TRACTOR TRAILER COLLISIONS

At up to 50,000 pounds, a tractor trailer going down the highway at 70 miles per hour is big, powerful, and potentially dangerous.  If the driver is sleepy because he has been on the road too long the likelihood of an accident increases dramatically.  Unfortunately there are few fender benders with a tractor-trailer on the highway.  Severe personal injury or death is too common.

There are federal regulations that restrict how long a truck driver can be behind the wheel and rules about proper maintenance of a tractor-trailer rig.  Immediately after an accident the truck driver must take a blood test for drugs and alcohol. It is very important to obtain a copy of the driver’s log, the maintenance records and to inspect the scene and vehicles involved-as soon as possible.  In many instances an expert in accident reconstruction can establish exactly what happened, but only if he has the vital information.

The lawyers at Barron & Berry have years of experience with many tractor trailer accidents.  We know how to find the evidence, how to put the evidence together and how to use it to prove what happened.