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Getting behind the wheel when you’re sleep deprived is never a good idea. Research shows that even moderate tiredness can impair a driver as much as being legally intoxicated.Driving while fatigued can be especially dangerous for operators of big rigs and other oversized trucks. These vehicles can wreak an incredible amount of destruction when they…

It’s a topic that has inspired America for the past two centuries. Even our country’s greatest poets are eloquent on the subject. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Walt Whitman agreed, “I take to the open road,…

Distracted driving has always been a danger on our roadways. From playing with the radio to horsing around in the car, there are all kinds of distractions that can take our eyes off the road just long enough to cause an accident. In recent years, distracted driving has become a more serious issue given how…

In 2010, Georgia passed a law designed to penalize excessive speeders known as the Super Speeder Law. The law cited anyone driving more than 20 mph over the speed limit and imposed an additional $200 fine on top of a speeding ticket. Just five years later, five Georgia nurses lost their lives when a speeding…

It’s been a long road to recovery for comedian and actor Tracy Morgan. The SNL and 30 Rock star was involved in a deadly trucking accident in June 2014. His limo-van was struck by a speeding Wal-Mart tractor trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike. The accident killed his good friend James McNair and left Morgan…

About 11 people a day – over 4,000 a year – die in truck accidents. An astounding 100,000 are injured in trucking crashes, according to statistics published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. These sobering stats may come as a surprise to you since national coverage on the issue is thin. Local press will…

Just a few weeks into 2016 and the new year is already setting snowfall and temperature records up and down the eastern seaboard. Buried in Ice and Snow – NYC Comes to a Halt – Deadly Blizzard Paralyzes East Coast – these were some of the headlines covering “Storm Jonas.” Throughout the storm, one thing…

Americans have been dreaming of the self-driving car since George Jetson dropped off his boy Elroy in the opening credits of the Jetsons. The morning commute would be a dream if you could just get in the car, enter your destination and sit back and relax. Maybe take a nap, change your baby, or prepare…

Thanks largely to the invention of smartphones, this is the age of constant communication and instant information. Sometimes we look around and it seems like everyone around us has a cell phone they are staring at unblinkingly in their hand. While smartphones are revolutionary tools that keep us connected and answer questions with a swipe…

Last May, we brought you news that the new federal laws regarding electronic log devices (ELDs) were being instituted earlier than expected. As of October, those laws have been put into effect. With these laws have come a stark division of opinions among truck drivers across the nation. We recently spoke about the changes with…