Several times I have written about the difficult lifestyle of truck drivers, and how that adversely affects their health and the safety of others on the roads. It is virtually impossible to find healthy food or a place to exercise at truck stops across America. So truckers are somewhat more…
As a trucking accident trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I often litigate about trucking accidents. As a seminar speakers, I often talk about them at continuing legal education seminars around the country. On this blog, I frequently write about them. But last Sunday, I saw one. While helping my son…
Every time I make my way from Atlanta to Savannah, I enjoy watching the container ships cruising up the river past downtown. They are always stacked high with hundreds of huge freight containers. Thousands of those containers are unloaded from the ships onto truck trailers and trains at every major…
The STAA (Surface Transportation Assistance Act), which also covers truck driver whistleblower cases, gives truck drivers a right to refuse to drive a commercial vehicle when it would violate the law to do so. Examples include driver fatigue or illness, unwillingness to participate in an illegal activity, or a reasonable…
Today a tour bus carrying the Morehouse College band to a football game in Albany hydroplaned, crashed and overturned on I-75 in Henry County, south of Atlanta. The incident immediately brought to mind the crash of a tour bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team as it passed through Atlanta…
A 25 year old Hahira woman was killed on October 20th when an 18 wheeler from Ohio ran a stop sign and her car crashed under the side of the trailer. Christian Jennings at WALB-TV in Albany, reported that Julie Tyler, who made pictures of school children as a photographer…
As a trucking accident trial attorney in Atlanta, it may appear that I’m always focusing on the negative about truckers, even though I’m often representing innocent truckers against other truckers who injure them. This Sunday, I want to call attention to a more positive story about truckers. CNN ran a…
A prominent highway safety organization, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to evaluate risks posed by drivers of commercial vehicles using electronic devices and to then issue regulations to limit such distractions. Electronic distractions that cause concern include cell phones, text messaging,…
While I am an Atlanta trucking trial attorney now, many years ago I was a child at Mentone, Alabama, frequently trekking to Chattanooga with my parents. Our usual route was through Dade County, separated from the rest of Georgia by Lookout Mountain,(historically known as “the independent state of Dade”). While…
As a trucking accident trial attorney in Atlanta, I see all the time how regulatory decisions in Washington impact safety on the roads throughout the U.S. A Senate committee hearing today on the nomination of Ann Ferro as administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration brought that into focus.…