Companies that employ fleets of truck drivers – and the drivers themselves – are not above altering driving logs. They have motivation to alter or falsify logs so they don’t have to pay as much, or at all in the event a truck driver causes a wreck.
It's called the Move Over Law, and has recently been the muscle behind an emphasis campaign conducted by Washington State troopers. That's a fancy way of saying that they pulled over and ticketed a lot of violators of this law. Many people don't know there is a requirement to change lanes when approaching the scene of an accident or traffic stop, so read this post by Bill Coats Law of Bellingham, Washington about a traffic law you might not know you're breaking.
