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A horrific accident near Sacramento, California on April 10 has killed at least ten people, including five high school students who were en route to tour a college campus. The busload of students and chaperones was travelling northbound on Interstate 5 when a FedEx freight truck in the southbound lanes crossed over the median and... read more

Late last month, a terrifying accident occurred just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico when a tractor trailer carrying a tank of water was rear-ended by another semi-truck and spilled its contents on the road, causing the second truck to overturn and leading to a complete closure of the westbound lanes of I-40 for several hours. Luckily,... read more

In an interesting decision that was published on February 24, 2014, the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, who had filed suit against an Insurance Company after being involved in a semi-truck accident. In Lucero v. Northland Insurance Company, NMCA 2014 (docket No. 32426), the Court decided that a semi-tractor... read more

The New Mexico federal court’s ruling in Tom vs SB Inc. denied the defendants’ requests to enter evidence of adjustments they had made to the time logging practices that their semi-truck drivers used. This ruling demonstrates that many commercial semi-truck drivers fail to keep the required time logs, and even when they keep a time... read more

A driver had a terrifying morning on the streets of Loving, New Mexico on March 7, when his car became wedged underneath a semi-truck and dragged through the street. According to a report from Current-Argus News, the truck – with the car underneath it – finally came to rest on a railroad crossing. The driver... read more