Los Angeles Truck Accident Lawyer

The freight routes through Los Angeles funnel heavy trucks into the same lanes you drive every day — the I-710 corridor running up from the ports, the I-5 and I-10 interchanges, and the long grind over the Sepulveda Pass on the 405. Add the surface-street deliveries clogging downtown around Alameda and the warehouse traffic in the eastern stretches, and the result is constant contact between 80,000-pound rigs and ordinary passenger cars. A jackknife on the 101 or an underride at a Figueroa intersection produces injuries on a different scale than a typical fender-bender. Truck cases are not just bigger car cases. Interstate carriers operate under federal FMCSA regulations covering driver hours, maintenance, and inspection, and modern trucks log electronic data — hours-of-service records, the ECM 'black box,' and telematics — that can vanish on a routine retention schedule if no one demands it be preserved. A prompt spoliation letter to the carrier matters. Liability can also reach beyond the driver to the trucking company, the broker, or a maintenance contractor, and California's two-year deadline under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 runs while that evidence is still discoverable. These cases are generally litigated in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, with downtown matters at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Our office sits a short drive up the I-5 in Glendale, and we offer free consultations in English, Armenian, and Russian. You pay nothing unless we recover for you.