Stevens Transport Truck Accident Attorneys

The "Problem" Trucking Companies Don't Want to Solve

This year, as many as 5,000 people will die in large truck accidents. According to the FMCSA, at least 1 in 7 of those crashes will be directly caused by fatigue. As many as 1 in 4 of those crashes will involve a trucker who was hauling for 17 hours or more that day. Experts believe that these numbers are too low—that exhausted truckers are a bigger problem than the data reveals because drivers often don't admit how tired they are.

Truck accidents often cause catastrophic injuries like:

Why are drivers so exhausted? A big part of the problem is the way that trucking companies pay their drivers. Most new drivers are paid between 25 and 40 cents per mile they drive—and that's their entire income. Drivers are sold on it as an opportunity to make as much as they want, but the opportunity for "unlimited pay" is severely limited by factors like traffic, the weather, unexpected repairs, and more. All the while, companies get away with leaving drivers unpaid for all the vital non-driving work they do.

Vital non-driving trucking work includes:

The duties listed above can eat up hours of a driver's week. It's not uncommon for a truck driver to work for 12 hours a day and see that they lost money on a day's work. To make ends meet, drivers do everything they can to increase their mile time: they eliminate breaks, they minimize sleep, or they eat prepackaged 'food' to avoid stopping for hot meals. Many of them turn to the methods they learned in trucking school to get around federal hours of service regulations, like keeping two logbooks to fool inspectors.

It creates a culture of "hard-driving," and even when it causes accidents or puts people's lives at risk, companies don't step in to fix it. Why? Because it saves them money. It increases their profits to have drivers pushing themselves further and further (at no real extra cost to their bottom line). Their policies created this mess, but they're in no hurry to 'fix' it—to them, it's not broken.

Speak with Stevens Transport Truck Accident Lawyers: (888) 493-1629

When truck companies get into accidents, they immediately get to work to squeeze or deny any claim filed against their driver or their vehicle. They deploy investigators, adjusters, and lawyers to gather evidence against the victims of truck accidents—often while those victims are still recuperating in the hospital. Our Stevens Transport truck accident attorneys want to level the playing field.

Arnold & Itkin LLP does that by deploying the same resources on behalf of our clients—people who only want enough money to pay for their medical care and provide for themselves and their families. Our firm has won billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for accident victims, helping them rebuild their lives and stay financially stable while they recover. Our approach has changed thousands of lives because it works.

Our firm covers the cost of each case from beginning to end, and our clients only pay if they win. Call (888) 493-1629!