Rules exist because trucks are dangerous
Commercial trucking runs on federal safety rules for one reason: an 80,000-pound truck in the wrong hands is a public danger. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are promises — to every officer working a shoulder, every family in the next lane — about training, attention, following distance, and fitness to drive.
When a trucking company’s driver rear-ended a Houston police officer, the case was built rule by rule on the specific regulations the company broke. Not negligence in the abstract — numbered promises, broken in the particular.
The recovery
We recovered $550,000 for the officer. In his own words, on camera: they all worked so hard — they did an outstanding job.
He’s also the reason this firm built a practice for injured officers: the Houston officer hurt on duty by a third party has remedies most departments never explain.
Chase Myrick, Houston Police Officer
What the evidence showed
- The case was built on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations the company violated.
- The company’s driver rear-ended a working Houston police officer.
- Specific FMCSA regulations — not abstract negligence — anchored the liability case.
- The recovery: $550,000.
The rules, and the recovery
Federal trucking rules are promises made to everyone on the road. Cases like this one are how the promises get kept.
More from the record
Every case is different. Prior results depend on the facts of the individual case and do not guarantee a similar outcome.