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Business
Fighting tickets: Resources for finding legal representation
In addition to driver-centric legal resources, state and local bar associationsâ online or phone referral services also may yield good results.
December 29, 2016
Business
Fighting tickets: Donât forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record
While prospective employers/lessors arenât strictly required to use FMCSAâs PSP reports to view prospective driversâ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.
December 28, 2016
Business
How to fight traffic tickets, whether with or without legal help
There is more than one way to skin the cat when it comes to fighting tickets. While more than four in 10 Overdrive readers say they have seen success contesting a ticket without employing a lawyer to help, interviews reveal a different pattern.
December 27, 2016
Voices
Voices on the issues in post-crash litigation following June cover story
Readers respond to the issues around post-crash litigation, including strategies for prevention in the event that the worst happens.
July 5, 2016
Business
How to dodge the ambulance chasers
Since the advent of CSA, high-dollar jury awards for truck accident victims have been growing. This means higher risk and insurance costs, especially for independents.
June 20, 2016
Business
Lawyers are more dangerous on any day ending in âYâ
In which Wendy responds to a Texas lawyer who, with the help of the Dallas Morning News, âasserts that most everyone who took the past three days off is now back on the road, driving illegally to make up for lost time.â âŚ
June 10, 2016
Voices
POLL: Post-crash litigation â has it reached into your business?
Trends show awards/activity in the courts have been on the rise: Have you been involved as a defendant in post-crash civil litigation, whether you were at fault in the accident or not?
April 28, 2016
Channel 19
Round-up: Aggregating ambulance chasers, âabused driver syndrome?â, latest truck flasher
A bizarro report in the Detroit Free Press, an interesting recruiting message, and the latest press release from a fraud/victimsâ rights watchdog group run by a man with a fraud conviction in his past.
June 4, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: âDonât help the lawyers. Help us.â âReaders on insurance
In this podcast, readers weigh in on rising insurance costs, urging regulators and congress not to hike minimums, which might well serve only to line the pockets of attorneys and deleteriously affect the trucking business.
March 17, 2015
Channel 19
Itâs not quite the Maxim ad, but âŚ
A Nashville city bus or two or three has been wrapped with an ad from Bart Durham, the local ambulance chaser, highlighting ⌠I bet you can guess what.
January 24, 2015
Channel 19
Photos posted to Facebook net $1 million crash settlement
Ever posted a photo you took from the driverâs seat to Facebook? The plaintiffâs bar thanks you.
September 27, 2014
Channel 19
Citizen to accident lawyers: Lighten up on anti-truck ads
âHow many times a day do you hear on TV ads from lawyers making statements such as, âbig trucks can cause serious injuries?ââ So asked a reader, Bill Hughes, of the Tennessean newspaper, based in my home base of Nashville. I know the folks heâs talking about, of course, as Iâm sure do you in [âŚ]
September 28, 2011
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