Background

Scott L. Turner has been actively involved in the field of Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) transportation matters since 1988. He is formerly the CEO and founder of a nationwide CMV crash recovery and major disaster response and recovery team, with or without hazardous materials.

Turner’s former crash recovery team was the nation’s leading dedicated privately owned CMV crash recovery, investigation and emergency spill response corporation. While under Turner’s management, it was called upon to manage well in-excess of 2000 incidents annually ranging from Commercial Motor Vehicle crashes to train derailments; to small private air incidents to major commercial airline crashes; to small hazmat releases at a chemical facility to major chemical facility disasters such as spills, explosions and fires.

Prior to Turner’s aforesaid experience he spent several years as an owner-operator of a tractor-trailer performing over-the-road driving in the late 1980’s. His driving experience included flat-beds, low-boy (wide and over-sized loads), tanker and dry van trailers.

Additional Experience:

  • In excess of 1,000 Tractor Trailer Wrecks
  • In excess of 200 Cargo-Tank Truck Wrecks
  • Numerous rail tank car incidents and train derailments
  • Numerous airline disasters
  • Contamination migration issues
  • Hazard and risk assessment
  • Environmental impact studies
  • Clean-up and remediation incident audits

In addition to both FMCSA and PHMSA training and compliance audits and inspections, Turner currently and primarily serves as an expert witness to the transportation legal community. For additional snapshot information regarding Turner’s expert work, see the below section entitled “Representation”.

Representation:

Turner has been called upon by numerous law firms spanning the United States, from California to New York, and from Texas to Illinois. Turner serving as both Plaintiff and Defense expert for retaining law firms has served in some of North America’s most notorious CMV related cases.

Turner’s expert services span from the representation of client’s such as the State of California’s legal counsel from California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) for a major cargo-tank crash with millions in highway and property damage to the Defense or Plaintiff Counsel representing the truck crash, or loading/off-loading matter.
In addition to many CMV crash cases for private plaintiff and defense firms, Turner’s reputation has taken him to the federal level. Turner has been requested as the expert representing the United States Department of Justice (New Mexico) involving a CMV shipment of an estimated $25 million in cocaine from Southern California to the East coast whereas the shipment was discovered during a routine FMCSA truck inspection.

Headline Incidents:

With respect to non-CMV related disasters and crashes, in behalf of HMHTTC Response, Inc, Scott Turner has presided over some of North America’s worst hazardous materials and/or general disasters such as, but not limited to:

  • 1997 Federal Express air disaster, Newark Airport, NJ,
  • 2001 Motiva’s Delaware City 1.2 million gallon sulfuric acid disaster
  • 2001 Hart Senate Building Anthrax release
  • 2001 CSX Baltimore Tunnel train derailment
  • 2002 BASF’s oleum tank car explosion and fire, Freeport TX
  • 2002 G-4 jet crash in Teterboro, NJ,
  • 2009 US Airways jet crash in the Hudson River, NJ