Truck & Commercial Vehicle Accidents

When the Vehicle That Hit You Weighs 80,000 Pounds

Semi-truck and commercial-vehicle crashes are not ordinary auto cases. They demand an attorney who knows federal trucking regulations, carrier liability, and how to move fast on evidence.

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What This Practice Covers

Trucking Cases Are Different

Semi-trucks, 18-wheelers and commercial fleets are governed by Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations. Logbooks, hours-of-service records, ECM (black-box) data and the carrier's safety history all become evidence — but only if a lawyer preserves them before the trucking company's insurer destroys them.

Semi-truck and tractor-trailer collisions
Box-truck, delivery and commercial-fleet wrecks
Driver fatigue and hours-of-service violations
Improperly loaded or overloaded cargo
Catastrophic and wrongful-death trucking claims

Evidence Disappears Fast — Call Today

Trucking insurers send teams to the scene within hours. Skid marks fade, dash-cam footage gets overwritten, logbooks get "lost." If you or a family member was hit by a commercial vehicle, call Marker Law immediately so we can preserve every piece of evidence.

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Straightforward answers to the questions Marker Law clients ask most often about this topic.

Trucks are regulated by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), which create extra duties (hours of service, maintenance, driver qualification) and extra sources of liability (the carrier, the broker, the maintenance company). Damages are higher because injuries are usually more severe, and insurance policy limits are much larger ($750K minimum federal, often $1M-$5M+).

The driver, the trucking company, the truck owner if different, the maintenance contractor, the cargo loader, and sometimes the manufacturer or broker. Identifying every responsible party early — and preserving the driver's electronic logbook (ELD) and the truck's onboard data — is critical.

Trucking companies routinely overwrite electronic logs, dashcam footage, and driver records within days of a crash. Marker Law sends a spoliation letter immediately to preserve this evidence — a step that can make or break the case.

Two years from the date of the crash. Wrongful death cases also have a two-year deadline. Evidence loss is the bigger urgency — start the case within weeks, not months.

Spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, multiple fractures, internal bleeding, amputations, and wrongful death. These are catastrophic cases that demand full life-care planning and expert biomechanical or accident-reconstruction testimony.

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