TMP Master Class - Personal Injury Litigation
Most people think of truck accidents as something that happens on the interstate. In Peachtree Corners, that's only half the picture. This city grew up around Technology Park: over 500 acres of office, manufacturing, and distribution space that generates tens of thousands of jobs and a steady stream of commercial vehicle traffic on streets that were never built as freight corridors. That means a serious truck crash here is just as likely to happen at a neighborhood intersection or a warehouse access road as it is on a highway on-ramp, and the company behind that truck is answerable to a body of federal law that has nothing to do with Georgia's traffic code.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sets hard limits on how long a commercial driver can be on the road: 11 hours of driving within a 14-hour window, only after 10 consecutive hours off duty; a mandatory 30-minute break after 8 hours behind the wheel; and weekly ceilings of 60 hours over 7 days or 70 hours over 8.
Because electronic logging devices record this automatically, there's almost always a digital record of what actually happened that day, even if it contradicts the story the driver or the company gives afterward. When that record shows a violation, it becomes direct evidence of negligence, particularly in fatigue-related crashes.
At Turnbull, Moak & Pendergrass, we know which of those records to demand, how to read them, and how to use them to build a case.
Truck accident cases involve a level of regulatory complexity that an ordinary car accident claim simply doesn't have.
Black box and ELD data, dash cam footage, and driver logs aren't guaranteed to survive past a company's normal retention schedule. We send legal preservation letters immediately so that the schedule doesn't decide the outcome of your case.
Trucking companies and their insurers negotiate very differently once it's clear a firm is actually prepared to try the case, not just settle it.
Primarily through ELD data, cross-checked against dispatch records, fuel, and toll receipts. Any of these can confirm or contradict the driver's logged hours.
That's the risk of waiting. A preservation letter sent quickly can stop it, but once the data's gone, it's typically gone for good.
No. We handle truck accident cases on a contingency basis, so you pay nothing unless we win. There's no financial risk in reaching out for a free consultation.
In Georgia, the statute of limitations for a personal injury claim arising from a truck accident is 2 years from the date of the crash. That sounds like a long window, but evidence like ELD data and dash cam footage can disappear long before that deadline arrives, so the practical clock is usually much shorter than the legal one.
