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Shifted Loads and Flying Cargo: How Improper Loading Causes Truck Wrecks — and Who’s Responsible
When people picture a truck wreck, they picture a collision. But some of the most devastating truck crashes begin with the cargo. A steel coil breaks its chains and comes through a windshield. Lumber or pipe spills across an interstate at 70 miles per hour. Or the danger stays invisible: a load shifts inside a…
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Why a Tractor-Trailer Wreck Is Not Just a Bigger Car Wreck
It is tempting to think of a tractor-trailer wreck as a car wreck with bigger numbers: a bigger vehicle, bigger damage, a bigger insurance policy. But truck cases differ from ordinary car wreck cases a vast number of ways, and in ways that matter: the rules that apply, the evidence that exists, the parties who…
