QPWB’s trucking defense attorneys review your compliance the way a plaintiff’s lawyer will, so you can fix the gaps before they become evidence.
In a trucking lawsuit, the carrier’s records are often the plaintiff’s best evidence. Driver files, hours-of-service logs, drug testing and maintenance history are all discoverable, and every gap becomes proof of a company that cut corners. Small fleets without a safety department are the most exposed.
Regulators ask whether you followed the rules. Juries ask whether you cared about safety. A typical compliance report answers the first question, and can become a plaintiff’s exhibit. We review your files from the defense table, asking one question: what will opposing counsel do with this?
Driver files, hours of service, drug and alcohol testing, maintenance and CSA scores.
Policies and recordkeeping for new and growing fleets.
Counsel through compliance reviews, interventions and rating upgrades.
4/7 evidence preservation and driver interviews.
One standard across your small-fleet book.
Structured so privilege can be asserted over our analysis.
We read your files as a plaintiff’s lawyer would.
A remediation plan ranked by litigation risk.
If a crash happens, your defense team already knows your fleet.
Spot your hardest-to-defend insureds early, reduce severity and give insureds real value at renewal.
Build the records that show a jury you take safety seriously, with defense counsel ready if the worst happens.
Kelly Milam is a QPWB partner practicing from Chicago, Indianapolis and Merrillville. A trial attorney with 15+ years defending trucking companies and their insurers, she chairs the Trucking Industry Defense Association’s Skills Course Committee.
“Trucking cases are often won or lost long before trial.”
Our attorneys evaluate litigation exposure as well as regulatory compliance, and counsel-directed work may be protected by privilege.
No. Required records stay discoverable; only counsel’s analysis may be protected, which is why we help you fix gaps, not just find them.
Driver qualification files, hours of service and ELD data, drug and alcohol testing, maintenance records, accident registers, CSA scores and hiring practices.
Trucking insurers managing severity across their book, and motor carriers, especially small fleets without a safety department.
Yes. We provide post-accident response and counsel through audits, interventions and rating upgrades.
Our attorneys evaluate litigation exposure as well as regulatory compliance, and counsel-directed work may be protected by privilege.
No. Required records stay discoverable; only counsel’s analysis may be protected, which is why we help you fix gaps, not just find them.
Driver qualification files, hours of service and ELD data, drug and alcohol testing, maintenance records, accident registers, CSA scores and hiring practices.
Trucking insurers managing severity across their book, and motor carriers, especially small fleets without a safety department.
Yes. We provide post-accident response and counsel through audits, interventions and rating upgrades.
¹ American Transportation Research Institute, Understanding the Impact of Nuclear Verdicts on the Trucking Industry (2020), as summarized by the American Trucking Associations.
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