As of December 4, 2015, pursuant to the FAST Act of 2015, much of the information previously available on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) website related to a trucking company’s safety performance will no longer be displayed publicly. This will prevent easy access to the public and to others who want to
Morgan Adams Selected as 2015 MidSouth SuperLawyer for Truck Accident Litigation
I am pleased to announce that I have once again been selected to the 2015 MidSouth Super Lawyers list. This is an exclusive list, recognizing no more than five percent of attorneys in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
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MAP-21 Change: Companies MUST Prevent Bad Truck Drivers from Driving
MAP-21 made significant changes in the trucking industry regulatory scheme. One change is that Section 32307 of MAP-21 was amended to prohibit employers from allowing employees to drive when the employer knows or should reasonably know that the the driver is disqualified,or when the employee’s driver’s license was suspended, revoked, or canceled. This final rule,
Spoliation Letter Updated – Version 5
Every so often I need to revise and update my standard spoliation letter (a letter telling the trucking company to save evidence that shows who is, and is not, at fault for a wreck). In part because of changes in the trucking industry, in part because it can always be made better.
In this latest
Qualcomm Sells Omnitracs Trucking Division to Vista Equity Partners
Semiconductor technology firm Qualcomm Inc. said it has sold its transportation and logistics business, Omnitracs, to Vista Equity Partners for $800 million. This includes the Commercial Motor Vehicle tracking or "telematics" systems.
The acquisition by Vista Equity Partners will include all Omnitracs operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America as well as
Swift Trucking Sanctioned Again for Destroying Evidence
Swift, like many trucking companies, has a history of destroying evidence that shows they were at fault for a wreck. I have posted on this previously. That is one of the reasons it is important to hire a lawyer as soon as possible when you have a trucking case.
Recently, in an Arkansas case, the trial
Increasing Insurance Limits on Tractor Trailers – Long Overdue!
I have previously posted on how inadequate current insurance limits are on tractor trailers. In that blog post I stated (regarding the minimum $750K limits being inadequate for catastrophic wrecks, limits having not been increased in almost 3 decades):
If you go to any present value calculator on the Internet and use a 4%
Discovery in Trucking Cases – E-ZPass and PrePass
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
Morgan Adams Named 2012 SuperLawyer for Personal Injury
Morgan Adams is selected as a Mid-South Super Lawyer for 2012.
Super Lawyers (a Thomson Reuters publication) is a listing of outstanding lawyers in the Mid-South including lawyers from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Super Lawyers has an extensive election process that involves peer nominations, evaluations and third-party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12
Wall Street Journal States Trucking Industry Short 20,000 Drivers
The Wall Street Journal noted today (July 16, 2012, page C1) that the trucking industry is currently short 20,000 drivers. The ATA has estimated that by 2014 the industry will be 111,000 drivers short – a fact I blogged about HERE back in 2007.
The only reason the current shortage isn’t worse is the economy