Truck Accidents
Injured by a Commercial Truck?
A Skilled Utah Truck Accident Attorney Can Help You Recover
A crash with a semi-truck, delivery van, or commercial rig can leave you facing injuries, mounting medical bills, and a fight with a trucking company’s insurance team that started building its defense before you even left the hospital.
Why Hire a Truck Accident Attorney?
Truck accident claims are rarely as simple as a typical car accident. A commercial truck crash may involve the driver, the trucking company, a cargo loading company, or a vehicle manufacturer, and each one has an insurance carrier working to limit its liability. Federal trucking regulations, driver logs, maintenance records, and black box data all come into play, and that evidence can disappear quickly if no one moves to preserve it.
Having an experienced attorney on your side means someone is reviewing the evidence, identifying every party who may be responsible, and building a strategy to recover the compensation you are owed for your medical care, lost income, and pain and suffering.
Truck Accident Attorneys
If you were injured in a truck accident in Utah, the consequences can affect your health, your income, and your family for years to come. Our truck accident attorneys know how to investigate a commercial crash, stand up to trucking company insurers, and fight for the full recovery you deserve.
Drawing on extensive courtroom and trial experience, Cory represents clients injured in semi-truck, tractor-trailer, and commercial vehicle accidents, pursuing maximum compensation from negligent drivers, trucking companies, and insurers.
Cory brings broad litigation experience to every case, with a background spanning personal injury, family law, real estate, construction defect, and constitutional law.
How Much Does a Truck Accident Attorney Cost?
No attorney fee unless we win. Like all of our personal injury cases, truck accident claims are handled on contingency, even when multiple companies and insurers are involved, so you don’t pay an attorney fee unless we win.
Are You Dealing with a Truck Accident Injury?
Commercial trucking is a heavily regulated industry, and when a trucking company or driver cuts corners, real people get hurt. We build cases around the specific negligence that caused your crash, including:
- Driver fatigue and hours-of-service violations. Federal rules limit commercial drivers to eleven hours of driving after ten consecutive hours off duty, and cap driving at 11 hours within a 14-hour on-duty window. Weekly limits are 60 hours over 7 days or 70 over 8, and fatigue is a contributing factor in roughly one in eight large-truck crashes.
- Distracted, drowsy, or impaired driving
- Speeding, following too closely, or aggressive driving in a vehicle that can weigh up to 20 times more than a passenger car
- Improperly loaded, secured, or overloaded cargo that shifts or spills
- Poor vehicle maintenance, worn brakes, or defective equipment
- Negligent hiring, training, or supervision by the trucking company
- Defective truck parts, including brakes, tires, or coupling systems
Because more than one party can be responsible for a truck accident, part of our job is to identify every business and individual whose negligence contributed to your crash, not just the driver behind the wheel.
What Compensation Can I Recover After a Truck Accident?
Depending on the facts of your case, you may be entitled to recover medical expenses, lost wages, future lost earning capacity, property damage, and compensation for pain and suffering. We will walk you through what your case may be worth after we have reviewed the evidence.
Injured in a Truck Accident?
We are here to help you carry the legal burden and recover what you are owed.
Contact us today to schedule a free, confidential consultation. No fees unless we win.
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Tooele & South Jordan: (435) 830-7577
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Frequently Asked Questions
What makes a truck accident claim different from a car accident claim?
Truck accident claims involve players and rules a typical car accident doesn’t: federal safety regulations, a trucking company’s insurance policy, and evidence like driver logs and black box data that has to be preserved quickly. Truck claims usually take more investigation, and often result in higher-value settlements, than a standard car accident case.
What federal regulations apply to the trucking company that hit me?
Commercial carriers are governed by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rules covering driver hours-of-service, vehicle maintenance, and driver qualification. A violation of these rules, such as a driver exceeding the eleven-hour daily driving limit, can be strong evidence of negligence in your claim.
How quickly do I need to act after a truck accident?
Utah’s general four-year filing deadline for injury claims still applies, but truck accidents carry their own urgency: federal retention rules are short, some as little as three to six months, and dashcam footage has no required retention period at all. Evidence can be lawfully destroyed before a claim matures unless someone moves to preserve it. The sooner an attorney can send a preservation letter, the better the odds that evidence still exists.
What if I believe the trucking company destroyed or altered evidence?
Tell your attorney immediately. Evidence such as driver logs, maintenance records, and electronic control module data can be lost or overwritten quickly after a crash. An attorney can send a preservation letter and take swift legal action to protect that evidence.
Why do trucking companies carry higher insurance limits than drivers?
Federal law requires commercial trucking companies to carry at least $750,000 for general freight and up to $5 million for hazardous loads, against a Utah personal auto minimum of $30,000 per person. Combined with the fact that truck crashes tend to cause more severe injuries and can involve multiple liable parties, this is often why truck accident settlements are larger than car accident settlements.