If you or someone you love has been the victim of a truck-related accident, it is my hope that this book will provide you with the information you need if you're considering a lawsuit. Truck drivers are driving vehicles that weigh more than 20 times your average sedan. If that isn't enough, trucking cases are vigorously defended by powerful companies and their insurers who begin to build their defense while most trucking crash victims are just coming out of surgery. As the victim of a truck crash, you deserve the same swift, knowledgeable and vigorous representation. Unlike many law firms, Shannon Law Group is not a settlement mill. We are trial lawyers and that means we have the opportunity to tell our clients' stories-and not to insurance companies-but to a jury of twelve people, making certain that the victim's story is heard. In this book, you will learn how vital it is to: Engage an Attorney as Early as Possible; Avoid Talking to Insurance Companies; Begin to Collect Items for Trial; Be Smart About Social Media; Collect Medical Records and Bills for your Attorney; Memorialize Your Experiences in a Memo to Your Attorney; Check Your Insurance Policy for Medical Payment Coverage

The Truckers Nightmare enters a darker side of the events that take place in the trucking world. Things can change so drastically without a moments notice. The simple task of delivering a load to a customer could very quickly turn into a series of events where one could possibly be facing his own demise. The events in these stories are about the lives, hardships, and unexpected, life changing circumstances that occur, in the lonely life of a driver out on the road. The fatigue, the stress, and the insanity that can consume the very life and can even go as far as to destroy one's family are written in these pages. The long hours, unexpected break downs, delays, and time away from home, along with the lonely nights and even longer days, test the men and women, bringing them to a point, in many cases of no return. Many of them allow the insanity that consumes them to run rampant in their lives, while others become victims of circumstances, unaware of the consequences involved. Others become victims of their environment, not being able to have a say in what happens to them. The stories in this series are each written with its own unexpected story line and twists to throw the reader off.

The Trucker's Nightmare Continues will pull you into the darkest reaches of a truck driver's mind. Every experience draws you deeper into the twisted lives of those involved in this industry. This is a world where truck drivers, prostitutes, homeless people, and some of the everyday people have to face situations beyond their control. Storms, thieves, plagues, death and life all bring about unexpected and horrific results, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Many of the secrets are kept from the public's eye to keep some semblance of peace and security in this country, as the lives of those involved are drastically changed forever, or are prematurely ended. Every horrific story in this second book of the series continues to bring the reader into the secret lives of the people hidden from the rest of the world, only to be left pondering what had happened in the end. The lives of those living in the nightmare as well as the reader will be forever altered. The question of where the line of sanity and insanity in these stories have a tendency to blend into each other as each of the stories continue to grow, leaving everyone in a state of potential danger. The Trucker' Nightmare Continues will draw you deeper into the lifestyle of the men and women who keep this country running, and the dangers that they have to deal with, or bring into the world, on a day to day basis. As a result, your thinking will be altered. Some will take more caution in dealing with others, while some of you will throw caution out, challenging the trucking world to a challenge of life and death, simply to experience a small piece of the nightmare that exists out there. Either way, after reading this book, your life will be changed.

The Trucker's Nightmare Never Ends is the 3rd fictional book in a series involving the darker side of the trucking industry. Every story is unique in that they all are different from the other stories. Each one of them has its own unexpected twist to them, leaving the reader pondering what it was they had just read. From the fears that lurk in one's heart, including going into the dark secrets of the night, mixing things up with prostitutes, to deadly machines and into abandoned towns. Every story has its own web to weave as it draws the reader deeper into the darkest reaches of an industry that so few really can understand. Once you catch a glimpse inside, it will grab ahold of you and not let go. Even in psyching yourself up for what is written in these pages you will not be prepared for it. The stories from The Trucker's Nightmare series will stay with you for a long time. Some of them you will never forget. And your perception in how you look at our great American truck drivers may never be the same again.

Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasnÕt always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.ÊÊ The Big RigÊexplains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed truckingÕs labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

This is a book about truck driver's lives, risks, and views on safety. As "a "group, truckers represent a significant population of road users whose high-exposure driving creates a major challenge for safety. Research into the larger social, political, and economic forces that affect trucker's safety problems has been scarce. "The Trucker's World "comes to terms with the socioeconomic environment that contributes to breakdown in trucker safety and chronicles the lives and times of truckers as they try to make ends meet. It analyzes driver risk by exploring the reasons, reactions, and consequences of risk. The author approaches his task with a research question: Why is the average trucker continuously placed in conditions that, according to truckers, demand risky driving? As a result of direct experience with truckers and trucking, Rothe observes that truck drivers act as they do to gain autonomy over their work, freedom from control of others, and assurance of a reasonable livelihood. In order to maintain a sufficient income in the transportation market, even the most serious drivers perform tasks that often impinge on lethality and safety, not as blatant radicals or daredevils fighting the system, but as persons responding to the fear that they may lose their livelihood in trucking. The thrust in trucker safety has followed a victimization philosophy in which emphasis on interventions has been aimed directly at truckers. Rothe contends that safety programs would work better if they emphasized what influences, motivates, or encourages truckers to take chances on the road. With this in mind, he analyzes driver risk, vehicle maintenance, owner-operator, company driver, policing, home life, drugs and alcohol, government regulations, and hours of service as they are seen by truckers, industry officials, and others. Expanding our vision to encompass essential factors in the socioeconomic reality of the truck-driving culture. Rothe elucidates the far-reaching consequences that safety issues have for truckers, other road users, policymakers, and traffic safety educators.