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ELECTRONIC LOGS DEBATE * USA - Can Stop Truck Accidents
Tampa,FL,USA -InjuryBoard.com -3 Sept 2007: -- ... Some trucking firms repeatedly violate the rules and offer financial incentives to truck drivers to break the trucking safety rules. In fact most long distance 18 wheel truck drivers are paid by the mile not by the hour and thus have an incentive to drive longer distances even if that means driving longer or faster than the safety regulations allow. Paper logs are used to track the hours and miles that are driven by truckers on the highway. Unfortunately these paper logs can be forged, doctored and altered with ease. I have personally worked a truck accident case involving a large 18 wheeler and the written logs were so bad it was a joke. Apparently that driver could drive at the speed limit from Tennessee to Orlando, Florida in 12 hours with 8 hours of sleep included in that time. The driver also refused to take the mandatory post crash drug and alcohol test after being involved in a trucking versus auto accident...
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