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MORE IMPORTANT, THE LAWYER YOU EMAIL MAY ALREADY BE YOUR ADVERSARY'S ATTORNEY.
While Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. represents only injured persons, the circumstances of an accident may make someone as close as your spouse, your potential adversary.

Auditing of Logs
Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.

As with every essentially voluntary enforcement scheme (such as the tax code) without detailed and stringent audits, there would be no safeguard against cheating. Sadly, cheating is believed to be common place. Thus, if there weren't ways to at least corroborate the accuracy of logs, cheaters would do so with impunity. At least when the catastrophe of a truck out of control has injured the innocent, it is possible to double check the claimed hours worked, against the expense receipts and other paperwork which is generated in normal course of the industry. Thus, a detailed legal and accounting examination, may show that despite claims to the contrary, a contributing factor in the wreck, was a driver who broke federal and state regulations governing the maximum amount of hours he or she was allowed to drive.

However, as the opporutnity for cheating is so inherent in the system, it is not just the truckers themselves who have responsibility for such conduct, but the carriers, who ignored the inconsistency between their own internal records, and their drivers logs.

NEXT: Driver Fatigue Regulations

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For a full treatment of the topic of brain injury, and recovering adequate compensation for those who have survived such injury, please visit our other pages:

tbilaw.com - a general treatment of all types of brain injury, including severe brain injury and concussion, with a special focus on the legal aspects of recovering full and adequate compensation for such injuries. tbilaw.com has been at the cornerstone of our web advocacy for brain injury since we went online in 1996.

waiting.com - a page designed to assist those with issues regarding coma, especially in the acute phase when the doctors are saying "I just don't know."

vestibulardisorder.com - Addressing vertigo and dizziness resulting from trauma as well as information and resources for vestibular disorders.