Truck crashes
A truck crash has a company behind it
The driver who hit you works for someone. That company has an insurer, a safety department and often a lawyer on the phone before the tow trucks leave.
Maricela sends a letter in the first days asking the company to keep the driver's logs, the truck's data and the dash camera video. Then she builds the case from what they show.
Trucks she takes on
Eighteen-wheelers to work pickups
Eighteen-wheelers
Long-haul rigs on I-37 and US-77. Hours-of-service logs and inspection records come first.
Oilfield and water haulers
Tankers and water trucks on county roads, often driven long shifts on tight schedules.
Delivery and box trucks
Route trucks and vans in town. The company's own policy may cover its driver.
Port and refinery traffic
Container and chemical haulers moving to and from the port, the ship channel and the refineries.
Questions
After a truck crash
Why does a truck case need a lawyer early?
Trucks record speed, braking and hours, and companies don't keep that data forever. A letter asking them to keep it should go out in days, not months.
Who pays in a truck crash?
Often the trucking company's insurer, and sometimes a second company that loaded, owned or maintained the truck. Each can carry its own policy.
The company's adjuster already called me. What now?
Be polite and don't give a statement. Take their name and number, and give them ours.
What if I was driving for work too?
You may have a workers' compensation claim and an injury claim against the trucking company. Tell us; they fit together.
Truck crash review
Call before the logs are gone
The sooner the letter goes out, the more the company has to keep. Calls and texts are free.
Case costs, like filing fees, medical records and expert reports, are separate from the fee. Maricela advances them and they're repaid from the recovery. If there's no recovery, you owe neither the fee nor the costs.