What Causes Truck Accidents in Fort Worth
Almost every time we get a call, it’s because a company decided to break the rules and put its own profits ahead of everyone else’s safety. A carrier kept a tired driver on the road. A company skipped a brake inspection to keep the truck moving. A broker hired the cheapest carrier it could find and ignored its safety record. A shipper overloaded the trailer.
From the Video: What We Find
“It shouldn’t surprise me when I find someone’s been texting and driving.”
Federal rules cover who can drive a commercial truck, how long they can drive before resting, how the truck has to be maintained, and how cargo has to be secured. When a company breaks those rules to save time or money, it puts everyone on I-35W and Loop 820 at risk. Common causes include driver fatigue, speeding through construction zones and congestion, distraction, brake failures, and unsafe loading.
Who Can Be Held Responsible for a Fort Worth 18-Wheeler Accident
Some firms stop at the driver. We ask what allowed the crash to happen.
Depending on the facts, responsibility can reach:
- The driver, for fatigue, speeding, distraction, or impairment.
- The trucking company, for hiring unqualified drivers, skipping maintenance, or pushing impossible schedules.
- A freight broker, for hiring a carrier it knew or should have known was unsafe.
- The shipper or loading company, if the trailer was overloaded or loaded improperly.
- A manufacturer or maintenance vendor, if a defective or badly repaired part caused the crash.
In Texas, each company found responsible generally pays only its own share of the fault, so finding every party that played a role is often the difference between a settlement that covers your future and one that doesn’t.
What Our Fort Worth Truck Accident Lawyers Do from the Moment You Call
Trucking companies often send their own rapid response teams to a crash within hours. Electronic logs, engine data, and dash camera footage can be overwritten on a schedule. So we move first. Early in the case, we send preservation demands to every company involved and start building the evidence ourselves.
From the Video: Building the Case
“That might mean hiring an accident reconstructionist to figure out speeds of the vehicles. It may mean finding video camera evidence from places that are nearby that captured it.”
We pull the truck’s engine control module data, the driver’s logs and qualification file, maintenance records, and the carrier’s safety history, and we compare GPS and fuel records against the logs to see how long the driver had really been working.
Texas Law for Fort Worth Truck Accident Claims
You generally have two years from the date of the crash to file a lawsuit in Texas, or two years from the date of death in a wrongful death case. But waiting costs you evidence long before the deadline arrives.
Insurers lean hard on Texas’s fault rule.
Your recovery is reduced by your share of the blame, and if you’re found more than 50% responsible, you recover nothing. That’s why trucking companies so often blame the other driver, and why proving what really happened is so much of what we do. In a death case, the surviving spouse, children, and parents can bring the claim.
Talk to a Fort Worth Truck Accident Lawyer Today
Every case is personal to us. We’ll listen to what happened, tell you where you stand, and fight for what you’re owed, not what you’re offered. The consultation is free, and you pay nothing unless we win.
Call (888) 493-1629 or send us a message. We meet clients at our Dallas office and represent families across Fort Worth and Tarrant County.
