specialist in Navigating Commercial Vehicle Accidents
Throughout North America, Truck Accident & Incident Experts, LLC, is recognized as the leading truck accident expert witnesses and a prominent figure in the business of Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) crash investigation and causation. The team at Truck Accident & Incident Experts, LLC brings unparalleled field and courtroom experience to clients facing litigation involving truck accidents, be it Plaintiff or Defendant matters.
All of the team’s experiences has been surrounded by trucks for well over 100 collective years. The team and/or individual experience is rich and divergent as each staff Senior Consultant has a plethora of experience in either (or a combination thereof) MCSA-MCSAP Roadside Enforcement Inspectors; real time response to thousands of CMV crashes; thousands of post-crash FMCSA-CVSA inspections; thousands of loading dock incidents involving CMVs; actual professional over-the-road CMV drivers; Motor Carrier Safety Directors and fleet owners. In addition, the TAIE Senior Consultants have collectively worked CMV crash events in litigation in all 50-states and Canada.
Precision Analysis, Unmatched Expertise.
The team at Truck Accident & Incident Experts, LLC is arguably the most well-rounded truck accident expert witness group in CMV testimony, commercial vehicle crash investigation, post-crash inspection, and field research in the highly specialized field of commercial vehicle accidents. They serve both Plaintiffs and Defendants in civil and criminal cases and arbitration.
To read one of the team’s well-written, detailed, and creatively executed reports is to appreciate their true and uncanny ability to connect the dots where many experts never knew the dots existed or simply misrepresent Regulations and/or standards of care. This is what separates a true truck crash expert from others in the field. Typical terms used by Client Counsel to describe the team’s reports are: “excellent,” “outstanding,” “well-written,” “great stuff,” “ability to teach counsel and jury,” and “powerful” Attorney testimonials and references are available upon request.
On average 65% to 70% of our clients either return to TAIE for future case work and/or refer TAIE to colleague attorneys in other firms or insurance carriers. A true testament as to the impressive work of the long-standing Senior Consultants at TAIE, headed by the Chief Consultant, Scott L. Turner, a very well known and respected name in the CMV litigation universe.
our Contributions to Transportation Safety and Emergency Response
TAIE prides itself in excellence. When we on-board a new case, we interview the retaining attorney in order that we may determine if the case has merit from the Plaintiff side and/or the Defense side. During the initial no cost on-boarding interview, we are able to guide Counsel and quickly identify case viability in terms of regulatory support and standards of care support. We do not offer opinions ipse dixit or net opinions, but rather we need to initially prove out violations or lack thereof. Once that process has met our standards in terms of taking on a new case, we proceed accordingly. No case is undertaken without the direct approval of our Chief Consultant. This serves the retaining Counsel in the best way possible, because it brings the same to a full understanding as to why we will or will not take on a new matter. The “free” interview is a great viability analysis tool for Counsel as to the initial thoughts regarding their cases strength be it Defense or Plaintiff.
Our Chief Consultant’s more note-worthy accomplishments during his career as a trucking expert and truck accident expert witness include, but not limited to:
- FMCSA-CVSA Level 1 Roadside Enforcement Inspector trained; IPTM Commercial Vehicle Crash determination; NATMI Supervisor/Director trained; NJSP CMV/CTT Crash Instructor; PHMSA Cargo-Tank Specialist; PHMSA Haz-Mat Specialist, etc. (see CV)
- Haz-Mat & CTT Emergency Response Specialist Instructor for New Jersey State Police
- Involved in the script writing of “Hazardous Waste” video (by EFG, remake 1995)
- Involved in the development of “Are You Ready? Building an LEPC and the role of the Public Official” video (by NJSP and HMAC, 1996).
- Involved in the development and script of “The Right Response, MC-307/DOT 407, Cargo-Tank Safety” video (by Union/Middlesex HMAC).
- Involved in the development and script of “Intermodal Container Emergencies” video (by Emergency Film Group)
- Advisory on 1996 publication “Hazardous Materials Emergencies Involving Intermodal Containers, Guidelines and Procedures”
- Advisory on 1996 publication “Gasoline Tank Truck Emergencies, Guidelines and Procedures”
- Responded and/or investigated in excess of 1,000 CMV crashes involving LTL and Trailer Load crashes and spills and more than 200 tank-truck crashes and/or incidents
- National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board – 2 committees.
- Periodic speaker at Seton Hall University on Entrepreneurial Studies
- Winner of the 2006 NJBIZ Magazine “Business of the Year” Award
- Winner of the 2002 “New Jersey’s Finest” Corporation Award
- Winner of the 2003 “New Jersey’s Finest” Corporation Award
- Winner of the 2004 Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award
- Board of Advisors at Seton Hall University, Stillman School of Business, Entrepreneur
- Recognized in 2002 as “Summerall’s Success Stories” by Pat Summerall Production
Speaking engagements:
- American Law Firm Association (ALFA);
- Transportation Lawyers Association (TLA);
- National Tank Truck Carriers Annual Conferences;
- NJ State Safety Council Annual Conferences;
- Middlesex County Fire Academy;
- Hazardous Materials Advisory Council’s Transportation Regulatory Compliance Enforcement Conference;
- Marine Fire Fighting Task Force;
- American Trucking Association;
- Association of American Railroads (BOE);
- American Towmen’s Association;
- Vessel Operators Hazardous Materials Association (VOHMA),
- Pennsylvania Hazardous Materials Association Annual Conference (HACC),
- Philadelphia Fire Academy,
- California Regional Hazardous Materials Response Organization, and more.
- SEAK Expert Witness, Clearwater, Florida
The Senior Consultants at TAIE have equally impressive histories of noteworthy accomplishments of which are outlined on their Curriculum Vitae’s, available upon request.