Determining Liability Is Not Often Easy In 2015, 4,311 big trucks and buses were involved in fatal accidents, eight percent more than the previous year, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The sheer weight and size of a commercial...

When a beer truck carried a load 120 miles from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs in October 2016, it delivered not only Budweiser but also progress toward a future with greater efficiency, safety -- and risks. Unlike other trucks, this one had no driver. Instead, it...

Recently we posted some tips for drivers on how to stay safe when driving near large trucks. Most of the responsibility was placed on the motorists, in particular, what drivers should and should not do when sharing Colorado roads with an 18-wheeler. But what steps do...

Avoid Deadly Accidents in Colorado Involving Large Trucks Everyone who does any amount of interstate driving knows the dilemma all too well. You are driving on a busy highway and come upon an 18-wheeler, and you can't decide whether to slow down and follow the truck...

Interstate Haulers, Union Leaders Take Sides The administration of President Donald Trump has wasted no time in rolling back provisions of a rule requiring interstate truckers to take certain amounts of down time for sleep and relaxation. Federal rules limiting...

When two fatal truck accidents, just an hour apart, claimed the lives of three Coloradans recently, it was a shocking reminder of the hazards of heavy trucks sharing the road with personal vehicles. Statistics, though, show that here, and across the United States,...