one of the most important events that

can occur is if you’re involved in a

crash

with a commercial vehicle of some type

it’s extremely important if you’re

involved in a crash with a commercial

vehicle to understand what is happening

at

the company with the commercial vehicle

and what I mean by that is this

by personal example I told you my own

mother was killed by a concrete mixer

truck my family did not learn about my

mother’s death for six hours during that

six hours of course my mom was killed

the commercial driver who killed my mom

his first call was to the safety

director right of his company the truck

that killed my mom their safety director

their accident crash team was on the

scene talking to Witnesses interfacing

with police officers and impacting the

investigation

within an hour hours before my family

ever even knew my mom was killed and

when we were told she was killed we

weren’t even told that she was killed by

a commercial vehicle we were told she

was struck by a car we didn’t find out

until the next day meanwhile when we did

find out you know that truck company had

negotiated with the police to allow the

truck company to drive the concrete

mixer truck back to their own property

and to keep it there and to pull out the

electronic data a lot of people don’t

know there’s black box data just like in

Airlines black spot black box data on

commercial vehicles much more robustly

in most cases than private passenger

vehicles this data you when you drive

you can erase that data okay so what I’m

trying to explain to you is that when

you are involved in a crash with a

commercial vehicle there there is a

professional response that is likely

happening on the other side of the crash

maybe before your family is even

informed that it happened

and certainly there’s a big head start

on the investigation and proof of fault

and trying to uh to persuade Witnesses

and so forth from these industries then

you can muster while you’re just

learning you’re just rushing to the

hospital to try to be with your loved

one right and so

we talked earlier about fleeting

evidence that’s true evidence does get

away but understand with commercial

vehicles there should be there may be

drive cam evidence there may be

drivers logs that dictate how long was

the driver on the road there maybe

driver fatigue involved there’s a

requirement under federal law that

there’s driver drug testing I was just

talking to a a family where their son

was killed in a head-on collision with a

commercial truck where the police

department didn’t even require the

driver to go get this mandatory federal

drug test well you know what if we get

involved early enough and in that case

we didn’t if we got involved early

enough I would have been on the phone

telling that police officer you have to

you need to go make this happen to make

sure that the drug testing is performed

so there’s a myriad these these

commercial truck commercial vehicle

because it’s not just semi trucks

there’s a lot of commercial vehicles out

there that are smaller than semi trucks

commercial truck crashes

are a very unique

and important circumstance that warrant

a great urgency to retain a lawyer

because I promise you there’s a

professional investigation that’s

occurring on the other side where

there’s millions of dollars at stake and

big commercial entities and you need

somebody on your side fighting for you