A Senate subcommittee recently met to discuss lowering the age of truck drivers on U.S. roadways. A bipartisan bill seeks to authorize drivers as young as 18 to get behind the wheel of a commercial truck for interstate trips. Currently, truckers who want to drive across state lines must be…
Truck accidents aren’t like other vehicle crashes. Commercial trucks are larger and heavier than standard passenger vehicles. That means when a tractor-trailer is involved in an accident, the injuries tend to be severe and the chance of fatalities rises dramatically. There were almost 450,000 police-reported crashes involving large trucks in…
