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Accidents Kill over 5,000 Americans a year and injure almost 150,000
more. Many of these accidents are caused by the negligence and greed of truck drivers and the companies that hire them. Learn More | Contact Us |
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A truck company can be found directly negligent in an accident if it negligently hired the driver of its truck, failed to ensure that the truck driver was properly licensed, negligently entrusted the truck driver with the truck, failed to instruct |
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the truck driver on the safe use of the truck in terms of loading,unloading
and driving, and for negligent maintenance of the truck as well as
for failing to have truck properly equipped.
The trucking company has a “non-delegable duty,” i.e., a duty it cannot pass on to anyone else, to use reasonable care to equip and maintain the truck in compliance with the law. The truck must be equipped as required by statute and as is necessary for safe operation and must be maintained in a reasonably safe running condition. Failure to equip or maintain a truck as required by law gives rise to a presumption of negligence. |
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