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CMV Law: Vehicle Lighting, Backing & Turning Left

Vehicle Lighting and Illumination Requirements All vehicles are required to use headlights from a half-hour after sunset until a half-hour before sunrise, when it is raining, and “at any other time when there is not sufficient visibility to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance…

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CMV Law: Driving Safely In Georgia

Speeding, Driving Too Fast for Conditions, Impeding Traffic Flow, and Speed in Work Zones The General Assembly has both codified specific speed limits and also enacted catch-all restrictions on speed that are based on prevailing conditions like weather, obstructions, traffic, and so forth. All motorists are prohibited from driving “at…

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CMV Law: The Georgia CDL Manual

Combination Vehicles, Tankers, Hazardous Materials, and School Buses While less uncommon than those involving 18-wheelers, cases involving combination vehicles with more than one trailer, tankers, or school buses do arise. These vehicles are often heavier and longer than a typical vehicle, and in the case of tankers, frequently contain hazardous…

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CMV Law: Lease and Interchange

Lease and Interchange The lease of CMVs, primarily the tractors or “power units,” constitute a significant aspect of many if not most trucking-related personal injury claims. Abuses in the trucking industry in the 1950’s, such as motor carriers that leased or hired “gypsy” independent contractor drivers, who owned their own…

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CMV Law: Recordkeeping

Recordkeeping: Overview Part 390 contains a set of requirements for recordkeeping that may provide a roadmap to potential discovery, as well as a spoliation argument should the motor carrier be found to have destroyed the records. The recordkeeping requirements apply to the entire subchapter, which encompasses all the FMCSRs. Recordkeeping…

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