Trucking crashes — catastrophic injury & wrongful death
Profits don't justify cheating the safety rules.
An 80,000-pound truck is only as safe as the decisions behind it — who was hired to drive it, how long they had been awake, what they were paid, and what the company knew before it handed over the keys. When those decisions are made to protect margin instead of people, the crash is not an accident. It is an outcome.
The system behind the crash.
Federal hours-of-service rules exist because fatigue kills. Driver-qualification files exist because history predicts risk. Yet the economics of modern trucking — rock-bottom rates, driver churn measured in weeks, dispatch and pay structures that reward staying on the road — push against every one of those rules.
Wall Street-run mega fleets churn through drivers precisely because experienced drivers cost more, and every shortcut shows up later on a highway. We build trucking cases from the company's own records: electronic logs and telematics, qualification and training files, dispatch and pay records, safety-meeting minutes, and the emails in between.
Working backward
Questions we investigate.
- 01Why was this driver on this road, at this hour, on this schedule?
- 02What did the carrier know at hiring — and what would a lawful review of the record have shown?
- 03What do the electronic logs, GPS pings, and camera data actually show — and does the paper story match?
- 04Who set the pay and dispatch structure, and what behavior did it reward?
- 05What happened to the truck, the data, and the driver's file in the days after the crash?
Cases like these, before.
- $40.5 million wrongful-death jury verdict against one of the largest trucking companies in the United States †
- Additional eight-figure recoveries in trucking and freight cases
- Reforms our cases helped drive: a driver cell-phone ban at a Fortune 500 company; inward-facing safety cameras at a large oilfield supplier
† Obtained by our attorney while practicing with a prior firm. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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