federal jury award against trucking behemoth Swift Transportation for nearly $15.3 million is likely the largest single personal injury award in the history of the Kansas court system. The verdict came at the end of a lengthy trial arising from a 2006 collision between a vehicle of the Swift Transportation tractor-trailer fleet and an 18-wheeler...Read More

n late March 2010, news of one of the worst motor vehicle accidents in Kentucky history quickly made national headlines. Eleven people lost their lives when a semi truck crossed the median on Interstate 65, hitting a van carrying a Mennonite family on its way to a wedding in Iowa. The only survivors in the...Read More

n terms of bus safety, March 2011 was not a great month. In the early morning hours of March 12, 2011, 15 people were killed when their World Wide Travels tour bus lost control on a New York highway. Two days later, a Super Luxury Tours driver and passenger were killed when their bus crashed...Read More

urrently, semi trucks can legally operate at a weight of 80,000 pounds, including the truck and the cargo. A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the legal weight by more than 20 percent to 97,000 pounds. The bill has been referred to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highway and...Read More