The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s regulation requiring electronic logging devices (ELD) is scheduled to be published in the Friday, March 28, 2014, edition of the Federal Register.
The new Hours of Service (HOS) regulations go into effect today. In many ways these regulations are simply the old, pre-President Bush, regulations with some minor changes. Nonetheless, you can expect the trucking industry to be up in arms. I have posted on the new HOS previously HERE
The outrage is primarily because the trucking…
I have been talking to some of the finest trial lawyers across the United States with about how they handle trucking cases and issues in the trucking industry. I have asked a number of them provide blog posts and will add guest blogs from them as I receive them.
Nelson Tyrone is a tractor trailer accident…
One of the things you do when handling a trucking case, whether as a plaintiff or a defense lawyer, is to audit the drivers logs to determine if the driver was over hours and driving in a fatigued state. I have blogged on fatigued driving extensively in the past. A key in auditing logs is to get all…
I have been fortunate to work with many great lawyers around the country on Truck Accident, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury cases. One such lawyer is Pete Everett of Fairfax, Virginia. Pete Everett, a great trucking lawyer who has a breathtaking knowledge of traumatic brain injuries, sent me the following information on a new sleep apnea study in the Australian trucking…
I thought the new Hours of Service (HOS) Regulations made sense, and that there wouldn’t be much controversy about the new regulations. After all, the new regulation just put back into place the old rule. The old rule required drivers of 80,000 pound tractor trailers to stop after driving 10 hours. The law was changed under President Bush…
The FMCSA and the trucking industry knows how dangerous sleep apnea is for a truck driver. The FMCSA states HERE that:
Staying awake means staying alive. Sleep apnea is a major contributor to daytime drowsiness—a condition that could prove deadly for commercial truck drivers and everyone sharing the road with them. It is a condition where…
Ringgold, Ga., widow Cindy Whitaker lost her husband, brother and niece in 2009 when a bucket truck hit their vehicle head-on.
Now she’s pushing for tighter federal regulations for truckers, even as the trucking industry points to federal statistics indicating that America’s roads
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FMCSA ordered JBS Carriers Inc., of Greeley, Colo., to install Electric On Board Recorders (EOBR’s) after the agency’s western service center found the company “in serious violation of federal HOS rules and commercial driver’s license requirements,” FMCSA said in a statement. The ruling applies to all 700 trucks in the JBS fleet.
The order announced…
Supporting documents have long been required to ensure drivers remained within hours of service and were not driving in a fatigued state. These documents, when compared to the drivers log books, would prove whether the driver was where he said he was, when he said he was, doing what he said he was. For example…