Brooks has spent his entire adult career in trucking, warehousing, and logistics. After 13 years and 1.5 million accident free miles as a professional tractor-trailer driver, he turned his attention and efforts towards trucking and warehousing safety. Brooks specializes in trucking and warehousing related accident and injury investigations.
He has received several hundred hours of training in DOT and OSHA regulations and has investigated hundreds of trucking and warehousing related accidents and injuries for several of the nation’s largest trucking firms. Brooks has worked in a variety of management positions within the transportation industry, including as Safety and Risk Manager.
Some of Brooks’ core areas of expertise include CDL driver hiring and training standards, driver logbooks / driver fatigue, DOT and OSHA compliance, forklift and loading dock incidents, load securement / improper loading-unloading, cargo damage and theft claims.
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Load Securement - Expert Investigates Pharmaceutical Cargo Loss
Two tanks of pre-market pediatric vaccine toppled over and were destroyed while being transferred from a production facility in Canada to a testing facility in the United States. The vaccine was transported by a third party trucking company that specializes in refrigerated transportation of goods for the pharmaceutical industry. The loss was valued at approximately $750,000 US. Robson Forensic trucking expert, Brooks Rugemer, was retained to evaluate the cargo pick-up and securement procedures of the trucking company to determine if their actions were a cause of the loss.
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- Fatal Tractor-Trailer Accident Results in $3.5 Million Verdict
Brooks Rugemer - Commercial Trucking Specialist
A federal jury awarded nearly $3.5 million to the widow of a 26-year-old man who was killed instantly when the tractor-trailer he was repairing lurched forward because
the driver allegedly pressed the ignition button while it was still in gear.
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- In 2007 Motor Vehicle Collisions Resulted in Excess of 40,000 Fatalities
In 2007 motor vehicle collisions resulted in excess of 40,000 fatalities
and almost 2,500,000 injuries, according to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration’s website. It is often important to
determine both how a crash occurred and the underlying causes
of both the crash and resultant injury.
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