Trucking companies will play games
If you’ve been involved in a truck wreck — no matter who is apparently at fault —the trucking company will dispatch a team of lawyers immediately. The primary purpose of this effort is to paint you as being at fault.
These companies are well-versed in a series of games intended to obscure anything that may have happened that might force them to accept responsibility for a commercial truck wreck.
The dirty tricks we’ve seen commercial trucking companies try include:
- Shred trucking logs against Rule 11 agreement
- Launch “black ops” to steal evidence before lawyers can arrive
- Delete or lose cell phones
- Turn off GPS tracking
- Re-set speed governors to 90 mph
- Falsify logs
- Falsify maintenance records
- Unplug odometers (this will also disconnect the speedometer)
- Hire cocaine users
- Hire drug traffickers
- Hire illegal aliens
- Remove pornography from trucks after wrecks
- Drive on bald tires
- Fail to adjust brakes
- Intimidate witnesses
- Loaded two or three times overweight
- Operate in dense fog
- Hire drivers with sleep apnea
- Failure to test for drugs
- Failure to test for alcohol
- Conceal texting while driving
- Illegal radar detectors
- Illegal u-turns
- Improperly mounted tires
- Loose wheels and axels
- “Companions” in cab of truck
- Meth and crack use
- Prostitution
If you’ve been involved in a wreck with a commercial truck of any kind — regardless of who appears to be at fault — please contact an attorney familiar with Texas’ personal injury laws right away.