Overloaded & Overweight Truck Accident Lawyer servicing the Galveston, League City, Corpus Christi, Texas City, Angleton, Baytown, Beaumont, La Porte, Eagle Ford Shale, and Pearland, TX areas. Contact our Overweight & Overloaded Truck Accident Attorney for a free case evaluation at 713-829-4317. An overloaded truck is one of the most common reasons for an accident to occur. Overweight trucks are difficult to stop because of the additional weight takes time to slow down after being accelerated.  Because of this overloaded trucks have an increased likelihood of losing control or failing to stop in time to prevent an accident from occurring.  Many of these trucks overloaded with cargo can become extremely instable and difficult to control while driving.

Overweight trucks need more momentum to move the cargo. As a result, their weight is disproportionate to that of a normal truck or even a passenger vehicle.  Overloading a tractor trailer can cause the brake failure or force the truck driver to have to serve to avoid an accident.  Many of these overloaded trucks require additional distances to be able to safely and properly come to a complete stop. Unfortunately, often times the lack of stopping distance room is often a common cause for an accident to occur. In the last three years the DPS weighed 75,630 trucks, ticketing 61,184 drivers for overweight violations in Texas.

Overloaded Truck Accident Causes

Lawyer for Overweight Truck Accidents in Texas

Overweight trucks are regulated by the Federal DOT (Department of Transportation) and the State of Texas Laws. Overloaded truck regulations cover the amount of weight that a commercial truck and semi tractor-trailer can have while on the roads. The regulations also state how much the total weight of the truck plus its load can be for the tires at each axle of the truck. Along the side of the Texas highways government agencies have set up weight stations as weight check points for trucks carrying heavy loads. Truck drivers must stop at every check point for inspection and to have the vehicles weight checked. If their inspection is failed often the truck driver will be cited overweight, they could then possibly receive at permit and allowed to carry on if instructed to do so. Overweight trucks are a danger for other drivers on the roadways. The heavy trucks can destroy the roads the traverse and cause accidents with other vehicles.

Common Causes for Overloaded Truck Crashes