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Truck Accidents

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Truck Accidents

Louisiana Truck Accident Attorney Explains How Driver Distractions can Warrant a Claim (Part B)

Louisiana Truck Accidents Need To Be Well Documented

Accidents with big rigs, or 18-wheelers or tractor-trailers as they are called, can have devastating effects. The enormous size and weight of these large trucks means that occupants of passenger cars are likely to get seriously injured, if not killed. Serious truck crash injuries in Louisiana often include brain or spinal cord damage, and other injuries leading to long term impairment.

How do motor carriers react when one of their trucks caused a serious accident?

Injured victims and relatives of people killed in a serious large truck crash may hold the motor carrier liable and file six- or seven-figure claims. Handling hundreds of truck accident cases every year, motor carriers and their insurers have one goal: protect their finances and their balance sheet. After a major crash has been reported, they will normally send a team on the scene to:

Take photographs;
Talk to investigators and police officers;
Inspect the tractor-trailer for possible mechanical failure;
Manipulate witnesses into statements that favor them using leading questions;
Search the victim's record and medical history.

To them, it is critical to obtain the first and freshest information, always more credible than correcting statements made at a later stage.

Critically - and this is another reason why they are among the first to arrive at the scene - all documents and material evidence that can be held against them must be removed at once.

This includes not just the truck driver's cell phone and personal items, but also the company's and federal authorities' imposed documents normally kept in the truck.

All motor carriers are required by law to keep the following records for a certain time:

Daily driver report on vehicle inspection and certification of repairs: 3 months
Driver record of duty status (Log Book), indicating hours driving, on-duty and rest hours: 6 months
Negative alcohol and drug tests: 1 year
Motor carrier annual inspection report on record keeping: 14 months
Accident register: 3 years;
Driver Qualification File: complete record of driver's training, review, violations, and medical history: 3 years
Alcohol test results: 5 years.

Only an experienced Louisiana tractor-trailer accident attorney will know how to counter the tactics of motor carriers and their insurance companies, and save your claim after a serious Louisiana truck wreck. Contact the truck accident attorneys of the Young Firm in New Orleans immediately for a free, no-commitment evaluation of your case.