On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | May 3, 2017 | Trucking Wreck Injury
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has effectively shut down a Georgia-licensed truck driver. The driver was responsible for a crash on November 20, 2016 in Virginia, after he ran into the back of a vehicle stopped in traffic. Several cars were...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Apr 11, 2017 | Trucking Wreck Injury
April is a month that shakes the students and faculty of Georgia Southern University. Back in 2015, the university lost five nursing students to a tractor-trailer accident. That loss changed the university’s community and the lives of those students’...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Apr 11, 2017 | Trucking Wreck Injury
Last time in our blog series What Is the Price of a Truck Accident?, we talked about the infamous 2015 eight vehicle pile-up on I-16. That crash took the lives of five Georgia Southern University students, and it changed the lives of not only the families of the...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Dec 5, 2016 | Appeals, Trucking Wreck Injury
Back in 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) wrote a rule that required all truckers to use an electronic logging device (ELD). This measure was meant to stop truckers from driving too long and endangering public safety. However, the...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Dec 1, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
In Gilmer County on October 13th, a bus was on its way to Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino in Murphy, North Carolina. It was carrying 48 seniors excited about having a fun time at the slot. However, their day of fun didn’t go as planned. Did a Bus and...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Nov 11, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
It was a normal evening on Interstate 20 as commuters drove home from work, then a chain reaction crash went off. Four tractor trailers collided with each other and shut down the entire eastbound side of the highway. Now a new federal law seeks to reduce the damage...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Oct 27, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
Parents all over Lowndes County got the scare of their lives when their cellphones rang on August 29th. That’s because their children were calling them to let them know that they were okay after a massive school bus crash. The collision was between an 18-wheeler...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Oct 19, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
The driver of a Total Transportation of Mississippi (TTM) truck was delayed in Ridgeland, Mississippi for 10 hours. By the time the tractor-trailer was ready to go, its driver was expected to drive through the night all the way to Savannah, Georgia. The truck never...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Jul 1, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
If you were driving along Macon Road near Midland on June 2nd, then you probably would have thought you were on the set of a science fiction movie. People dressed in hazmat suits were walking around and cleaning the ground to make sure everyone would be safe when they...
On behalf of McArthur Law Firm | Jul 1, 2016 | Trucking Wreck Injury
If you were driving along Macon Road near Midland on June 2nd, then you probably would have thought you were on the set of a science fiction movie. People dressed in hazmat suits were walking around and cleaning the ground to make sure everyone would be safe when they...
