Abogado de Accidentes de Camiones en Concord

The Concord Truck Accident Lawyers Drivers Trust

When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer collides with a 4,000-pound passenger car, physics decides who walks away and who doesn't. If you or someone you love was hit by a commercial truck on I-680 through downtown, near the Highway 4 / Highway 242 freight stack, along Port Chicago Highway or Willow Pass Road, or anywhere on Concord's surface streets, you are not in a normal car accident case. You are in a federal-regulation case, against a corporate defendant, with insurance policies measured in millions, and with evidence that the trucking company is legally allowed to destroy on a routine schedule unless somebody stops them.

Scranton Law Firm has been representing catastrophically injured Californians for more than 50 years. We've recovered over $1 billion for our clients. We know how to identify every responsible party in a truck crash — not just the driver, but the carrier, the broker, the cargo loader, and the maintenance contractor. We know how to send a spoliation letter the day we sign you up so the ELD data, dashcam footage, and dispatch records don't vanish. And we know Concord — its freight corridors, its trauma routing through Walnut Creek, its CHP and police reporting channels, and the way Contra Costa County Superior Court handles commercial vehicle cases.

If you were hit by a truck in this region, this is the team you want on your side. We answer the phone 24/7, the consultation is free, and we move on the evidence the same day.

Why Truck Accidents Are Different — and More Serious — Than Car Accidents

A commercial truck is not just a bigger car. It's a federally regulated vehicle, operated by a federally licensed driver, owned by a federally registered motor carrier, and almost always insured for many times the dollar amount of an ordinary auto policy. That changes everything about your case:

• The injuries are catastrophic. Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, internal organ damage, crush injuries, amputations, and wrongful death are disproportionately common in collisions involving big rigs. A passenger car simply cannot absorb the energy of an 80,000-pound impact.
• The federal rulebook applies. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulates every commercial motor carrier operating in interstate commerce — hours of service, driver qualification, drug and alcohol testing, vehicle inspection and maintenance, hazardous materials handling. Each one of those rules is a potential lever in your case.
• There are usually multiple defendants. The driver may be at fault, but so may the company that hired and trained the driver, the company that loaded the cargo, the maintenance shop that signed off on the brakes, the broker who arranged the load, and sometimes the manufacturer of a defective component. Every layer of fault is another insurance policy.
• The evidence is digital — and fragile. Modern trucks carry Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), engine control modules ("black boxes"), dashcam footage, GPS data, and dispatch records. Most of it is stored on retention schedules of 6 months or less. If you don't preserve it immediately, it's gone.
• The other side has a rapid-response team. When a truck crashes, the carrier's insurer typically dispatches an investigator and a defense lawyer to the scene within hours — sometimes before the injured driver has even been discharged from the trauma bay. They are gathering evidence and shaping the narrative from minute one. You need somebody doing the same on your side.

This is why truck accident cases — handled correctly — settle for substantially more than ordinary car accident cases. And it's why they cannot be handled like ordinary car accident cases.

Concord's Most Dangerous Truck Routes

Concord sits at one of the most heavily trafficked freight crossroads in the western United States. Five major commercial corridors converge in or near the city:

• I-680 — the West Coast spine. Mexico-to-Canada freight, agricultural loads out of the Central Valley, and Port of Oakland container traffic all run this corridor through downtown Concord.
• Autopista 4 — the main east-west truck corridor through central Contra Costa County, with steady commercial traffic and recurring merge conflicts.
• Highway 242 — a short but extremely important freight connector where merging trucks and commuter traffic collide in a hurry.
• Kirker Pass Road and Port Chicago Highway corridors — major local truck routes feeding industrial, warehouse, and distribution traffic through Concord’s arterial network.
• Local industrial and distribution corridors — warehouse, construction, and delivery traffic regularly moves through Concord on Port Chicago Highway, Willow Pass Road, and adjacent commercial routes.

California Office of Traffic Safety rankings, corridor reporting, and freight-volume reality all point to the same conclusion: Contra Costa County sits in the upper tier of California counties for serious truck-crash exposure because I-680, Highway 4, Highway 242, and Concord’s industrial arterials all funnel commercial traffic through the same region.

The roads were not built for the freight volume they now carry. Add fog and winter weather on Highway 242, sudden stop-and-go congestion on I-680 and Highway 4, and tight merge conditions on Concord arterials, and the result is one of the rougher East Bay environments for passenger vehicles sharing the road with big rigs.

Concord truck crashes also follow a specific rhythm. Morning freight movement collides with the inbound commute on I-680 and Highway 4, midday delivery routes saturate Port Chicago Highway and the industrial corridor, and afternoon queue spillback at the freeway connectors leaves loaded rigs braking late into stopped traffic. That timing matters because it dictates which witnesses are available, which surveillance angles caught the impact, and which records — driver logs, dispatch instructions, weigh-station tickets — we have to preserve before they age out.

Common Concord Truck Crash Patterns

Most Concord truck crashes fall into a small number of recurring patterns. We see them every week:

Rear-end impacts in stop-and-go I-680 and Highway 4 traffic. A loaded 18-wheeler can take the length of a football field to come to a complete stop. When commute traffic compresses without warning, a fatigued or distracted truck driver who fails to anticipate the slowdown rolls right over the back of a passenger car. This is one of the deadliest crash patterns in the city.

Jackknife crashes on Highway 242 in fog or rain. Tule fog season and winter rain on the Highway 242 corridor produce predictable jackknife events — the trailer swings out perpendicular to the cab and sweeps multiple lanes. When this happens at highway speeds it takes out everything in its path.

Brake-failure and downhill-speed incidents. Fully loaded trucks moving through regional grade changes and high-speed connectors can create catastrophic crashes when braking systems fail or drivers mismanage speed.

Underride collisions. A passenger vehicle slides under the side or rear of a trailer. The injuries are almost always catastrophic or fatal. Inadequate side guards, missing or damaged rear-impact guards, and poor trailer lighting are all potential bases of liability.

Lane-change and blind-spot crashes. Big rigs have enormous blind spots — directly in front of the cab, alongside the trailer for most of its length, and behind the trailer. Improper lane changes by truck drivers, especially on Clayton Road, Port Chicago Highway, and the Highway 4 / Willow Pass Road interchange, produce serious sideswipe and merge crashes.

Wide-turn accidents at intersections. Tractor-trailers making right turns from city streets often swing left first — and a passenger car that pulls up alongside in the right lane gets crushed against the curb when the trailer comes around.

Cargo spill and shifting-load crashes. Improperly secured loads — logs, scrap metal, rebar, machinery — that come loose at highway speed cause some of the most preventable serious injuries on Concord freeways. When the cargo loader is a separate company from the driver, both are typically liable.

DUI and fatigue crashes. Federal hours-of-service rules exist because tired truckers kill people. So do drug and alcohol testing rules. Violations of either are powerful evidence — but only if you preserve the records before they're destroyed.

Federal Trucking Regulations That Can Win Your Case

Most lawyers handle car accidents. Far fewer have spent time inside the FMCSA rulebook. Here are the federal regulations that come up most often in Concord truck cases:

Hours of Service (49 CFR Part 395). A property-carrying commercial driver generally cannot drive more than 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty, cannot drive beyond the 14th hour after coming on duty, and is limited to 60 hours in 7 consecutive days (or 70 in 8). Violations are recorded on the ELD and on the driver's logs. Hours-of-service violations are one of the strongest pieces of evidence we can put in front of a jury.

Driver Qualification Files (49 CFR Part 391). Every motor carrier must maintain a qualification file on every driver — including license verification, road-test certification, medical examination, and prior employment history. Carriers that hire drivers with disqualifying records, expired medical cards, or undisclosed prior crashes are liable for negligent hiring and retention.

Drug and Alcohol Testing (49 CFR Part 382). Pre-employment testing, random testing, post-accident testing, and reasonable-suspicion testing are all required. Failure to test after a serious crash, or a positive result that the carrier failed to act on, becomes powerful evidence of carrier-level fault.

Vehicle Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance (49 CFR Part 396). Carriers must conduct systematic inspections, document all repairs, and remove out-of-service vehicles from the road. Brake-system failures, tire failures, and lighting failures often trace back to maintenance violations.

Cargo Securement (49 CFR Part 393, Subpart I). Specific rules govern how every category of cargo must be secured. Improperly secured loads that shift, fall, or come off the trailer almost always indicate a violation.

ELD Mandate (49 CFR Part 395, Subpart B). Almost every commercial driver in interstate commerce must use an Electronic Logging Device that automatically records driving time, engine hours, vehicle movement, and location. ELD data is the single most important piece of digital evidence in modern truck cases.

When we open a Concord truck case, we don't just pull the police report. We FOIA the carrier's USDOT inspection history, request the driver qualification file, demand the ELD download, and serve a spoliation letter the same day. That work — done early — is what separates a case that settles for the policy minimum from one that recovers full value.

Why Evidence Preservation Has to Happen Now

The biggest difference between a truck case and a car case is the evidence clock. A trucking company is allowed to destroy most categories of records on a routine retention schedule — typically 6 months for driver logs and supporting documents, sometimes less for dashcam and ELD downloads — unless somebody legally puts them on notice not to.

Within the first hours and days after a Concord truck crash, we work to preserve:

• ELD data — driving hours, engine activity, location pings, hard-braking events
• Video de la cámara del tablero — both forward-facing and inward-facing where equipped
• Engine Control Module ("black box") download — speed, throttle, brake application, and seatbelt status in the seconds before impact
• Driver's daily logs and supporting documents — fuel receipts, weigh-station tickets, toll records, GPS data
• Dispatch and load records — when the load was assigned, when it was due, pressure to make a delivery window
• Driver qualification file — license history, medical certification, prior employment
• Drug and alcohol test results — pre-employment and post-accident
• Maintenance and inspection records — for both the tractor and the trailer
• Carrier's USDOT inspection and crash history — through the FMCSA's public Safety Measurement System
• Vídeo de vigilancia — Caltrans cameras, business cameras, traffic cameras at the scene
• Las declaraciones de los testigos — taken before memories fade or witnesses become hard to find

A formal spoliation letter — sent the same day we are retained — puts the carrier and its insurer on legal notice that the destruction of any of this evidence will be treated as spoliation, with the resulting evidentiary sanctions at trial. That letter alone has changed the trajectory of countless cases.

If you wait weeks to call a lawyer after a Concord truck crash, much of this evidence may already be gone. The single most important thing you can do for your case is to get a truck-experienced lawyer involved immediately.

Multi-Party Liability: Who Can Be Sued in a Concord Truck Crash?

In a typical car-on-car accident, there's one defendant: the other driver. In a typical truck case, there are five or more.

• The driver. Negligence, recklessness, fatigue, distraction, intoxication.
• The motor carrier (trucking company). Negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, hours-of-service violations, pressure to skip rest breaks, failure to maintain the vehicle.
• The cargo loader or shipper. Improperly loaded or unsecured cargo, overweight loads, undisclosed hazards.
• The freight broker. A broker that selects an unsafe carrier with a known bad safety record can be liable for negligent selection.
• The maintenance contractor. Brake jobs, tire work, and trailer inspections done negligently.
• The truck or trailer manufacturer. Defective brakes, defective tires, defective coupling devices, missing or inadequate underride guards.
• The owner of the trailer (often a separate entity from the tractor's owner).
• A government entity, in rare cases involving roadway design. Strict 6-month deadline applies.

Identifying every responsible party is one of the single most important tasks in a truck case — and one of the most common things smaller, less experienced firms miss. When we open a Concord truck file, we trace the entire chain of custody for the load: who hired the carrier, who loaded the trailer, who maintained the equipment, who dispatched the driver, who set the delivery window. Every link in that chain is a potential source of recovery.

Trucking Insurance — Why Recoveries Are Larger

Federal regulation 49 CFR § 387.9 sets minimum financial responsibility requirements for motor carriers in interstate commerce:

• General freight: $750,000 minimum
• Oil-related transportation: $1,000,000 minimum
• Hazardous materials (most categories): $5,000,000 minimum
• Passenger carriers (varies by capacity): $1,500,000 to $5,000,000

Many carriers carry well above the minimum — primary policies of $1 million are common for general freight, with excess and umbrella layers stacking another $5 to $25 million on top. Compare that with California's bare-minimum auto policy of $30,000 per person / $60,000 per accident, and you can see why a properly worked-up truck case can recover dramatically more than a typical auto claim — even when the underlying injuries are similar.

It also explains why trucking carriers fight harder. With more dollars exposed, they have more reason to deny, delay, and minimize. That's where 50+ years of plaintiffs' trucking experience matters.

Catastrophic Injuries We Handle

Truck crashes don't produce ordinary injuries. The energy involved is too great. Common injury patterns we handle for Concord truck crash victims include:

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) — from concussion through severe TBI requiring long-term cognitive rehabilitation
• Las lesiones de la médula espinal — including paraplegia and quadriplegia
• Spine and disc injuries — herniated discs, fractures, surgical fusions
• Crush injuries and amputations — hands, arms, legs, feet
• Internal organ damage — liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs
• Multiple-fracture trauma — pelvis, femur, ribs, skull
• Severe burns — cargo fires, fuel fires, post-collision fires
• La muerte injusta — when a loved one does not survive

These cases require detailed medical and economic workups: life-care plans, vocational rehabilitation analysis, future-medical projections, and economic-loss reports. We coordinate the full team of experts that a catastrophic injury case demands.

What to Do Right Now After a Concord Truck Accident

The order of operations after a truck crash is similar to a car crash, but with more urgency on the evidence side:

1. Get medical attention. John Muir Medical Center – Concord Campus is the closest ER for many Concord truck crashes, and John Muir Medical Center – Walnut Creek often handles the most serious trauma cases. Go even if you feel fine — adrenaline and shock can mask serious injuries for hours or days.
2. Make sure law enforcement responds. CHP handles freeway and state-highway crashes (including I-680, Highway 4, and Highway 242). Concord PD handles city streets. For commercial vehicle crashes, CHP’s Motor Carrier Specialists may also conduct a separate post-crash inspection of the truck.
3. Photograph everything you safely can. Both vehicles, the entire scene, road and weather conditions, license plate of the truck, USDOT number on the cab door, the carrier's name, the trailer number, and any visible injuries.
4. Get the driver's information. Name, license, medical card, the carrier's name, and the carrier's USDOT number. This is the single most important data point — without the USDOT number, identifying the actual carrier (vs. the truck's apparent name) can become difficult.
5. Get witness information. Names and phone numbers. Truck crash witnesses often disappear quickly.
6. Do not give a recorded statement to the trucking company's insurer. They will call within hours. Tell them politely that you have counsel and to direct all communication to your lawyer.
7. Do not post about the crash on social media. Trucking-defense investigators monitor social media aggressively.
8. Call us. The same day if possible. 1-800-707-0707, 24/7. The sooner we send the spoliation letter, the more evidence we save.

Local Hospitals and Trauma Centers

We've worked with all of these facilities and can help you obtain records, schedule consultations, and arrange treatment on a lien basis if you don't have health insurance.

Concord Police, CHP, and Crash Reports

We pull these reports — including the carrier's full federal inspection and crash history — for our clients as part of intake. More importantly, we know what a Concord truck case needs beyond the report: nearby business and Caltrans surveillance, intersection camera timing, weigh-station and toll records, and an immediate spoliation letter to the carrier so the ELD download, dashcam footage, and dispatch data don't age out before we're even in court.

How Contra Costa County Superior Court Handles Truck Accident Cases

Personal injury lawsuits in Concord — including commercial trucking cases — are filed at the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse at 725 Court Street, Martinez, CA 94553.

A few things that matter for your case:

• Statute of limitations. California Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1 gives you two years from the date of the crash to file. Government-entity claims (rare in trucking but possible) require a 6-month written claim. The statute of limitations does not, however, control the evidence clock — ELD and dashcam data can be lawfully overwritten or destroyed long before two years are up.
• Comparative negligence. California is a pure comparative negligence state. Even if a jury attributes some percentage of fault to you, you still recover — your award is reduced by your percentage. Trucking insurers will fight hard to push fault onto the passenger-vehicle driver. Don't let them.
• No damages cap. California does not cap economic or non-economic damages in motor vehicle cases. Your case can recover the full value of medical care, lost earning capacity, future care, and pain and suffering.
• Punitive damages. Available where the carrier's or driver's conduct rises beyond ordinary negligence — DUI, falsified logs, knowing safety violations, or hiring a driver with a known dangerous record can support punitives.

What Compensation Is Available in a Concord Truck Accident Case?

You may be entitled to recover:

• Past and future medical expenses — including hospitalization, surgery, rehabilitation, prosthetics, durable medical equipment, home health care, and projected future care over your lifetime
• Lost wages and lost earning capacity — including reduced ability to perform your prior work, retraining costs, and projected lifetime earnings differences
• Daño a la propiedad — vehicle repair or total-loss valuation, plus diminished value
• Dolor y sufrimiento — physical pain, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life
• Pérdida de consorcio — for the spouse of a seriously injured victim
• Wrongful death damages — for surviving family members where a loved one did not survive
• Los daños punitivos — in cases involving DUI, falsified logs, hours-of-service violations, drug-test failures, or systemic carrier-level safety violations

A real settlement isn't just last week's medical bill plus your insurance deductible. In a truck case it's a comprehensive accounting of what the crash will cost you over your lifetime — past, present, and future. We make sure nothing gets left on the table.

Why Choose Scranton Law Firm

• $1 billion+ recovered for clients across California
• 50+ years representing injured Californians
• No fee unless we win — contingency representation, no out-of-pocket cost to you
• Bilingual staff — English and Spanish, available 24/7
• Free, no-obligation consultation — talk to a real attorney, not a screener
• Truck-case experience that matches the work — FMCSA-savvy investigators, established relationships with accident reconstructionists, biomechanical engineers, and life-care planners
• Concord consultations available by appointment — meet with a real attorney close to home
• We know where smaller firms leave money on the table — broker liability, statutory-employee theories, life-care planning, future medical projections, and the multi-policy stacking that turns a $1M case into the right number when there are five defendants in the chain

You don't pay us anything unless we recover for you. We front the costs of investigation, expert witnesses, and litigation — which in a truck case can be substantial. If we don't win, you don't owe.

Concord Truck Crash Statistics

Truck-crash numbers move year to year, but the pattern in Concord does not: this is one of Northern California’s most concentrated freight corridors, and the severity of the resulting cases is consistently higher than standard auto claims.

• Contra Costa County sees a heavy share of Northern California’s serious truck-crash volume because multiple interstate and valley freight routes converge here
• I-680, Highway 4, Highway 242, and the downtown connector create the highest-risk truck corridors because they combine freight density with abrupt commuter slowdowns
• Highway 242 and winter fog conditions remain a repeat recipe for chain-reaction and jackknife crashes
• Hours-of-service pressure, distraction, and poor maintenance are the recurring liability themes we look for first in catastrophic truck cases
• Truck claims usually carry far larger insurance towers than ordinary car crashes, which is exactly why early evidence preservation matters so much

How a Concord Truck Accident Claim Works (Our Process)

Step 1 — Free consultation. You call us. We listen. There's no fee, no commitment. We tell you honestly whether you have a case worth pursuing.

Step 2 — Spoliation letter and evidence preservation. Same day, where possible. We put the carrier and its insurer on formal legal notice to preserve ELD data, dashcam footage, dispatch records, driver logs, and maintenance records.

Step 3 — Investigation. We pull the police report, FOIA the carrier's USDOT inspection and crash history, request the driver qualification file, secure surveillance footage, and — where the case warrants — retain an accident reconstructionist to inspect the vehicles and the scene.

Step 4 — Treatment coordination. We make sure you're getting the medical care you need. For catastrophic injuries we coordinate life-care planning and future-medical projections. We arrange lien-basis treatment if you don't have health insurance.

Step 5 — Multi-defendant analysis. We identify every party in the chain — driver, carrier, broker, loader, maintenance contractor, manufacturer — and pursue every applicable insurance policy.

Step 6 — Demand and negotiation. Once you've reached maximum medical improvement (or future care can be reliably projected), we send a comprehensive demand and negotiate hard.

Step 7 — Litigation if needed. Trucking carriers settle when they believe the case will go to trial. We make them believe it. Most cases still resolve before trial, but the willingness to take it the distance is what produces serious settlement offers.

Step 8 — Recovery. Settlement or verdict. We resolve outstanding medical liens, deduct fees and case costs, and put your check in your hand.

Preguntas Frecuentes

Who is at fault when I'm hit by a commercial truck in Concord? Often more than one party. The driver may be at fault for fatigue, distraction, or driving error. But the trucking company can be liable for hours-of-service violations, negligent hiring, or poor maintenance. The cargo loader can be liable for an improperly secured load. The broker can be liable for hiring a carrier with a known bad safety record. A complete truck case identifies every responsible party — and every applicable insurance policy.

What is FMCSA, and why does it matter for my case? The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the federal agency that regulates interstate commercial trucking. Its rules govern hours of service, driver qualification, drug and alcohol testing, vehicle maintenance, and cargo securement. Violations of FMCSA rules are powerful evidence in a civil case — and FMCSA's public Safety Measurement System lets us look up every interstate carrier's inspection and crash history.

How long does the trucking company have to preserve ELD data and other evidence? Federal rules require some categories of records to be retained for 6 months; some less. Without a formal preservation demand, much of the most important evidence — ELD data, dashcam footage, dispatch records — can be lawfully destroyed within months. That is why a spoliation letter sent immediately after a crash is one of the single most important things a truck-crash lawyer can do for you.

What is a spoliation letter? A formal legal notice to the carrier and its insurer demanding preservation of all relevant evidence — ELD data, dashcam footage, ECM downloads, driver logs, dispatch records, maintenance records, and qualification files. Once a spoliation letter has been served, destruction of that evidence becomes legally actionable spoliation, exposing the carrier to evidentiary sanctions at trial. We send these the day we are retained.

Are hours-of-service violations evidence I can use? Yes — and they are some of the most powerful evidence in trucking cases. ELD data and supporting documents (fuel receipts, weigh-station records) often reveal that a driver had been on the road longer than federal rules allow, or had falsified the logs. Juries respond strongly to a driver and a carrier that broke federal rest rules and then killed or injured someone.

How does trucking insurance differ from regular auto insurance? Federal minimums for interstate trucking range from $750,000 to $5 million depending on cargo. Many carriers carry well above the minimum, with primary and excess layers stacking into the millions or tens of millions. By comparison, California's minimum auto liability is $30,000 per person / $60,000 per accident. The available coverage in a truck case is typically dramatically larger.

Why do truck cases settle for more than car cases? Three reasons. (1) The injuries are typically more severe — TBI, spinal injuries, amputations, and wrongful death are common. (2) The available insurance is much larger. (3) The federal regulatory framework gives plaintiffs more levers — hours-of-service violations, falsified logs, qualification-file failures, and maintenance lapses each create independent paths to liability and, in the worst cases, to punitive damages.

What if I can't identify the trucking company? Look at the cab door for the USDOT number. That number is the key to the FMCSA database, where every interstate carrier is registered. If you don't have it, photographs of the trailer, tractor, license plates, and the load can usually let our investigators run the carrier down. Don't let an inability to identify the carrier on your own stop you from calling — we identify carriers for clients all the time.

The trucking company's insurer keeps calling me. What should I do? Politely tell them you are represented by counsel and to direct all communication to your lawyer. Then call us. The carrier's insurer is not your friend. Their adjusters are trained to elicit statements that minimize your claim, and their lawyers are sometimes on the scene before you're even out of the trauma bay.

How long do I have to file a Concord truck accident claim? Two years from the crash for most claims under California's general personal injury statute of limitations. Six months for claims involving a government entity. Don't confuse the statute of limitations with the evidence clock — much of the most important evidence (ELD, dashcam, dispatch records) can be destroyed long before two years are up. Call as soon as possible.

What if I was a passenger in a car hit by a truck? You almost certainly have a claim — passengers are rarely at fault. You can claim against the truck driver, the trucking company, the driver of the car you were in (if applicable), or some combination, depending on liability.

What if the truck driver was a contractor or owner-operator, not an employee of the carrier? The carrier can still be liable. Federal regulation creates expansive concepts of carrier responsibility — including the "logo liability" and "statutory employee" doctrines — that often hold a motor carrier responsible for the conduct of a driver operating under its authority, regardless of formal employment status.

What if the load shifted or fell off the truck? Cargo securement is heavily regulated under federal law. When a load shifts, falls, or comes off a trailer, both the driver and the loader (sometimes a separate company) typically share liability. Where the load was loaded by the shipper rather than the carrier, the shipper itself can be a defendant.

My loved one died in a Concord truck crash. What can our family recover? A wrongful death claim under California Code of Civil Procedure § 377.60 allows surviving family members — typically spouse, children, and in some cases parents and other dependents — to recover for the loss of love, companionship, support, and economic benefits the decedent would have provided. Truck-crash wrongful death cases involve some of the largest verdicts and settlements in California civil practice. Call us. We are here to help.

How much does it cost to hire a Concord truck accident lawyer? Nothing up front. We work on contingency — our fee comes out of the settlement or verdict, only if we win. We also front all case costs, including expert witnesses, accident reconstruction, and life-care planners. You pay nothing if we don't recover for you.

Why should I hire Scranton Law for a Concord truck case? 50+ years, $1B+ recovered, no fee unless we win, bilingual staff, free consultation, FMCSA-savvy case workup, and a track record of standing up to commercial trucking insurers. We're not a national lead-generation site — we're a real California PI firm with attorneys who try cases.

How fast can I talk to a lawyer? Right now. Call 1-800-707-0707, 24/7. You can also book a free case review online or use our case quiz.

Local Legal & Government Resources

• Contra Costa County Superior Court — Wakefield Taylor Courthouse, 725 Court Street, Martinez, CA 94553
• California DMV — Concord offices — for vehicle accident report requirements (SR-1 form)
• Oficina de Seguridad en el Tráfico de California — ots.ca.gov
• California Highway Patrol — Commercial Vehicle Section — chp.ca.gov
• FMCSA Safety Measurement System (SMS) — ai.fmcsa.dot.gov (public USDOT carrier records)
• FMCSA Carrier Lookup — safer.fmcsa.dot.gov

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