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Trucking & Warehousing Experts

Trucking and warehousing safety are often critical issues in disputes involving vehicle crashes, workplace injuries, and cargo losses. Our trucking operations experts bring decades of professional experience as truck drivers, warehouse terminal managers, and fleet operators to each investigation.

Trucking & Warehousing Operations
and Fleet Management

Among our trucking and warehousing experts you will find professionals who have spent years as truck drivers, warehouse terminal managers, transportation safety managers, and fleet managers.

Our trucking industry experts are frequently tasked with evaluating truck driver actions, driver logs, hiring practices, drug and alcohol testing programs, load securement, loading dock operations, lift truck operations & training, fleet management, and much more.

Our trucking and warehousing experts investigate a range of issues including:

  • CDL driver hiring and training standards
  • Trucker driver actions
  • Driver logbooks / driver fatigue
  • DOT and OSHA compliance
  • Forklift and loading dock incidents
  • Load securement / improper loading-unloading
  • Cargo damage and theft claims

Investigations Beyond Trucking Operations

The experts at Robson Forensic investigate the full range of issues related to commercial trucking. In addition to our experts specializing in trucking operations we also have technical experts who specialize in crash reconstruction, vehicle and roadway engineering, human performance, injury analysis, and toxicology.

Our vehicle and roadway engineers have direct, professional experience in the design, manufacture, and repair of heavy trucks, buses, and motor homes. Our team of experts is capable of performing complex crash reconstruction as well as crashworthiness analyses, and analysis of roadways and transportation facilities.

We also offer in-house expertise in many specialty areas of science that are frequently disputed in commercial trucking cases. Robson Forensic employs an impressive group of scientists and engineers specializing in fields such as human factors, tire failure analysis, injury biomechanics, toxicology, and meteorology.

Vehicle Evidence & Testing

Robson Forensic offers a fully appointed mechanical testing laboratory to assist our clients with the inspection of evidence related to vehicle crash cases. Our lab facilities can accommodate evidence as large as complete vehicles, as well as smaller vehicle components or traffic guidance devices. Visit our Mechanical Testing Laboratory page for more information.

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Forklift Falls from Loading Docks

By Jeffrey A. Boesger
Expert Article

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Injuries & Fatalities Involving Non-CDL Commercial Drivers

By Timothy M. Bussard
Expert Article

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Dock Leveler Operation

By Jeffrey A. Boesger
Expert Article

Dock levelers are devices used to bridge the gap between a loading dock and the bed of a truck/trailer during loading and unloading. Because the working height of trailers and loading docks can vary,…

Heavy Truck Tire Failures

By Richard Sherman & Mark Respass
Expert Article

Among the various types of mechanical failures that a commercial truck may experience, brake loss and tire failure are the two that are most likely to cause a crash. This article discusses the…

Heavy Truck Air Brake System Failures

By Steven K. Malek & Jeffrey A. Boesger
Expert Overview

Brake systems on commercial trucks function differently than conventional passenger car brakes and have different requirements for inspection and maintenance. Here we review the basics of heavy truck…

School Bus Operations

By Jeffrey A. Boesger
Expert Article

School bus drivers have specific responsibilities for protecting the safety of students and the public. In this article, Jeffrey Boesger discusses the standard of care for school bus operators as it…