18-wheeler
Sleep apnea makes 18 wheeler drivers even more dangerous
It’s bad enough that 18 wheelers, semi trucks, big rigs and tractor trailers are slaughtering thousands of innocents on America’s roads and highways. Now we learn that our beef with the trucking business may include beefy drivers.
Sleep scientists at Harvard University have discovered a strong link between overweight drivers and apnea sleep, a sleep disorder [...]
You’re injured — what time is it? It’s HAMMER TIME
Your car was just rear-ended by a distracted motorist blabbing on his cell phone and now — through no fault of your own — you’ve got bills to pay for damages. What time is it? It’s HAMMER TIME.
You’ve waited months for your insurance company to make good on its policy and pay for your property [...]
A tractor trailer large truck kills large numbers in Texas-to-Mexico accident
Large passenger buses are inherently dangerous. Big rig trucks, semi trucks, 18 wheeler trucks or tractor trailers are even more so. When combined, how dangerous are they? You do the math.
The tragic numbers after a recent bus-truck crash in northeast Mexico were 11 bus passengers killed — including 10 United States and Canadian tourists — [...]
18-wheeler carnage is steady, but never ‘routine’
A problem with waking up Americans about the carnage on their roads and highways is that traffic tragedies, though they take an enormous toll, are incremental. Six die in Florida. Two more die in East Texas. It’s news, and it’s shattering to the victims’ immediate families, but in the broader news context of a given [...]
18 — as in 18-wheeler — can be an unlucky number
In many ways, driving is all about margin of error. Or in gambling terms, it’s about odds. When you drive defensively, you enhance your odds, along with the margin of error by you or another driver. If you tailgate, drive too fast, change lanes suddenly, cut off other cars and otherwise are reckless, your margin [...]
