Throughout rural Georgia, clearly unsafe log and pulpwood trucks operate on the highways with little apparent concern for safety of the public with whom they share the roads. Just as trucking accident cases are different from car wreck cases, log truck cases are different from other trucking accident cases. – Insurance coverage. Most log trucks…
Continue reading ›Stability of semitrailer tanker trucks with high and shifting centers of gravity is a significant issue in tanker truck accident cases. Now the National Transportation Safety Board has recommended for commercial vehicles over 10,000 gross vehicle weight: – that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration require retrofitting of stability-control systems on tanker rigs; and –…
Continue reading ›Plans for truck-only lanes on metro Atlanta expressways are among the aspirations cut from the Atlanta Regional Commission’s transportation long-range plans released this week. The ailing economy and strapped government budgets led the ARC to ax or defer beyond my likely lifetime: – optional toll lanes alongside I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties…
Continue reading ›Truck driver fatigue is one of the more common causes of tractor trailer collisions. Too often the trucking industry pushes drivers to complete deliveries on impossible schedules, falsifying their logs if necessary to look legal if they are stopped. Over the years as a trial lawyer specializing in interstate trucking accident cases, I have heard…
Continue reading ›On March 2, 2007, at 5:38 AM, a charter bus from Ohio carrying the Bluffton University baseball team to a tournament in Florida went off a confusingly marked HOV exit from I-75 at Northside Drive in Atlanta. When I traveled to Columbus, Ohio in July 2011, I participated in the mediation that produced the final…
Continue reading ›In a major crossroads of interstate truck traffic, we in metro Atlanta frequently see tractor trailers from the nation’s largest trucking companies on our roads. Wherever they travel in the United States, they are regulated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Here are the top 100 public trucking carriers in the US in 2010,…
Continue reading ›Atlanta has always been a transportation hub from its founding as a railroad town in the 1840s. At the crossroads of I-75, I-85 and I-20, Atlanta is a center of interstate trucking activity as well. On our highways we see trucks from most of the largest trucking companies in the US. Fortunately, most operate pretty…
Continue reading ›A tractor trailer driver did not slow from 65 mph before crashing into a line of vehicles that had slowed for traffic on I-40 in North Carolina on June 30th. One passenger vehicle caught fire, and one person was killed. According to a report from the North Carolina Highway Patrol, 50-year-old tractor trailer driver Ronald…
Continue reading ›While Georgia is a long way from the Mexican border, as a tractor trailer and big rig accident trial lawyer based in Atlanta, I have for several years followed the controversy over allowing Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States. Concerns about safety rules and practices in Mexican trucking have simmered since 1995.…
Continue reading ›Today the Supreme Court of Georgia held, in a 4-3 decision, that notwithstanding a moral obligation to do so, a motel manager has no legal duty to investigate the health of a guest on the request of a family member. In the case of RASNICK v. KRISHNA HOSPITALITY, INC., a 77 year old man from…
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