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Commercial trucking is essential for supplying goods and services to consumers. However, the thriving trucking industry in Texas means congested roadways and increasing numbers of Dallas trucking accidents involving large commercial trucks. A fully loaded semi-tractor-trailer truck can weigh as much as 18,000 pounds. In a collision with a 4,000-pound car, the motorists in the smaller private ...

Commercial truck accidents are often serious in nature. Since these vehicles such as semi-trucks and tractor-trailers are huge in size and weight, a collision with a non-commercial passenger vehicle can be quite devastating, typically leading to catastrophic and fatal injuries. Another major difference between commercial truck accidents and crashes involving only passenger vehicles is that more ...

Most states in the country require companies to provide workers’ compensation to employees injured on the jobs. However, Texas does not. Texas allows companies to opt out of workers’ comp and replace it with their own regulations. New employees also might not know what they’ve signed up for with all the new-hire paperwork they get handed until they actually get injured. For example, John Hernandez ...