regulations

I recently wrote a series of posts about common motor carrier compliance problems, the first of which was hours of service compliance. The purpose of this post is to consider the legal consequences that arise from a commercial driver’s non-compliance with hours of service regulations. What’s troublesome for me is not when a driver’s logsheet is non-compliant on its face. In fact, that’s a very easy problem to confront during litigation. At that point, you can call your client and say, “Hey, our driver has over his driving limit when the accident happened. The plaintiff is going to try to argue that...