The case involved Shawn Montgomery, who was catastrophically injured in a semi-truck crash when he was inside his tractor-trailer on the freeway shoulder in Illinois, and was hit by another tractor trailer who veered off course. Yosniel Varela-Mojena, the driver, was hauling plastic pots for a trucking company called Caribe Transport II. Montgomery’s leg had […]

When a collision occurs involving a box truck, the potential injuries can be serious. Due to the height of the cab, the blind spots created, and the additional distance required to stop, collisions involving box trucks have the potential to cause serious harm. If you have been injured in a collision with a Dallas rental […]

How Does a Truck Jackknife? A truck jackknife occurs when the trailer of a large truck skids, usually due to the cab braking faster than road conditions allow. The result is the truck essentially folding in on itself at the link connecting the trailer and the cab, forming a “V” shape. The term “jackknife” derives […]

Semi-trucks weigh at least three times as much as a large passenger car, and a fully loaded tractor-trailer can be as much as twenty times as heavy as the average vehicle. Such a significant disparity in weight means that trucks do not handle as nimbly as passenger cars, and they can inflict much more significant […]