The world of the commercial vehicle plays a vital role in each of our lives. Commercial vehicles provide us all with vital necessities every day. Each of us depends on truck drivers, freight companies and shippers to keep our country’s commerce moving. Take away the trucking industry for even one day, and we’d find ourselves in a pretty tough spot. But with the goods and conveniences that the commercial vehicle industry brings, come certain risks brought about by the enormous volume of trucks, the size of the vehicles and the dangerous cargos they sometimes carry.

The Safety Equation takes a hard look at the safeguards that exist to ensure that commercial vehicles operate safely, whose responsible to oversee their safe operation, whether or not the regulations that are in place are effective, and whether or not the commercial trucking industry complying with them.

You’ll also see the way seemingly insignificant violations can have a tremendous impact on the people involved in accidents where commercial vehicles happen to be involved.