Texas Truck Accident Lawyers
Fighting for Maximum Compensation, No Fee Unless We Win
Video summary: Josh Alexander explains how the firm handles a Texas truck accident case, from locking down the carrier’s records in the first days to identifying every insurance policy in play. The same information is covered in text on this page. You can also watch this video on YouTube or call 469-807-7480 with questions.
Texas, unfortunately, takes the lead in truck accident cases.
In 2024 alone, Texas recorded more than 39,000 crashes involving commercial vehicles, injuring more than 1,500 and killing over 600 people. Texas held the largest number of deaths by truck accidents, more than any other state.
Due to trucks congesting the highways, those numbers are growing by the day.
This isn’t a one-year spike. TxDOT crash statistics and federal FMCSA data both show Texas has led the nation in fatal large truck crashes for multiple years running, not just the latest reporting period. More freight moving across a state this size means more exposure for everyone else sharing the same highways.
Sources: TxDOT 2024 Crash Facts; NHTSA FARS 2024; FMCSA 49 CFR Section 387.9Who is liable for a Texas truck accident?
Truck accidents lead to bigger claims and more responsibility spread throughout all parties. The driver isn’t the only one at fault, and mapping out that responsibility is what distinguishes a truck case from a car claim with a “bigger vehicle.”
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Party 1
The driver
Working long hours, being distracted, or driving outside federal hours of service.
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Party 2
The motor carrier
Lack of proper hiring and training, careless scheduling, and pressuring drivers to break service hour rules.
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Party 3
The freight broker
Picking carriers with poor federal safety records and setting unsafe delivery windows.
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Party 4
The shipment loader
Overloaded cargo and unbalanced containers that aren’t secured properly lead to more damage.
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Party 5
The maintenance company
Be it faulty brakes or bald tires, anything that is skipped through inspection can cause an accident.
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Party 6
The manufacturer
Defective truck parts of any kind fall under Texas product liability law.
Usually a car crash follows one policy, but in the case of a truck accident it can mean up to six different insurance policies. Finding every possible avenue is how we get the coverage you actually need.
How do you handle the trucking company’s insurer?
Commercial insurers live to defend claims. Our managing litigation attorney spent over a decade on that side, so we know how they think.
The trucking company has lawyers, you’ll need some too.
The trucking company is already protecting itself as soon as the crash happens. You’ll be waking up in a hospital bed wondering what happened, and the sooner you can get someone to fight by your side, the more your truth survives.
What evidence matters, and how fast does it disappear?
Winning a case means getting all the info that trucks leave behind after the accident and preserving every detail to use as evidence in court.
When a carrier knows there’s a claim coming, they will do everything to let the records expire in the dark. Having a lawyer send preservation demands before those records expire is key.
What is my Texas truck accident case worth?
There’s no honest average to give up front. Value depends on how severe the injury is and how much coverage exists across every defendant, but Texas law recognizes several categories of damages a truck claim can pursue.
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Economic damages
Medical bills and lost income
Past and future medical care, lost income, lost earning capacity if the injury changes what work you can do, and the cost of a totaled or damaged vehicle.
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Non-economic damages
Pain, suffering, and disability
Pain and suffering, disability, and disfigurement don’t come with a receipt, but Texas law allows a jury to put a value on what an injury costs beyond medical bills.
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Exemplary damages
When it goes beyond negligence
In cases of gross negligence, such as a carrier that knowingly let a driver run over federal hours-of-service limits, Texas law allows exemplary (punitive) damages on top of the rest.
Federal rule requires most 18-wheelers to carry at least $750,000 in coverage, and hazmat carriers up to $5 million (49 CFR Section 387.9). Layer in the broker, shipper, and maintenance company policies, and the total available coverage can run well past that. Texas’s modified comparative fault rule (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Section 33.001) also plays a role, since your own share of fault can reduce, or past 51 percent bar, what you recover. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Major carrier involved in your truck accident?
We play in the realm of the largest operating fleets in Texas; bigger carrier names equate to bigger legal teams on the other side.
These carriers run their own claims departments, keep defense firms on retainer, and can have an investigator on scene within hours of the crash documenting the version of events that favors them. Matching that means preserving evidence just as fast, pulling the carrier’s own safety and inspection history, and knowing how each of these fleets typically handles a claim before we ever pick up the phone.
A word from our founder
Before founding J. Alexander Law, our managing attorney spent over a decade on the defense side, representing trucking companies and their insurers. That’s the same experience behind our approach to handling the trucking company’s insurer, and it’s why every truck case here starts with locking down evidence instead of waiting to see what the other side produces.
The trucking company is already protecting its driver’s records within hours of the crash. The whole case comes down to who locks down the data first. My job is to make sure we’re first, and you can rest as we work.
Learn the law before you call.
Free guides, real client stories, and tools written by our attorneys. Each one answers a question injured Texans ask us after a truck crash, in plain language, at no cost.
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Case value
What a Texas truck case is worth
Why no single average holds, how adjusters actually price a truck claim, and what pushes serious cases past one million dollars.
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Rear-ended by a semi
Rear-ended by a semi: your next days
What happens after a semi hits you from behind, who starts out at fault under Texas law, and why the first days decide the claim.
See what to do after a semi hit -
Failure to yield
When a truck fails to yield and lies
A trucker we represent, a driver who turned across his path, and the dashcam that got the other driver a ticket on the scene.
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Sideswipe
An 18-wheeler sideswiped Alondra
An 18-wheeler took the whole side of her car. How a sideswipe claim against a carrier came together and what it was worth.
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Chest injury
A trailer threw her car 300 feet
A semi rear-ended Elvira in stopped traffic. How her chest injury claim against the carrier resolved in seven months.
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Disc injury
A semi T-boned Edith at a red light
The truck kept rolling her car. How we connected her herniated disc to the crash when the insurer called it preexisting.
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Catastrophic
A truck threw Lauren into traffic
When a truck crash changes a whole life, the claim has to count that life. What a catastrophic injury case must cover.
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Wrongful death
When a truck crash takes a life
Texas leads the nation in fatal truck crashes. Who can bring a wrongful death claim and what it covers for the family.
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Legal fees
How contingency fees work
Zero dollars up front and no fee unless we win. Where every dollar of a truck settlement actually goes, line by line.
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Free tool
Truck crash injuries by speed
Our free visualizer maps the injuries a truck impact causes by body zone and speed, including the rear-end scenario.
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Free tool
The most dangerous Texas intersections
A free map of the Texas intersections where the worst crashes concentrate, built from state crash records.
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Free tool
Is the carrier’s offer fair?
Enter the offer and your damages, and our free analyzer shows how the number compares to what Texas law lets you claim.
Analyze your settlement offer
Hit by a truck in Texas? Let’s see how we can help you.
The carrier is already moving. The sooner you do, the more of the evidence you need survives. Let’s have an honest talk about where you are. The review is free, and you owe nothing until we win.