When a truck crash happens on black ice, trucking companies often move quickly to blame the weather instead of their driver. But icy roads do not automatically excuse careless or unsafe operation, and accepting that explanation too easily can cost injured victims financially. Federal safety rules require commercial drivers to slow down or stop when…
When a semi truck crashes into a car, most people assume the police, the insurance companies, and the trucking carrier will preserve whatever evidence is needed. In reality, trucking companies often move faster than injured drivers. While victims are getting medical care at U M Health Sparrow or McLaren Greater Lansing, fleet managers may already…
It is a familiar sound on almost every street these days, the low beep of a delivery truck shifting into reverse. For most people it means a package is arriving. But in neighborhoods across the state, that same moment has ended in sudden damage or injury. Delivery truck backovers and driveway collisions have quietly become…