How Are Big Truck Accidents Different

Being in a wreck with a big truck versus, being in a wreck with another car, is there’s some significant differences.

The obvious thing is a big truck can weigh up to eighty thousand pounds versus a car that might weigh two thousand pounds. And so the severity of the injuries, the severity of the damage to the vehicles can obviously be greater in a big truck case. After a big truck accident, we are gonna have our team out there doing an accident reconstruction to make sure that we get the facts nailed down as quickly as possible. That’s crucial. There are things about a big truck, case that need to be dealt with differently than a car accident case. There are federal regulations that they have to abide by, and those rules, if they are broken, oftentimes can be the ultimate or the real cause of that accident.

Whether they had their truck properly maintained, whether their tires were properly maintained, those are the type of things we look for, over and above whether or not they change lanes and hit you. We wanna know why, they change lanes and hit you. And it may be that they were they’ve fallen asleep. Whether it’s a big truck or a car wreck case, we’re gonna look at those things. But in a big truck, eighteen-wheeler type case, they’re they’re regulated by federal regulations that require them to do certain things and don’t allow them to do other things, and we wanna make sure that those rules were followed, not violated.