Truck Accidents

Those of us who live in the Joplin area are familiar with the web of highways and interstates that crisscross and surround the city. We depend on the large commercial trucks that make their way in and out of Joplin to carry our products off to others and to bring in needed merchandise and supplies. […]

It’s nearly 250 miles from Joplin to Missouri’s Boone County, but it’s the kind of hours-long haul truck drivers make routinely. Unfortunately, it’s not always the kind of haul that can be made safely. Earlier this week, a pair of truck accidents on Interstate 70 took two lives. One person died in Boone County in […]

Most truck drivers are good people who are concerned with highway safety. But as in all other lines of work, there are some who break the rules and make their peers look bad. One of the most commonsafety regulations broken in trucking is the rule restricting the hours a truck driver can drive and work […]

As far as the trucking industry is concerned, it’s always a good time to roll back regulations that restrict how long truckers can drive per day. However, in the wake of national headlines generated by thetruck accident that killed a man and left comic Tracy Morgan with critical injuries, several U.S. senators say they don’t […]

If you drive about 30 miles north of Joplin, you come to the town of Frontenac, Kansas. Two weeks ago, an elementary school principal, her son and her assistant were stopped mid-morning in a car at a stoplight. That’s when a Kenworth tractor-trailer slammed into the back of the 34-year-old principal’s vehicle, shoving it forward […]

A March 28 truck accident outside of Reeds Spring, Missouri fortunately only resulted in injury to the truck driver. The truck driver was operating a 1997 GMC 7500 truck and was hauling gas at the time that the accident occurred. The Missouri Highway Patrol reported that the truck was traveling at too high of a […]

The last days of 2013 were marred by the loss of a 44-year-old Joplin man in a series of crashes on Interstate 44 in Lawrence County. Law enforcement officials said that the chain reaction of collisions began with a truck accident. Afterwards, the Joplin man was dead and seven others injured in a series of […]

There is no doubt that in Joplin, we rely on commercial trucking to bring goods in and out of our city. There’s also no doubt that heavy, fast-moving tractor-trailers increase dangers on Missouri’s interstate highways and city streets. Findings from a recent study show that big rigs are involved in a disproportionate number of accidents. […]