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Large, gigantic trucks, such as 18-wheelers and tractor-trailers, are primarily used to transport heavy cargo or materials from one location to another. Similarly, a large truck is a vehicle that weighs 10,000 pounds or more. Overloading – truck accidents can occur when commercial drivers or truck drivers fail to properly secure the load or cargo during transportation. There have been incidents where truckloads have fallen off the truck, causing great chaos and fatal road accidents.
It is the duty of truck drivers to inspect the load and carry only as much weight as the truck can carry; otherwise, the truck could overturn or the cargo could fall on the road. Loading a semi-truck is not an easy task; it requires the driver or lorry inspector to ensure that the weight of the cargo is evenly distributed among the vehicle’s axles to ensure maximum safety. Additionally, the trucking regulations require the truck driver to ensure that the load is properly secured to prevent a truck-loading accident on the highway.
Many transport companies and owners attempt to accommodate extra weight, thereby overloading the truck and violating trucking rules and safety regulations. An overloaded truck is like a time bomb that can blast off during the journey, thus injuring many lives, damaging the roadways, and other vehicles. Just as bad is the situation where the load is not properly secured, which can lead to serious accidents.
Truck drivers and transport company owners have a duty to follow the trucking regulations and inspect the loads; failure to do so can put the driver’s life at risk. The cargo must be secured in accordance with the regulations.
Loading accidents should not have occurred, as a properly loaded vehicle is much less likely to cause an accident. Unfortunately, as the best truck accident lawyers can attest, loading accidents are all too frequent.
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In some instances, a truck driver has been injured during the loading process, which is a separate category of accident from the loading accidents discussed here. The unfortunate part of a loading accident is that the unsuspecting public usually has no way of knowing the truck driver is unreasonably dangerous.
Truckers injured in a loading accident often have legal options. Workers’ compensation in some instances and even third-party cases in others.
Greg Baumgartner is a trucking accident attorney in Houston and the founder of the Baumgartner Law Firm, which is dedicated to helping victims of eighteen-wheeler accidents seek civil justice.
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