks are a vital part of the American economy, especially in Los Angeles, California which has the busiest port in the nation — but on the street, they may be deadly.
As a result of lax federal regulations and manufacturers that put profit first, private trucks like big rig trucks, bobtail trucks, and pickups are not held to the same stringent safety standards as passenger cars, even though they’re frequently employed for commercial purposes to transport freight all over the nation.
Large industrial trucks like tractor-trailers, big rigs, or eighteen-wheelers weigh around 20 times up to a passenger car, virtually guaranteeing they’ll crush smaller vehicles in a crash. Furthermore, due to the size of these behemoth trucks, they do not have the range of vision that people in cars usually have, therefore they often switch lanes, or do other dangerous things on the road because they cannot flat-out see as well as people in cars can.
Worse, some truckers and trucking companies, in a bid to maximize profits and gains, make their own deadlines and ignore safety regulations meant to keep the public at large safe.
Victims of automobile accidents — people in or outside the truck — are likely to be killed or sustain catastrophic injuries such as brain damage, spinal injuries, amputations and other serious injuries.
Commercial truck drivers are professionals with special training and special safety regulations governing when and how they may drive. Truckers and trucking companies regularly ignore those laws so as to satisfy strict delivery deadlines.
Sometimes, that contributes to truckers piloting ten-ton vehicles with very little sleep or ingesting amphetamines, caffeine, and other drugs to stay awake. Sometimes, trucking companies fail to maintain wheels, tires, lights and other equipment like they are supposed to, placing their own drivers and everyone around them at risk of a serious truck accident.
A few unscrupulous trucking firms knowingly hire cheap but unqualified big rig truck drivers who never earned a commercial driver’s license in the first place, taking the chance that they will no be pulled over by law enforcement.
Federal statistics show that large trucks like big rigs and 18-wheelers — comprise only three percent of those vehicles on our roads but yet are involved in 12 percent of all traffic fatalities.
Smaller and individual trucks share a number of the same risks as big rig trucks. They may not weigh 80,000 pounds like big rig trucks, but they’re still taller and heavier than many of the passenger cars on the street, giving them the capability to crush smaller automobiles within an automobile incident.
Statistics demonstrate that pickups along with other private trucks are also more than two times as likely as passenger cars to have a fatal rollover incident. Recent-model pickups have seen a slew of recalls and product flaws that could put their occupants of SUVs and pickup trucks at grave threat, such as defective tires, door springs which do not work and improperly secured seat belts.
The Los Angeles personal injury attorney staff at The Law Office of Norman Gregory Fernandez has a strong record of success in cases involving big rig truck, smaller truck, car and automobile accidents. Our wins comprise all types of vehicle accident cases. We’ve got the experience, skills and resources to handle Los Angeles Truck accident cases which are sometimes complicated, lengthy cases.
In our experience big rig truck companies and their insurance companies tend to want to fight and litigate more than ordinary automobile insurance companies because the truck drivers if found to be at fault could potentially lose their commercial license. Therefore, truck drivers tend to never tell the truth when it comes to who is at fault in the accident.
Our Los Angeles truck accident attorneys are experts at obtaining results in Los Angeles Truck accident cases, and Truck Accident Cases all over California. For a free consultation call 800-816-1529.
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