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The insurance adjuster’s call comes within 24 hours of a serious truck crash. Sometimes it comes while the victim is still in the hospital. The message is consistent: the driver was an independent contractor. The...

The driver has been on the road for 12 hours. The legal limit is 11. He knows it. His dispatcher knows it. The Electronic Logging Device mounted to his dash knows it – it flagged the violation automatically when hour 11

You’re southbound on I-95, somewhere between Chester and Colonial Heights, running in the right lane beside a loaded Freightliner. The truck’s been beside you for half a mile. You’re not thinking about it....

An 80,000-pound semi at 65 mph carries roughly 20 times the kinetic energy of a 4,000-pound passenger car at the same speed. That’s not a statistic from a safety pamphlet – it’s the physics behind what...

Imagine you’re seriously hurt after a semi-truck collides with your vehicle. If the accident involved a standard passenger vehicle, you’d likely pin all of the fault on the other driver. However, commercial...