Truck Driver Fatigue Is One Of The Greatest Risks To Motorists On Our Highways
Truck Driver Fatigue is the number one safety problem in the trucking industry today and is a factor in 40% of all crashes nationwide. Greedy profit driven motives of trucking companies have made driver fatigue a largely unregulated problem resulting in catastrophic injury and wrongful deaths of thousands of innocent and unknowing individuals each year.
Truck drivers only drive their vehicles for a set hours at a time and must service their trucks within a proper timeline. However, most truck accidents are caused by driver fatigue and improperly maintained trucks and truck parts. Obviously, due to the disproportionate deadly weight and size of a truck involved, coupled with driver fatigue, the force of a large truck striking a car or motorcycle generally results in a catastrophic injury or death situation. Injured persons can hold truck drivers and trucking companies legally liable for the harm caused by their negligence and non-compliance with government rules and regulations.
Truck driver fatigue places all of us at risk as we operate our cars on the roads with large trucks. Each year truck crashes in the United States kill more than 5,200 people and injure more than 100,000. Federal regulations in the near future will mandate that truck and bus drivers in safety sensitive positions be tested for sleep disorders to decrease the number of crashes and fatalities.
The experienced truck accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily have been stalwart crusaders regarding the duties owed by common carriers to the public to make sure that safety sensitive positions require tests for drugs, alcohol and common sleep disorders such as sleep apnea. Obesity is also a major health issue in America and one of the basic causes and major predictors of sleep apnea and driver fatigue and often is unreported by truckers until it is too late and a tragic consequence occurs.
If you or a loved one has been involved in a car accident or truck accident, please feel free to contact the experienced truck accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily who have been successfully representing clients injured by semi trucks, tractor trailers, 18 wheelers, delivery trucks and common carriers in Pennsylvania since 1979. Please contact us for a free evaluation at 1-800-421-9595 or online at www.reiffandbily.com.
