There are any number of ways that truck drivers and trucking companies can try to cover-up their negligence or avoid responsibility for damages, injuries, or deaths they cause. For example, trucking companies have been known to�falsify their records�to hide the...
A catastrophic�trucking accident�can happen anytime and anywhere on roads and highways across Georgia and across the country. According to the Georgia Department of Transportation, there were 1,065 traffic fatalities in Georgia through October 19, 2015, up from 943 deaths during...
There are many reasons for the tens of thousands of tragic tractor-trailer accidents that happen every year. Many of the incidents are caused by mechanical failures. However, the vast majority are the result of driver error, negligence or other factors...
As the old song from Smokey & the Bandit goes: �we�ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.� This could also be the motto of many truck drivers and trucking companies. Drivers get paid...
2015 was a particularly tragic year for tractor-trailer accidents on Georgia�s highways. During the first half of this year, it seemed as if the news was filled every week with horrific reports of fatal collisions involving big rigs, like the�two...
There are many reasons for serious tractor-trailer accidents, and there can be almost as many parties who are potentially responsible for any injuries or damages that result from the accident. In most accidents between passenger vehicles, there are generally just...
Is Congress going to weaken truck safety rules and increase the already significant dangers that big rigs pose to drivers across the country? Under a proposed highway funding bill, that is very much a possibility. The country�s highways, roads, and...
Commercial Trucking Accidents Are All Different The words �commercial trucking accident� always bring to mind crashes involving tractor trailer trucks.� You can likely blame that on us lawyers.� In my opinion, the word trucking should be removed from that description.�...
One Killed in Charlotte County, Florida When Tractor Trailer Truck Slams Into Stopped Vehicles Early this afternoon,�nine vehicles were involved in a Chain Reaction Crash on Interstate 75 North in Charlotte County, Florida�caused by a truck driver�s failure to see...