by Charles Buchanan | Jan 29, 2012 | Health, Personal Injury, Workers Compensation
The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported early Saturday morning that a truck driver crashed into the Schneider National facility in Edwardsville, IL igniting a fire. The condition of the trucker and the specifics of the crash were not immediately known. As it turns out, the crash was only part of a sequence of events that [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 23, 2012 | Benefits, Impairment Rating, Injury Claims, Injury Rating, Payments, Personal Injury, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Workers' Compensation can help truckers pay bills after an injury. We continue our series this week on “Paying Bills After an Injury” by discussing workers’ compensation benefits. Our last post in this serious gave an overview of the "no fault" workers' compensation system. This week we provide more information about the workers' compensation benefits [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 19, 2012 | Benefits, Impairment Rating, Injury Claims, Injury Rating, medical care, Personal Injury, Workers Compensation
Workers' Compensation can help truckers pay bills after an injury. We continue our series this week on “Paying Bills After an Injury” by discussing workers’ compensation as one of the options. In the coming weeks, we will post more detailed articles on the workers’ compensation process and benefits. In this two-part introductory post, we provide [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 10, 2012 | Accidents, Health, Safety, Uncategorized
Our Hurt Trucker blog series on a trucker’s health continues this week with a discussion of sleep apnea, which has received a lot of publicity in the trucking industry in recent years. Sleep apnea is a condition in which a narrowing or closure of the upper airway during sleep causes repeated sleep disturbances, leading to poor [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 6, 2012 | Injury Claims, medical care, Personal Injury, Tips, Uncategorized
Last month we discussed the unique challenges that professional truck drivers face paying their bills after an injury. The first option we will discuss in this series is a personal injury lawsuit. Personal injury lawsuits can be very important for injured truckers. If you have been injured by the wrongdoing of someone other than your employer, [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 2, 2012 | Accidents, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Highways, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Ray LaHood, Safety
On January 3rd, 2012, Truckers Will be Banned from Using Handheld Cell Phones The cell phone ban goes into effect on January 3, 2012 and will impact an estimated 4 million drivers nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Groups within the trucking industry have expressed mixed reviews of the new federal rule prohibiting [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Dec 29, 2011 | Accidents, Attorney, Health, Lawyer, medical care, Personal Injury, Safety, Tips
Professional trucking is a rewarding job, but it is also very dangerous. Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics prove this point. The transportation and warehousing sector (which includes professional truck drivers) accounts for more job related deaths than almost all other sectors (631 deaths in 2010 alone). Work injuries to truck drivers and other [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Dec 22, 2011 | #TDSMC, Kansas City, Social Media
As the New Year approaches the team at Hurt Trucker wants to thank the entire trucking community for their hard work every day. Professional truckers and their support network, including family members, friends, trucking advocates, unions, websites and online networks, help keep truck drivers motivated throughout each and every year. We look forward to a [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Dec 13, 2011 | Injury Claims, insurance, Laws, Lawyer, medical care, Payments, Personal Injury, Tips
How do hurt truckers pay their bills? The two questions most often asked by injured truck drivers are: (1) how do I pay my bills and support my family when I cannot work and (2) how do I pay for medical care? These can be very difficult issues for injured truckers. In most states, an [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Aug 24, 2011 | Arkansas, Bella Vista, Construction, Fort Smith, Highways, Joplin, Kansas City, MHTC, Missouri, Safety
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) recently approved highway construction resulting in the upgrading of the U.S. 71 corridor between Kansas City and Joplin to interstate standards by the end of 2012. The upgraded interstate would have the designation I-49. The Missouri Department of Transportation believes the proposed improvements will “enhance economic opportunities and [...]
