Tennessee Truck Injury Lawyer & Attorney : Morgan Adams : Trucking Accident, Truck DUI DWI, Semi-Truck Accidents

A new organization for lawyers who represent victims of truck, bus, and commercial motor vehicle accidents was recently founded. The organization is limited to those lawyers who represent individuals against these large companies and their huge insurance companies. See:  www.aitlamerica.com/CrashVictims.aspx 

AITLA is the counter to the long established Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) whose members are allowed to only represent trucking, bus, and commercial motor vehicle companies, insurance companies, and at fault commercial drivers. If you represent individuals who have been harmed by the trucking industry you can't be a member. See their web site at: www.tida.org  TIDA was founded in 1993 and has 1,200 motor carriers, trucking insurers, defense attorneys and claims servicing companies as satisfied customers.

I previously posted a blog on how to choose a trucking lawyer. Let me now add that if the lawyer you are considering hiring for your case is not a member of AITLA, you should consider another lawyer. Trucking cases are complicated, hard fought, and require specialization and most lawyers simply don't have the depth of knowledge necessary to handle these cases.

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New Jersey has passed a law that makes it illegal, beginning March 1, 2008, to  talk on a hand-held cell phone while driving or to text message while driving. My truck driving friends tell me this is long overdue as they frequently see passenger car drivers oblivious to the danger they create when they are talking on the phone.

Washington was the first state to ban texting in a car back in 2007. Connecticut and New York also have bans on the use of cell phones, New York is apparently allowing the use of hands free devices.  The New York hands free approach was followed by California and D.C. Some states only limit the use of cell phones by school bus drivers, Arkansas and Arizona for example.

Expect the ban on cell phone use while driving to spread. Studies equate to driving while on a cell phone to driving while drunk. If you wouldn't drink and drive, don't call and drive. The studies started in 1997 and found someone talking on a cell phone is four (4) times as likely to cause accidents when engaged in cell phone conversation than when not engaged in cell phone conversation. The landmark epidemiological study is Redelmeier and Tibshirani (1997) “Association Between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions.” New England Journal of Medicine, 336, 453. The study examined the telephone records of 699 auto drivers who had caused motor vehicle accidents and found that 24 percent were involved in cell phone conversations at the time of the accidents. The established four fold increased incidence of accidents in association with cell phone use is the same incidence associated with DUI drunk driving.

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