Today, when truck drivers operate linked cargo containers on wheels, which we sometimes call "land locomotives", there is less room for error on our busy and crowded interstate highways. Your life and the lives of your family are at stake when the pursuit of profits by big shipping and corporate trucking companies require their drivers to go cross country in all manner of weather, with time deadlines and GPS tracking.

It may be important to get the drivers work log, verify the hours worked and to plot their route and calculate how long they were behind the wheel. There may also be valuable "black box" data from the truck's own computer, which may contain important information about the activity of the truck immediately before impact.

As a Florida truck accident lawyer I have sued many major roadway carriers, rental and leased trucks and big rig operators. The physics of driving a tractor trailer is important to explain to an insurance company adjuster or a jury. This includes stopping distances, visibility of the operator/driver, blind spot issues and driver fatigue.

In several of the cases, the trucker called the home office and they dispatched a lawyer and/or an accident investigator to the scene so rapidly that they were there almost before the police arrived, taking pictures and measurements. Some truck drivers are instructed how to act and behave in the event of an accident.

There are laws, regulations and rules about how many hours a large truck/ tractor trailer operator can drive without resting, and the economic pressure to deliver a load on time over large distances can tempt an independent contractor to be hasty.

Hazardous cargo transport has its own set of regulations, and your Florida truck accident lawyer should know about these.

As a Florida truck accident lawyer, I have a lot of respect for these long distance truckers, they work hard and many of them are quite careful and of course they are often highly skilled and experienced. But just as can be the case for every career or job, there are bad apples in every bunch, using drugs, alcohol, amphetamines and other substances to keep awake and alert. The difference is that when they drive impaired they are behind the wheel in a position of trust and privilege, which I think is similar to that of a passenger jet plane captain or pilot.

Because I have 30 years experience in explaining Florida truck accident injury claims to a jury, I am able to cross examine a wide variety of insurance company experts, such as accident reconstruction experts, biomechanical experts and engineers

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