Every so often I need to revise and update my standard spoliation letter (a letter telling the trucking company to save evidence that shows who is, and is not, at fault for a wreck). In part because of changes in the trucking industry, in part because it can always be made better.

In this latest

Swift, like many trucking companies, has a history of destroying evidence that shows they were at fault for a wreck. I have posted on this previously. That is one of the reasons it is important to hire a lawyer as soon as possible when you have a trucking case.

Recently, in an Arkansas case, the trial

Trucking companies, as corporations, can only act though people. In trucking cases companies will often hire experts that give the company the answer they want (That the company isn’t responsible and it is the truck accident victims fault) rather than the truth. In many cases evidence is also allowed to be destroyed, even when the company knows

Knight Transportation has been found guilty of destroying evidence. Destruction of evidence is typical in the trucking industry and a prime reason you need to hire a lawyer ASAP.

In the case at hand the federal judge in Texas stated:

[The Driver’s] flight from the accident scene and Knight’s hasty replacement of the truck’s tires are

Every so often I need to revise and update my standard spoliation letter (a letter telling the trucking company to save evidence). In part because of changes in the industry, in part because it can always be made better.

In this latest version I fix some typo’s, add in some FMCSR cites, and I added a section about the

Knight Transportation was sanctioned by the Federal District Court in Texas for the destruction of evidence, called spoliation in legal circles. This happens frequently in trucking cases after accidents, and is major reason why you should hire a lawyer as soon after a wreck as you can find an experienced tractor trailer lawyer (See my

Spoliation letters require trucking companies to preserve evidence that shouldn’t be, but often is, destroyed after a wreck. While the trucking companies know they should put a litigation hold on documents that will show whether they caused a wreck, they generally destroy this evidence if they know they are negligent. I have blogged repeatedly on this subject in past posts.

Why do trucking

Swift Transportation, like other trucking companies, destroys evidence. Whether a trucking company calls it a document retention policy, purging files of old records, or they have some other description for the act, the fact is people who trust the trucking company’s insurance adjuster to "be fair" are being lied to as the company is actively destroying documents.

When trucking companies know there