Articles Tagged with pulpwood truck

Log trucks hauling tree-length loads of pulp wood to paper and fiberboard mills extending far beyond a trailer’s end present nasty hazards on rural Georgia’s highways. Drivers approaching log trucks from the rear or side on dark roads are at risk of being impaled or beheaded. Extensive experience has taught us the problems and some ways to deal with them, though we will not publish the “secret sauce” for insurance company representatives to see.

1. Inadequate insurance on Georgia log trucks.

Georgia law requires only $100,000 liability insurance for 18-wheeler log trucks with tree-length timber that operate only within Georgia’s state lines. This is grossly inadequate for catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Through decades of experience, we have found ways to locate other insurance coverages and multiply the potential recovery. In a recent log truck case in rural Georgia, we recovered sixteen times the truck’s insurance policy limit—$1.6 million—although the coverage on the truck was only $100,000.