As a trucking trial attorney, I see case after case of fatigued truck drivers, either near the end of their legal hours of service, or pushing beyond those hours, causing crashes due to impaired perception, reaction and judgment. For the past several years there has been a battle over extension…
While my perspective is that of a trial lawyer handling truck and bus accident injury cases in Atlanta, Georgia, it is necessary to keep up with developments nationally. Therefore, I am following how trucking safety issues are on the agenda for the new administration in Washington. Last Monday, the transportation…
As an Atlanta trial lawyer handling trucking accident cases throughout Georgia, and occasionally in neighboring states, I watch doings at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) with considerable interest. The news about FMCSA coming out of Washington this week was pretty scathing. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Transportation, Housing and…
Trucking accident trials often revolve around Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and evidence of how they were violated. Some of the regulations often referred to in cases where tired truckers wreck include the following: 49 C.F.R. § 392.3, Driver Impairment. No driver shall operate a commercial motor vehicle, and a…
As Georgia attorney working on trucking accident cases, I often seen why truck drivers’ paper logs are often called “comic books.” In one recent case, for example, a truck driver from Croatia who was trained by some unidentified Russian guy in North Carolina, worked for a trucking company owned by…