Truck Accident Attorney for Duluth, Georgia

A commercial truck collision is not a bigger car wreck. The moment a crash involves a motor carrier, a second body of law applies on top of Georgia negligence: the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, which govern driver hours of service, qualification files, vehicle inspection and maintenance, drug and alcohol testing, and cargo securement. Each of those requirements generates records, and those records are frequently where a Duluth truck case is actually won or lost.

Those records do not survive indefinitely. Electronic logging device data, dashcam footage, dispatch messages and telematics are often retained for months rather than years, and carriers are not obliged to preserve them once ordinary retention lapses — unless a spoliation letter has gone out. That is why the first weeks after a Duluth truck crash matter far more than they do in a routine car claim.

Liability is also rarely limited to the driver. Depending on the facts, the motor carrier, the trailer owner, a maintenance contractor, a broker or the shipper responsible for loading can each carry exposure — and commercial policies are written in layers, which is the practical reason a truck claim can reach compensation a $25,000 Georgia minimum auto policy never could. The underlying Georgia rules still apply: two years to file most injury claims under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33, and modified comparative negligence under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33, which bars recovery only at 50% or more fault.