Defensive Driving Tips and Techniques

Truck regulation is a politically popular topic these days. With the explosion of commercial truck traffic and many stories of catastrophic accidents on the highways. Accidents involving large vehicles usually end in great destruction and fatalities.

Over the past several years federal regulation of the trucking industry has tightened, and fatality accidents have actually decreased, in relation to freight miles driven. But why then do so so many menacing trucks seem to be still on the road?

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Accidents involving trucks seldom occur but when they happen, they are often with tragic and disastrous results. Although incidents of large truck crashes have declined in recent years, accidents involving trucks still claim 5,000 fatalities each year.

Some of the common causes of truck accidents that may be attributed to truck drivers are the following:

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