In recent months, the trucking industry has been backtracking on a raft of measures intended to bring more safety to big rigs. The Safety Measurement System is another system under threat. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched the new trucking safety initiative called the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program about five years ago […]
Texting at the wheel is illegal in Georgia. It’s bad enough to take your eyes off the road to text if you are driving a car. The consequences can be even more serious if you are driving a heavy truck. This is exactly what a dump truck driver is accused of doing near Rome in […]
Overweight trucks are a recipe for danger, injury, and deaths on the highways of Georgia. However, if a truck is improperly loaded, we may not always be able to tell. Even a truck driver may not be aware of the hazard until the vehicle tips over on a curve or during a lane change. Every […]
Crashes involving tractor-trailers are often the most serious kinds of wrecks on the highways of Georgia. Earlier this year, a big rig was at the heart of an eight-vehicle crash in Lawrenceville that killed one person and injured 17 others. Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge of Gwinnett County said in a news release a vehicle trapped […]
Tired truckers are a menace on the roads of Georgia. While crashes caused by fatigued truck drivers are all too common, the situation is unlikely to improve anytime soon. Recently, a move to tighten up the rules relating to trucker driving hours was defeated in Congress following pressure from the trucking industry. A report on […]
Tired truck drivers cause some terrible crashes on the roads of Georgia. However, fewer people are aware that regulations intended to improve the problem were defeated last year. The scuppering of new rules to keep tired truckers off the road was greeted as a victory for the trucking industry, reported Associated Press. Last December GOP […]
If you are hit and hurt by a car in Georgia, liability is usually straightforward if the other driver is to blame. You file a claim against his or her insurance company. It’s more complicated after a commercial vehicle crash. If you are injured by a tractor trailer or a box truck, a number of […]
