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How Self Driving Trucks Affect You
Self-driving and electric cars just can't stop making headlines lately. Amazon invested in self-driving startup Aurora earlier this year. Waymo, Daimler, GM, along with startups like Zoox, have all launched or are planning to launch driverless taxis, many of them...
Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Are Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
In larger cities like Houston, Phoenix and San Francisco, drivers have been sharing busy roads with autonomous delivery vehicles for months now but in Ann Arbor, Mich., the creators of a new autonomous vehicle have designed their robot to operate on local streets —...
Gov. DeSantis Signs CS/HB 311
Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on June 13, 2019 that will drastically expand the testing and use of autonomous vehicles in Florida. This bill will remove unnecessary obstacles that hinder the development of autonomous vehicle technology and solidifies Florida’s...
Self-Driving Semi Truck Tested on Tampa Expressway
A startup you’ve more than likely never heard of but will be hearing more about in the future took a driverless semi-truck on a road test in Tampa, Florida earlier this month. Starsky Robotics’ technology controls acceleration, braking, and steering, but the...
Tractor Trailer & Commercial Truck Crashes Are On The Rise in Florida
Commercial Truck Accidents are on the rise in Florida according to the The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV). They report that during the first month of 2019, there were more than 3,000 commercial vehicle crashes in the state of Florida....
High School Student Killed, Three Others Hospitalized in School Bus Collision
A Lafayette County high school student was pronounced dead while three other teenagers have been hospitalized following a crash involving a school bus on the morning of March 29, 2019. The school bus was carrying 23 Lafayette County students and was traveling...
Truck Accident Attorney Joe Camerlengo Receives Top Trucking Certification
Board Certification In Truck Accident Law – The True Measurement For Truck Accident Attorneys There are now 13 attorneys in the United States achieving “Board Certification” in truck accident law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Joe Camerlengo attorney at The...
NYC Councilman Wants Cameras on Sides of School Buses
New York City is calling for cameras on the side of school buses that can record impatient drivers that recklessly drive around school buses using sidewalks. This is following two such incidents recently in Brooklyn. “New Yorkers are always in a rush. That's why we...
School Bus Safety
School Bus Safety Students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a bus instead of traveling by car. That’s because school buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road; they’re designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in...
Tips For Driving A Semi-Truck In Winter
The Truck Accident Law Firm shares this article on safe driving tips for tractor trailers and all vehicles in winter conditions. Following this advice just may save a life. BY ALAN WROBEL In eight years as a truck driver, Alan Wrobel has driven 810,000 miles...
Bus and Semi-Truck Deadly Crash in New Mexico
As investigators sorted through the wreckage of a deadly bus crash along a New Mexico highway that killed several and left many others injured, a California trucking company and one of its drivers were accused of the deadly negligence. Firefighters and paramedics work...
School Bus Accident Statistics
School Bus Accident Statistics The National Highway Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) conducted a study of all fatalities and injuries regarding school buses. While their study points out that riding on school buses is much safer than...
The Truck Accident Law Firm Attorneys Participate in 18-Wheeler Behind the Wheel Class
Attorneys Joe Camerlengo, Michael Leizerman, and Joe Fried, from The Truck Accident Law Firm, participated in this Truck Driving class. Read more about the class experience below. By Melissa Scavelli, Source: KULR When it comes to driving a big rig seconds matter....
Traffic more hazardous than Jacksonville’s homicide rate
Author: Anne Schindler, First Coast News Published: 5:48 PM EDT August 13, 2018 Updated: 10:17 AM EDT August 14, 2018 A digital sign on the east side of the Hart Bridge puts a rare tally on the lethality of local roads. “Over 90 traffic deaths this year,” it reads....
Teach Your Teen Driver to Stay Out of a Truck’s ‘No Zone’
By Scott Felthousen, Drive It Home As experienced drivers, many of us have seen tractor-trailers with the message, “Stay Out of the No Zone,” wrapped around them during our travels. Still, many of us may wonder, what is the ‘No Zone’ and how can we help our teen...
Teens and Trucks: How to Approach Large Trucks at Intersections
By Scott Felthousen, from Drive It Home In my previous blog posts, I have focused on how you can help teach your teen to drive safely around a semi-truck on a multi-lane highway. In this blog, I would like to focus on how to handle situations while meeting trucks at...
Teens and Trucks: What they need to know to be safe
By Scott Felthousen, Drive It Home It is estimated there are more than 15 million trucks on the roads in the United States, making up about 6 percent of the total vehicles in the U.S. Still, according to Injury Facts 2017, they were involved in more than 4,000...
5 Florida Spring Break Ideas
You will find that most of the popular places in Florida will be overridden with partying young adults and snowbirds however we have some places in mind that just might spark a new Spring Break tradition for you and your loved ones. Florida is home to many popular...
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