Dallas Truck Wreck Lawyers

If you were hurt or a loved one was severely injured or tragically killed in a trucking accident, immediate investigation and concerted legal action may be necessary to protect your right to seek maximum recovery. Contact our Dallas Truck Wreck Lawyers for a free consultation.

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At Miller Weisbrod, our clients are not statistics — they are real people in need of proactive, aggressive representation to defend their rights. Our Dallas truck accident attorneys are absolutely prepared to take on even the biggest trucking companies and commercial transportation operations across the United States. For more information, contact our offices in Dallas atto schedule an appointment.

Among other notable truck wreck cases, our firm recovered $8,750,000 from a large trucking company which was responsible for the deaths of a 67-year-old and a 19-year-old who were from Mexico.

There's No Time to Waste in Truck Accident Cases

Commercial transportation is a major U.S. industry with a vested interest in limiting corporate liability in truck accident cases. Many large companies maintain rapid response teams of trucking company attorneys, accident investigators and insurance adjusters who are on call 24 hours a day to respond immediately in the event of a serious or fatal truck accident. They have one goal: Minimize the ability of victims to seek the compensation they may be due.

Understanding the Impact of Serious Truck Accidents

Accidents involving passenger vehicles and semi trucks or 18-wheelers often unfortunately result in catastrophic injury such as head injury, spinal cord injury or brain injury as well as wrongful death. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), a division of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 3,380 fatalities and 74,000 people injured in trucking accidents in 2009. Of these, 75 percent of fatalities and 76 percent of injured victims were occupants of other vehicles.



Large trucks were also more likely to cause multiple vehicle accidents. According to the study, 81 percent of all fatal large truck accidents involved more than one vehicle, as opposed to 58 percent for crashes between passenger vehicles.

Dangers of semi-trucks

An accident involving a semi-truck can easily be more destructive than one between passenger cars. The reason for this is because a semi-truck that is fully loaded can weigh up to 20 times what your typical car weighs. Some trucks carry flammable or hazardous materials, like industrial waste and gas. The outcomes of accidents involving these types of trucks can be especially dire.

Truck Driver Fatigue

The latest HOS rule reforms, announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on May 14, are modernizing hours for truck drivers. Many commercial drivers said that the old rules made it more difficult to do their job safely and earn a living.

Under the new rules, drivers may take their required 30-minute rest period after eight hours of consecutive driving instead of within their eight-hour driving period as the old rules mandated.

Truck drivers may now meet the 10-hour off-duty requirement by taking two periods of rest. One period must log at least eight hours in their sleeper berth and at least two hours either in or outside of the sleeper berth. Alternately, they can take a seven- and three-hour split with neither period counting against their 14-day driving window.

The new rules also allow truck drivers to extend their driving window up to two hours if driving in adverse conditions. The current rule already permits an additional two hours under the 11-hour clock, so the new rule expands the 14-hour clock by two hours as well.

Lastly, the new rule extends the maximum on-duty period for short-haul drivers from 12 to 14 hours and increases the radius from 100 air miles to 150 air miles.

What is semi-truck negligence?

A semi-truck driver may be deemed negligent if he or she jackknifed the truck due to driving too quickly and then having to suddenly brake and turn. However, jackknifing may not be negligent behavior if the truck driver did this as a result of unforeseeable situations.



For example, maybe the truck driver had to make a sudden turn to avoid a stalled motor vehicle, or maybe he did not know the road was slippery in the area that caused him to jackknife. Another possible example of negligence is if a semi-truck driver turns right onto another road using two lanes instead of one.

What are my rights?

Semi-truck drivers have a legal responsibility to exercise care when behind the wheel with the goal of preventing injury to other drivers as well as pedestrians and passengers. However, if the semi-truck driver in your unfortunate incident breached this duty to care for others on the road and caused you serious injuries as a result, you have the right to seek to hold him or her accountable by filing a personal injury claim. You could also name the employer in the lawsuit.



If you can establish liability in the accident, based upon a showing of negligence, you could be entitled to a monetary award that can help you cover your medical bills and possibly the loss of wages if your injuries cause you to miss work for a time. Your judicial award of damages may also help you to address any pain and suffering resulting from the accident.

Miller Weisbrod, LLP, represents victims of truck accident injury and wrongful death nationwide. We welcome the opportunity to apply our years of experience, skill and demonstrated ability to produce real results in difficult and complex cases involving:

Truck driver error & carelessness

Fraudulent logbooks

Equipment failure and negligent maintenance

Aggressive driving and speeding

Issues of corporate responsibility such as encouraging the use of onboard computers and texting while driving

Truck underride accidents due to lack of underride protection or defective under guards

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