What are the common causes of trucking accidents?
There are many factors that contribute to trucking accidents. These accidents are usually caused by a combination of a truck’s unique characteristics and performance capabilities (limits associated with acceleration, braking, and visibility) and car drivers’ ignorance of these characteristics. Some other causes of trucking accidents include: • Lack of training on the part of the truck driver; • Overloaded trucks; • Oversized trucks; • Poorly maintained brakes on the trucks; • Driving in conditions of poor visibility due to smoke, fog, snow or rain; • Fatigued, sleepy or tired driver driving too long and too many hours without rest; • Speeding or driving at speeds beyond the road and/or weather conditions; • Running off the road; • Failure to yield the right of way; • Aggressive driving behavior; • Truck drivers under the influence of drugs and alcohol while driving; • Driving the truck in bad weather conditions; • Dangerous or reckless truck driver with a long record of wrecks and acci
