Truck and Commercial Vehicle
Collisions with tractor-trailers, delivery vans, and company fleets, where federal safety regulations and a corporate defendant change how the case is built.
A trucking case is a records case. Electronic logging data, the driver qualification file, maintenance and inspection history, drug and alcohol testing, dispatch instructions, and the engine control module. Each has a retention period, and each is gone when it expires.
We serve a spoliation letter immediately and, where warranted, move for inspection of the vehicle before it is repaired or sold. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations give a well-run case leverage a car claim never has.
What we do on a case like this
- Spoliation letter out within days
- Logging, telematics, and maintenance records demanded before purge
- Carrier, broker, and shipper liability all evaluated
- Accident reconstruction retained where fault is contested
Questions and Answers
Q.A representative from the trucking company called me. Is that normal?+−
It is standard practice, and they are gathering information for the defense. You do not have to speak with them, and it is better that you do not.
Q.Why does it matter that it was a commercial truck?+−
Coverage and rules. Commercial policies are far larger than personal ones, and federal safety regulations create duties a private driver never had, which gives a prepared case real leverage.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case turns on its own facts, and nothing on this page is legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship.
Also in Vehicle Collisions
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Motorcycle Accidents
Rider claims, including the assumption that the motorcyclist must have been speeding or splitting lanes recklessly. We take that assumption apart with evidence.
Rideshare Injury
Claims for passengers, other drivers, pedestrians, and rideshare drivers themselves, where which policy pays depends on what the app was doing at that moment.
Talk to an attorney before you talk to the adjuster.