Topic
Driver Fatigue
62 published works
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
Discovery in Trucking Cases – E-ZPass and PrePass
By Morgan Adams
One of the things you do when handling a trucking case, whether as a plaintiff or a defense lawyer, is to audit the drivers logs to determine if the driver was…
Employer Law Report
More Rest Time Required for Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
The United States Department of Transportation ("Department") has issued an Hours-of-Service ("HOS") Final Rule, that is meant to reduce the excessively long work hours of Commercial Motor Vehicle ("CMV") drivers.
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
Causes for Ashville, NC Wreck, Involving Globe Carrier Company, that Killed Five
By Morgan Adams
Truck driver Roumen Todorov Velkov, of Globe Carrier Co., killed five (5) people when he hit a line of stopped cars on Interstate 26 Sunday night, October 24, 2010. It…
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
TRUCK INDUSTRY TRIES TO HIDE EVIDENCE OF FATIGUE BY US SENATE BILL
By Morgan Adams
First a bit of background: Electric on Board Recorders (EOBR's) will soon be universally required in the trucking industry. This is a good thing as I have blogged about before here. Rules…
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
Solution For Fatigued Truck Drivers? Pay Them By The Hour!
By Morgan Adams
Ken Shigley recently posted an entry on his trucking blog entitled "Five common sense ideas for reducing the risk of truck driver fatigue." Ken has a lot of things right…
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
Senator Reid’s Wife In Accident With Pam Transportation Inc Tractor Trailer. What Happened?
By Morgan Adams
Landra Reid, 69, underwent surgery Friday at a Virginia hospital to stabilize injuries from a broken neck she suffered in the traffic accident. Virginia State Police say Landra and her…
Personal Injury
Tractor trailer in Oklahoma slams into line of stopped traffic, kills 9
By Ken Shigley
On Friday, 6/26/09, on I-44 near Miami, Oklahoma, a tractor trailer slammed into a line of stopped traffic, killing nine people. The tractor trailer driver apparently made no attempt to…
Employment & Labor
Bill in Congress would require Electronic On-Board Recorders in all interstate motor carriers
By Ken Shigley
To control truck driver fatigue, for many years federal regulations have required interstate truck drivers to log their driving, on duty and off duty time. But from the beginning, falsification…
Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Trucks Injure and Kill – Here’s Proof
I was just reading an article about the dangers posed by big rig trucks and the statistics are alarming. Every year truckers kill innocent persons because they fail to drive…
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
FATIGUED TRUCK DRIVERS 2.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE IN A COLLISION
By Morgan Adams
Drivers with obstructive sleep apnea have 2.5 times greater risk of having a highway accident than drivers without sleep apnea as the condition cases driver fatigue (Findley LJ, Unverzagt ME, Suratt PM,…