Posts tagged Trucking Accidents

• More On Work Zone Safety

  Brooks Schuelke | August 05, 2009 9:40 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  I missed the boat. Yesterday, I wrote about the horrific tractor trailer crash near Gainesville, Texas. The wreck, which killed a Bedford, Texas couple and a Louisiana man, occurred near a work zone...

• Trucking Accident Report: Truckers Can Easily Cheat on Drug Tests(2)

  Brooks Schuelke | November 04, 2007 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The General Accounting Office has recently used undercover investigators to reveal how easy it is for truckers to cheat on drug tests. The report found that seventy-five percent of the drug testing locations didn't maintain secure testing areas, allowing truckers to compromise the results of drug tests. In addition, the study found numerous online masking agents that they were able to use in...

• An Unusual Trucking Accident?

  Brooks Schuelke | October 13, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  It would seem to be unusual way for a trucking accident to occur, but a new story in the Indianapolis Star reports that six people have been killed on the nation's highways this year by wheels that broke loose from semi trucks. The latest victim was a police officer that was helping another officer at a traffic stop. Particularly disconcerting is the fact that the truck driver didn't even...