What Is A Commercial Vehicle?

Typically, people think of commercial vehicles as semi trucks attached to a trailer with 18 wheels, being operated by a long-haul truck driver involved in an injury accident. American Trucking Association’s (ATA) defines a tractor-trailer as a combination of both a tractor and semi trailer together. Sometimes the tractor-trailer is referred to as a trucking rig. The tractor is as a truck that pulls a semi-trailer by means of a fifth-wheel (hitch) mounted over the rear axle of the tractor. A semi-trailer is defined as a trailer that only has an axle at the rear wheels and at the front of the trailer a fifth wheel (hitch) attachable to a tractor. Tractor-trailers are the most common form of commercial trucks hauling a wide variety of cargo.

However, today commercial vehicles come in different shapes and sizes. Given the size of our economy and the need for goods shipped and delivered on demand, we have more commercial vehicles on the road than ever before. You need to call an experienced commercial vehicle injury lawyer, if you have been injured by any of the following types of commercial vehicles:

• Taxi, Uber, Lyft and other rideshare vehicles
• U-Haul, rental trucks 
• Limousines and 16-passenger vans
• Medical Transportation vehicles. 
• Cement mixer 
• Tow trucks
• Dump Trucks
• Garbage Trucks
• Waste Management trucks and trailers 
• Cargo Van 
• Food Trucks 
• Ice cream trucks
• School buses, public transportation buses, motor coach tour bus operators and other business transportation vehicles 
• Fire trucks 
• Semi Tractor trailers hauling heavy equipment, limo cars, trucks or specialty cargo (i.e., bulldozer,  hi-lo,  construction cranes)
• Delivery vans, trucks and cars used for business purposes (i.e., box truck, movers, vendors, ambulances)
• Moving trucks, and extended-cab semis
• Tanker trucks transporting hazardous waste or materials such as toxic waste truck, gas tanker, milk truck, or other liquid tankers

Commercial vehicle bus, large truck, van, and cars cause accidents injuries to thousands of people every year. In 2018 alone, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reported 5,096 large trucks and buses were involved in fatal crashes

We are a highly qualified Michigan commercial vehicle injury attorneys that will help you get the justice and compensation your injury claim deserves.

If you or a loved one have been injured in truck bus van car or other commercial vehicle accident due to the negligence of another motor vehicle driver, contact the expert commercial vehicle accident injury lawyers at the Joseph Dedvukaj Firm. We’ve helped victims all over Michigan get compensation for their boat accident damages and vehicle injury medical expenses.

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