Every year, there are a staggering number of fatal accidents that involve one of the 125,000 plus UPS vehicles. A large fraction of their fleet comprises trucks – from the familiar brown delivery vans that come to your door, to monster triple-trailer semi-trucks carrying freight on America’s highways. In recent years, there has been an explosive increase in trucks on the roads as more people opt for home deliveries and online shopping. Unfortunately, if you’re involved in a crash with a heavy vehicle, such as a UPS semi-truck, it’s unlikely that you will survive unscathed. Furthermore, being in a UPS truck accident brings up a host of complex legal and regulatory issues. Any UPS truck involved in an accident will

Safety on our Roadways: Service Hour Guidelines for Truck Drivers Every day we share crowded highways with work commuters, e-commerce deliverers, ride-share drivers, school and metro bus drivers and large commercial truck drivers, among others.  Motorists use these roadways for a multitude of purposes. Yet if they have anything in common, it is to arrive at their destination without incident.  Safety affects everyone on the road. Among the more potentially dangerous vehicles are large trucks. By definition, a large truck is defined as having a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 10,000 pounds.  Weighing as much as four or more times the average car, large trucks are also vastly longer and wider.  When a truck of this size