Does your firm need a trucking expert that will make the difference?

FRI provides the nation’s leading expertise on the work, pay, and hours of service logging practices of truck drivers. For more than a decade, FRI has provided advice, research, expert witness reports and expert witness testimony for precedent setting trucking cases in state and federal courts. 

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FRI can:

• Help evaluate potential wage and hour and accident cases and strategy;

• Guide effective discovery requests and depositions;

• Interpret hours of service, pay and other data sources and explain what can be done with them;

• Explain carrier hours of service, pay, and employment policies and practices important for safety;

• Reconstruct driver work and e-log practices relative to wage and hour issues and hours of service;

• Reconstruct driver and carrier behavior before accidents;

• Provide expert reports and testimony on:

  • Truck Driver Wages and Hours

  • Truck Driver Training Programs

  • Truck Driver Labor Markets

  • Truck Driver Hours of Service Compliance

  • Truck Leasing Arrangements

  • Economic Realities of Independent Contractors in Trucking

 

Attorney Feedback:

• “Hands down the best expert I’ve ever worked with.” Wrongful death case

• “We were staring at a jumble of unintelligible data produced by the defendants. You helped us understand what it all meant.” State unemployment insurance action

• “I have never seen such a contrast between expert witnesses in my career. The other side had a professional expert witness, we had the national expert on the issues.” Wage and hour class action

• “Very effective in front of the jury.” Wage and hour class action

• “It’s incredibly helpful to have an economic analysis rather than the purely legal one that is ingrained in my brain. Hopefully, someday, there will be a successful result in [this] case and if there is, I suspect it will be because the court of appeals will be impressed with your analysis.” Wage and hour class action

• “I was citing you a lot during the hearing!” Successful defense of state law

• “Thank you again for all your help on this case, for your great amicus brief, for all of the calls where you patiently told me everything I needed to know about the industry...Seriously, your help was invaluable.” Successful SCOTUS ruling