What happens when truck companies cut corners on maintenance on their vehicles? Hi, I’m David Vigner with Scott Vigner and Jewel Wars. The answer is bad things happen. Ultimately, defaying maintenance on things like tire safety on things like braking systems, defaying maintenance on engine safety can be the types of things which lead to not only serious injury claims, but deadly consequences for truck drivers and other people on the road.

We have in fact dealt with cases just in this past year with truck maintenance failures associated with an accident where the truck driver was killed because of known maintenance issues on a big rig that the trucking company consistently ignored or didn’t fully repair. Whether it was to save money or for whatever reason there was documented history of maintenance issues and they just failed to fix it. And that led to that truck driver and that family losing a family member.

And so devastating things can happen all the way up to death when a trucking company ignores maintenance issues and when there’s potentially a brake failure associated with the truck accident. And so trucking company as negligence in maintenance type situations can be a critical element of proof in your case. Whether it establishes liability or builds the picture of liability is a fact by fact analysis on every single case. But it’s one of the things that a law firm who is adept and skilled in handling trucking cases should be looking at aside from FMCSA violations of federal law related to truck drivers.

So if you’ve been involved in a truck accident, 18-wheeler accident, or a big rig accident of any kind in the entire state of Louisiana, please give my team at Scott Vnerel a call today. We’d be happy to give you a free consultation and see how we can help you and your family today.