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The westbound lanes of interstate 80 between Mustang and Patrick, Nevada, were closed for several hours on a Wednesday afternoon after a collision between a Ford pickup truck and a large box truck. More recently, a semi-truck hauling dog food ran into a bridge and crashed near McLean and Bottom Road outside Fallon just before midnight on a past Tuesday. Also, a 43-year-old Las Vegas native was driving his

Anytime day or night, large semi-trucks are a common site on Nevada’s roads and interstates. The more goods that trucks move, the more money for trucking companies, so truck drivers are working around the clock. Regulations and policies are in place to limit the number of hours a truck driver may work in a 24-hour period, but the culture and compensation structure in the trucking industry encourage drivers to

A recent crash in the Las Vegas area has caused the death of one driver. The accident comes as safety experts and lawmakers debate a change to large truck safety requirements that may have prevented the crash. Read on to learn more about the accident as well as the safety protections that may have prevented it, and contact a seasoned Henderson personal injury lawyer if you’ve been hurt in

A new law that took effect on the first day of 2016 has reworked specific provisions of the Nevada Revised Statutes, changing the word “accident” involving motor vehicles to “crash”. The substitution in legal terminology is intended to send the message that vehicular collision or crashes are preventable occurrences and that drivers must be responsible for keeping roads safe. In Nevada where semi-trucks, large trucks, and commercial tractor-trailers frequently