Sharing the road with other vehicles is a challenge. This can be especially true when you are talking about oversized vehicles like semi-trucks and tractor-trailers. These large scale vehicles take up a lot of space on the road. They are big, they are heavy, and they are often traveling at high speeds across America’s highways. […]

A semi-truck or tractor-trailer is said to jackknife when its trailer swings out from behind the truck bed and to its side, referred to as a tracker “swing” or “slew.” As a result, the truck forms a kind of “L” or “V” shape. It’s referred to as jackknifing as the truck resembles a folding pocketknife. […]

Some of the biggest blind spots on any vehicle are those on either side of 18-wheelers and other big rig trucks. The size of the truck’s blind spots and the size of these trucks in and of themselves can be major contributing factors in a variety of accident types, sideswipe accidents included. Here are some […]

Big rigs are just a part of American life on the roads. It is easy to become complacent when traveling alongside these oversized vehicles, but it is critical that we all be mindful of the risks of sharing the roads with semi-trucks. The sheer size and weight of these vehicles, combined with the weight of […]