FMSCA Violations Often Lead to Interstate Commercial Truck Accidents and Fatal Truck Collisions by Texas FMSCA Truck Wreck Lawyer and FMSCA Violation Truck Crash Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

FMSCA Violations Often Lead to Interstate Commercial Truck Accidents and Fatal Truck Collisions by Texas FMSCA Truck Wreck Lawyer and FMSCA Violation Truck Crash Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Approximately 9 million trucks travel the roads, highways, and streets of the United States every year.  The trucking industry that profits from these trucks includes about 110,000 for-hire carriers and 350,000 independent owner-operators with combined annual revenue of nearly $200 billion.  The trucking industry combined with other commercial vehicles are a dominant part of the United State economy and are necessary for many of our modern conveniences, but are also responsible for many of the fatal and catastrophic injury automobile accidents that occur on our highways and roads.  Approximately, 4000 people are killed in fatal trucking accidents each year and approximately 80,000 more people suffer serious life altering injuries.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and FMCSR Violations

 

The Interstate Commerce Commission was created by the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 and has since been responsible to develop and enforce safety regulations in the trucking industry. The safety regulations developed by the Interstate Commerce Commission are entitled the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (hereinafter, FMCSR). Despite extensive deregulation of the trucking industry through the 1980's and the transfer of licensing and monitoring of professional truck drivers to the States, the FMCSR remains the sole safety standard by which professional truck drivers and motor carriers are required to follow in the operation of commercial motor vehicles.

The purpose of the FMCSR is to "help reduce or prevent truck and bus accidents, fatalities and injuries by requiring drivers to have a single commercial motor vehicle driver’s license and by disqualifying drivers who operate commercial motor vehicles in an unsafe manner." 49 CFR 383.1(a).

Violations of these safety can often be the basis for a FMSCA Truck Crash Lawsuit that hold a trucking company responsible for the deaths or serious injuries of people injured in a fatal or serious injury interstate truck crash.   For more information on the FMSCR, FMSCA Violation Truck Accidents, and fatal truck crash accident investigations, please also feel free to go to the following web site: Truck Collision and 18-Wheeler Accident Information and Investigation Center.