Trucking Accidents

Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Your Average Industry Insider, Sorry, I Meant Expert In Part 10 of our Busting Brokers Series, we looked at the Defense's strategy of keeping all of it's "expert opinions" written by industry insiders who make their living off of the transporation industry. Let's start taking the most cited reports one [...]

Mix Two Parts Negligent Truck Drivers and Trucking Companies and One Part Innocent Public And You Get A Recipe For Disaster What do you get when you combine tractor trailers with a huge demand for shipping, too few drivers, and trucking companies that look the other way and often encourage drivers to drive more than [...]

BASIC Score Disclaimers Are Core Of A Third Party Brokers Defense - Part 8 In Part 7 of our Busting Brokers series, we looked at Anticipating their Defense. Now we drill down to the specific issues surrounding the disclaiming of BASIC scores. Disclaimer On BASIC Scores Another popular stratagem used by the brokers is the [...]

I got up to let my crazy cat out about 4 a.m. this morning and was startled by an 18 wheeler literally flying down the road in front of my house.  He had to be doing about 90. We live on a rural dark 2 lane road, it's not a highway and it doesn't have any shoulders [...]

Less paperwork for truck drivers means less protection for Tennessee drivers. We try very hard to share the road with large trucks but, as a Nashville truck accident and injury attorney, I can tell you that collisions between them and personal vehicles happen far too often.  For the most part, the drivers are careful, but [...]

I’ve handled many, too many to count really, vehicle accident cases in my twenty plus years as an attorney.  Every case had it’s own particular story and I have listened to and sympathized with every one of my clients and their families while successfully fighting to win judgments or obtain settlements that were fair in [...]

As we've talked about, the focus of brokerage operation is on pricing and on-time performance, not the safety level of the carrier the broker is putting on the roadways.  So, what could Pimp Daddy have done to screen its carriers that it did not do? Actually, there are several easy to access and wholly reliable tools in their arsenal to screen [...]

Aviation Law Ties Trucking Injury Cases Together   Planes, Trains, and Automobiles—Aviation Lawyers Blazing The Trail On Preemption As trucking and aviation attorneys, our practice plays an important role in keeping the airways AND roadways safe for passengers, crew, and individuals on the ground as well as in the air.  One of the most important [...]