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…
As a Georgia attorney handling trucking accident cases, I often see cases where crashes occurred in bad weather. While most state laws define the standard of negligence liability as “ordinary care,” when a motor carrier driver is driving in adverse weather, an “extreme caution” standard under 49 C.F.R. § 392.14…
As a lawyer representing folks injured in trucking accidents, I often see trucking companies still trying to claims they are not responsible for an owner-operator truck driver they classify as an “independent contractor.” However, that is generally just a ruse to fool the uninitiated. A section of the Federal Motor…