by Andrew Buchanan | Aug 12, 2015 | Attorney, Highways
The Truckers Have Spoken! Con-Way truckers’ lives are about to become more comfortable while on the road with new safety features and comfort amenities being added to 635 of Con-Way’s 2015 model trucks nationwide. In response to driver surveys, Con-Way is adding new Kenworth and Freightliners featuring all new Automated Manual Transmissions (AMT’s) and Twin [...]
by Andrew Buchanan | Oct 29, 2012 | #TDSMC, Attorney, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Health, Kansas City, Lawyer, Owner Operators, Paul Taylor, Social Media, Twitter
Your attorneys here at Hurt Trucker are proud to have sponsored this year's Truck Driver Social Media Convention. We were able to attend on Sunday, and were also able to catch up on the entire convention through Twitter. For those of you who were unable to attend, we've compiled tweets of many highlights from the [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Mar 15, 2012 | Accidents, Attorney, Injury Claims, Medicaid, medical care, Payments, Social Security Disability, SSD, SSI, Supplemental Security Income, Uncategorized
Our first post on getting medical care after an injury discussed workers' compensation benefits. In this post, we discuss medical care benefits available under Medicaid. Hurt truck drivers face many obstacles in receiving medical care. Trucking companies often fire truckers who are injured and cannot work. When fired, the truck driver loses employment benefits, including health [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Mar 13, 2012 | Accidents, Attorney, Benefits, Federal law, Payments, Trucker rights, Uncategorized
In our last post, we we discussed Social Security Disability (SSD) as a way for hurt truck drivers to pay bills when they cannot work. In this segment of "Paying Bills After An Injury", we discuss a similar program called Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSI is a federal government benefit program that pays monthly benefits [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Mar 5, 2012 | Accidents, Attorney, Benefits, Federal law, Injury Claims, insurance, Payments, Trucker rights
In our prior post on “Paying Bills After an Injury,” we discussed private disability insurance. We continue the segment in this post discussing Social Security Disability benefits. Many people think that Social Security is just a retirement program. That is not the case. Under certain circumstances, Social Security also provides disability benefits to those who [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Feb 28, 2012 | Accidents, Attorney, Benefits, Employment law, Health, Injury Claims, insurance, medical care, Payments, Personal Injury, Trucker rights, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Does your trucking company treat you like their most valuable resource?Has anyone else come across a trailer with this message? We recently snapped this picture just outside of Joplin, Missouri. The trailer has an important message - truck drivers really are the most valuable resource of any trucking company. Without truck drivers, goods wouldn't move, [...]
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