As a trucking accident trial lawyer representing both occupants of passenger cars and truck drivers who are badly injured in trucking collisions, I have been thinking a lot lately about the implications of rising oil prices on the trucking industry in general, and trucking safety in particular. If truckers are…
As a trucking accident trial lawyer in Georgia, frequently lecturing at trucking litigation seminars around the country, I try to keep up with the latest in trucking safety technology. One recent development is DriveCam, about which my friend Morgan Adams in Tennessee recently wrote on his blog. DriveCam utilizes a…
A recent truck accidnet on I-20 about 45 miles west of Augusta, Georgia, involved a truck loaded with 24 tons of ammonium nitrate used both as an oxidyzing agent in explosives and as fertilizer, overturned and began leaking. Three people were reported injured. Ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel is…
Many lawyers think that a tractor trailer crash is just a big car wreck. Not knowing how much they don’t know, they fail to take necessary steps to preserve and develop evidence. So how can you as a consumer identify an appropriate lawyer for a trucking accident case? My friend…
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…