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Regulations

Impatient driver attempts to cut off rig's right turn: Was the accident preventable?

Not wanting to get stuck behind the trucker's slow-moving rig for a long stretch of unpassable two-lane highway, a four-wheeler tried to cut across the grassy corner of the intersection to head off the tractor. Accident preventable? Or not?

November 6, 2023

Regulations

Trucker's trailer picks up an oak branch as decoration. Was the crash preventable?

A trucker running a rural, tree-lined road takes a massive branch with him after clipping it with his trailer. He contests the carrier's preventable determination. Was it actually preventable?

September 29, 2023

Regulations

Pickup truck cuts off tractor-trailer: Could the crash be anything other than 'nonpreventable'?

Overdrive's sister fleet publication CCJ refreshes its long-running "Preventable or Not?" series examining carriers' crash preventability determinations with this dramatic clear-cut case for fault. Preventability, it turns out, isn't so clear. ...

August 25, 2023

Channel 19

Preventable, or not: How to DataQ for FMCSA’s crash review program

Learn more about things to consider during the DataQ process of submitting a review through the FMCSA's crash preventability determination program here.

May 20, 2020

Business

Wreck on a foggy highway: Preventable or Not?

A beatup pickup pulled out in front of trucker John Doe on a foggy highway and the two collided. Was this preventable or not?

May 6, 2016

Business

Operator hits overhead door while exiting — could trucker have prevented it?

After truck operator John Doe pulled the loading dock at a grocery store, a staff member of the facility lowered the dock’s overhead door, which Doe hit on his way out. Could he have prevented the accident?

January 2, 2015

Business

9 items struggling owner-operators usually don’t have

After working with owner-operators for the last 37 years, I’ve concluded there are nine items that struggling owner-ops usually are missing. Here they are.

November 6, 2014

Business

Truck operator backs into on-the-move pancake patron — Could he have prevented the accident?

While making a deliver at a restaurant, truck operator John Doe backed into the car of an unsuspecting patron who was trying to leave the restaurant. Could he have prevented this accident?

August 29, 2014

Business

Quick-footed motorist clips rig’s trailer — could the trucker have prevented it?

John Doe could not move his tractor-trailer out of a tight squeeze in an intersection before an impatient sports car driver hit his trailer. Was this a preventable accident?

June 27, 2014

Business

Hard braking causes small load to come loose — Could trucker have prevented it?

A trucker in front of John Doe panic-stopped to avoid a deer, so Doe also hit the brakes hard, causing a tied-down drum to break free and damage his trailer’s interior. Could he have prevented the accident?

May 30, 2014

Business

Lane-changing Buick nails trailer’s rear — Could trucker have prevented it?

Truck operator John Doe was unable to keep his truck from being struck by a car that cut into his lane without warning. Was this a preventable accident?

May 2, 2014

Business

Driver slams tree in the road in heavy snow — Could trucker have prevented it?

Truck driver John Doe was caught in a bad blizzard on a dark road in the middle of South Dakota when he suddenly came up on a fallen tree in the road. He couldn’t stop in time to miss it. Could he have prevented the accident?

February 14, 2014