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Truck accidents can be traumatic, complicated, and cause tremendous damage and injury. As a result, the police report becomes one of the most important pieces of information used to determine what actually happened. The report isn’t a final judgement of what happened or who’s at fault, but the officer’s opinion can weigh heavily on the…

Law firms often state on their websites that they “specialize” in a type of law, whether it be business litigation, personal injury or immigration. However, most law firms are prohibited from using the word “specialized” by their respective state legal bar association. This word and other superlatives could be misleading, since there has not been…

Truckers endure long hours with little to no rest. But when routes are carefully planned, why are truckers still so tired? One answer: Truckers are challenged with prolonged waits at loading docks. Wait times cut into a trucker’s driving time. Truckers trying to achieve a target arrival time have less opportunity to rest and are…

On the morning of March 12, 2016, Steve Brown was on his way to work at roughly 5:20 a.m. in Winston Salem, North Carolina, when he hit a tractor trailer making a U-turn in the dark. He sustained serious injuries, including a traumatic brain injury. In the wake of the accident, Steve’s wife Sue called…

Georgia’s highway congestion problem is so severe that in 2017, transportation analytics’ company INRIX ranked Atlanta as the fourth most bottlenecked urban area in the country. Drivers from Atlanta spent an average of 70 hours sitting in traffic during peak hours in 2017. To put it in financial terms, the hours spent in traffic cost…

A Georgia trucking company was shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) last week for numerous glaring safety violations. Acworth-based Daya Trucking was ordered to cease all operations and report locations of all its trucks after federal investigators found truckers on controlled substances or driving with bad brakes, worn-out tires or missing…

It’s a situation that still happens too often when a group of responsible adults entrusts a charter bus for their safe transportation and it results in disaster due to driver irresponsibility and outright negligence. On April 5th, 2018 at approximately 8:45 a.m., a limousine bus carrying 18 passengers to the Masters Golf Tournament flipped onto…

New federal regulations mandating the use of electronic driver logs are now set to go into effect sooner than expected. The Department of Transportation will now publish its new rules covering electronic logs on Sept. 30. The DOT had previously said the final rules, which aim to keep the roads safer by reducing driver fatigue,…

Have you ever found yourself boxed in between large fast-moving trucks on a busy freeway? Perhaps you’ve looked in the review mirror while at a stop light only to see an oncoming truck that looks like it isn’t going to stop in time? Have you been startled by a loud truck noise that takes your…

Equipment manufacturers have made remarkable advances in safety and technology to help reduce the rate of truck accidents, as well as related injuries and fatalities. That being said, the most recent traffic studies show that the rate of truck accident injuries and fatalities hasn’t decreased in recent years; it’s actually on the rise. Does this…