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A recent safety inspection of 8,000 commercial vehicles across Texas found that nearly a quarter of them were unfit for the road. While that percentage is high, Fort Worth attorney Steven C. Laird says that it could have been much higher. "This was a well-publicized inspection, so a lot of truck drivers chose to take time off to avoid the inspection," says Laird, whose practice at the Law Offices of Steven C. Laird includes trucking accidents caused by driver carelessness, sleep deprivation, intoxication, fires, bad brakes and other preventable events. Laird says an estimated 4,000 people are killed by 18-wheelers each year, mostly due to their unsafe operation. About 10 percent of those deaths occur in Texas. "And now the speed limit has been raised to 85 mph in some sections of Texas highways. Who drives those roads? Those same unsafe commercial vehicles," says Laird. For more information, contact Dave Moore at 800-559-4534 or dave@androvett.com.