Jeremy Reymer, CEO and founder of DriverReach, was joined Thursday by a champion for the industry, Doug Marcello, chief legal officer of Bluewire and shareholder with Saxton & Stump law firm.
Truck drivers take risks each day delivering food to grocery stores, medical supplies to pharmacies, fuel to gas stations and just about everything else that’s required to keep society running smoothly.
But, when accidents occur involving semi-trucks, too often those same truck drivers are almost...
Safety officials want brakes on braking mandate
Proposed rulemaking on automatic emergency braking (AEB) introduced in June by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is getting more pushback from a coalition of state law enforcement officials and brake manufacturers that argue more dialogue is needed before moving forward.
To illustrate some of the math that impacts government rulemaking, both the...
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Iowa lawmakers are considering legislation aimed at providing liability protection for trucking...
On Feb. 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck ordered a 49 cent cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive-thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
What happened next forever changed trial jury awards and has had a lasting impact on multiple industries across the U.S., especially commercial transportation.
Liebeck, who was in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car, spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin.
The 79-year-old woman was taken to a hospital, where she was treated...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-spilled-hot-coffee-30-years-ago-changed-trucking-industry
A Texas appeals court has reversed a $7.4 million verdict against a trucking company, its owner and one of its drivers after evidence presented at the trial didn’t support the jury’s findings.
Killeen, Texas-based Even Better Logistics LLC and its owner, Michelle Cora Croom, can’t be held liable for negligent hiring, training or supervision of driver Dennis Rayner based on the evidence presented at trial, a panel of the Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso said Wednesday.
“We set aside the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-court-reverses-trucking-accident-verdict
In February 2017, Kathryn Armijo was struck and killed following a head-on collision involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 just outside Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A two-week jury trial in 2019 ended with a $40.5 million award against the mega-carrier, which trained the driver through its affiliated driver-training school. The driver had been on the job for just eight days when, the court documents detail, he crossed four lanes of traffic and a concrete median before striking Armijo’s car.
The...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nuclear-verdicts-measuring-exposure-and-managing-risk
Ans Rana has sued Amazon, claiming that an Amazon Delivery Service Provider (DSP) driver working for Harper Logistics in Georgia ran into his vehicle, leaving him with serious brain and spinal cord injuries and facing an uncertain future.
The details of the 24-year-old’s case claim the van’s driver was rushing to meet unrealistic delivery timelines, but it goes deeper than that. Generally, Amazon, which is facing 119 lawsuits involving injuries sustained with Amazon or DSP vehicles filed just...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/last-mile-liability-and-the-reputational-harm-shippers-risk
A Texas jury awarded $730 million on Monday to the family of a 73-year-old woman who was killed in a 2016 collision with a tractor pulling a flatbed trailer carrying an oversized load.
Toni Combest was killed Feb. 21, 2016, in Titus County, Texas, near the town of Mount Pleasant, when her vehicle collided with a truck operated by Landstar Ranger Inc. hauling a 197,000-pound propeller for a Navy nuclear submarine across a bridge.
According to court documents, the propeller was being transported...
Commercial auto insurance, which includes trucking, lost money in 2020. And yet a new report by insurance rating and benchmark company AM Best still declared last year’s performance as “the best underwriting results” in several years.
Improved performance was recorded “across a number of key metrics, although the line still incurred an underwriting loss overall,” Best wrote in a recently released report.
But the report noted that the improvement last year was driven in part by the sharp drop in...