If you were hurt in a California truck or 18-wheeler crash, you generally have two years from the date of the wreck to file a personal-injury lawsuit under CCP § 335.1. Trucking cases involve federal regulations (FMCSA), commercial insurance, and corporate defendants - get a real attorney involved early. Devoted Injury Lawyers handles California truck cases statewide. No fee unless we win.
Truck cases have a hard preservation clock. The carrier's data, dash cams, and logs can be overwritten within days. These seven steps protect both your health and the evidence.
Truck crashes produce serious injuries that may not surface until hours later. An ER visit creates the medical record your case will lean on for the next 18 months.
The USDOT number painted on the cab is your key to identifying the carrier. Photograph the trailer numbers, hazmat placards, license plate, and the visible damage from multiple angles.
Final rest positions, debris fields, and skid marks are the inputs an accident reconstructionist needs. If you can wait for CHP, do.
Truck crashes draw witnesses. Their accounts are often the difference between a contested-liability case and a clean one.
Carrier-side insurance adjusters will call within 24 hours. You are not required to give a recorded statement. Decline and call a lawyer first.
Towing invoices, rental cars, mileage to medical appointments, missed-work records, photos of bruises and scars as they evolve.
We send a written preservation letter to the carrier the same day, demanding retention of ELD data, driver logs, dash-cam video, maintenance records, and post-crash drug-test results. Without that letter, the evidence is often gone.
ELD data, driver logs, and dash-cam footage are routinely overwritten within 7 days. A written preservation letter on day one is one of the cheapest things you can do to protect a truck case.
Commercial trucks carry $750k–$1M+ liability policies, often layered with excess coverage. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Past results disclaimer. Prior results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict a similar outcome in your case.
Most California commercial truck traffic concentrates on a handful of corridors - the I-5 spine from the border to Redding, I-10 east through the Inland Empire, I-15 to Las Vegas, I-80 through the Bay Area, and I-710 north out of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. According to the FMCSA Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts, California consistently leads the nation in commercial-vehicle crashes by volume. We handle cases on each of these corridors and across the state.
Statewide Case Evaluations, 24/7. We'll get the preservation letter out today and tell you what evidence we need to grab before it's overwritten.
Call (888) 760-2529 or send the form. A licensed California attorney calls back, usually within the hour.
Same day. We demand the carrier retain ELD data, dash-cam footage, driver logs, maintenance records, and post-crash drug-test results.
Investigation, expert reconstruction, demand, negotiation. If the carrier won't pay fair value, we file and litigate.
Names withheld for privacy, facts preserved for transparency. Each case is unique - yours included.
A high school student sustained serious injuries requiring arm surgery after being involved in a rollover accident as a passenger. The incident occurred while exiting Interstate 5.
Read the case study→During an evening bike ride in Twentynine Palms, a father was struck by a distracted driver who ran a stop sign, leaving him with multiple fractures and requiring several surgeries.
Read the case study→Walking his French bulldog in the morning, our client was suddenly attacked by a Cane Corso. He sustained multiple injuries, including bite wounds to his thigh, a chipped tooth, forehead abrasions, and a back injury.
Read the case study→Past results disclaimer. Prior results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict a similar outcome in your case. Each case is different and depends on its unique facts, the applicable law, and the available insurance coverage.
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