Articles Posted in Trucking industry

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 prone than other middle aged…

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 port to be transported across…

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 profile of Rev. Joe Hunter,…

The Obama administration has announced that Anne Ferro will be nominated to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. She is currently president of the Maryland Motor Truck Association, a trucking industry organization. Previously she ran the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, administering drivers licenses. Her nomination drew immediate praise from trucking industry officials. But the…

Today’s Los Angeles Times carries an article by Scott Glover reporting that the FBI suspects that serial killers working as long-haul truck drivers may be responsible for murders of hundreds of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists whose bodies have been dumped near interstate highways over the past 30 years. The FBI has compiled a database…

While my law practice primarily involves representing individuals and families in injury and death claims caused by negligent trucking companies, I get a lot of calls from truck drivers. Some of them are bright, sophisticated people. Last week I had a call from a truck driver who has a master’s degree from a nationally prominent…

Not surprisingly, the “safety culture” of a trucking company is a huge factor in determining whether its drivers are involved in catastrophic truck crashes. The Transportation Research Board published a couple of years ago “The Role of Safety Culture in Preventing Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes.” Some key points from that study are: • Culture and…

As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, and engaged with attorneys handling these cases from coast to coast, I try to keep up with the continuing shell game as the folks responsible for putting truckers on the road and pushing them often beyond both the rules and their capacity, seek to avoid accountability…

Corporate shell games to avoid accountability for injuring or killing people are all too common. We see it an a variety of contexts. Today I got an email outlining how attorneys for nursing homes are directing their clients to lower their insurance coverage to $100,000 and set up an intricate network of corporate entities to…

President Obama has signed legislation killing the Transportation Department’s controversial test of longhaul cross-border trucking with Mexico. As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I haven’t yet seen problems with Mexican truckers but I do see truckers who don’t speak English although adequate English proficiency is required under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety…