Trailer Expert Witnesses

What is a trailer expert witness?

Expert witness candidates specializing in trailers and trailer technology typically have extensive experience as mechanical engineers, accident investigation specialists, automotive engineers, and/or have experience as a truck drivers. Oftentimes, the selected expert is a member of an industry organization such as the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers and/or the North American Trailer Dealers Association. A trailer expert witness must not only have the requisite substantive expertise but also must possess the ability to explain evidence to a judge and jury.

What types of cases require a trailer expert witness?

A specialist in trailers and associated technology could provide expert testimony in a personal injury case, a product liability case, truck accident case, negligence, motor vehicle accident, or tractor trailer incident. Matters requiring expert witness service relating to trailers could also involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation, trade secret disputes or trade dress issues.

Trailer expert witness case examples

Exemplary cases include:

• towing apparatus forensic engineering,
• commercial motor vehicle trailer accessories,
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) heavy truck safety regulations,
• trucking company industry standards,
• human factors,
• tanker truck accident reconstruction,
• cargo standard of care,
• traffic safety, and
• hazardous materials handling (hazmat).

What litigation support work might a trailer expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by a trailer expert could include accident reconstruction, failure analyses, providing expert opinions, research and authoring expert reports, and expert witness testimony at deposition and at trial. In addition, clients may seek an automotive or trucking industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a trailer expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Trailer Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Trailer experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Trailer landscape.

• Expert Witness #254310

  This expert is a long-time collector and restoration expert of the earliest Willys- and Ford-manufactured MB and GPW world War II family of Jeeps; this expert purchased a 1942 Willys, MB, slat grill while still in high school. This expert has been a member of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) for many years, and serves as a Technical Advisor for Ton MB/GPW Jeeps and Converto Airborne Dump trailers. This expert also serves as a Judge at MPVA conventions. A Lead Special Operations Forces (SOF) Work Cell Controller for a defense contractor, responsible for the training of military personnel assigned to the SOF cell during War Fighter Exercises (WFX) and Mission Readiness Exercises (MRX), this expert authored a major revision of a GPW restoration guide. This expert is a contributor to MPVAs "Supply Line" publication and is recognized as an MB and GPW Jeep expert.

  
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• Expert Witness #256909

  This expert has a varied but specific experience in towing and trailering equipment, bumper pull and gooseneck hitches and safety chains for auxiliary connections. This expert is a member in the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers and the North American Trailer Dealers Association, with many years' experience in the automotive and towing/trailer field. This expert is widely recognized as the "guru" in the field having participated in safety standards committees and having consulted in numerous patent and product liability cases centered on towing and trailer accessories and the compatible OEM and Tier I supplier automotive designs. This expert has worked on over 60 cases and has testified in the ITC, PTAB, and numerous Federal District and state courts.

  
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• Expert Witness #256948

  This expert is Professor Emeritus in a College of Engineering. This expert has been retained in numerous cases nationally and internationally involving towing apparatus, passenger cars, trucks, ATCs, ATVs motorhomes and motorcycles. This expert is well-known and respected for expertise in braking systems, engine and electrical issues as well as fire cause and origin. This expert is a very credible mechanical engineer, with a Ph.D. and is a former professor whose career focus has been in the automotive field.

  
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• Expert Witness #256969

  This expert has focused a consulting, engineering and design practice on towing and trailering equipment, heavy equipment, mobile equipment, and oil/gas drilling equipment, much of which is hitch mounted. This expert has analyzed and performed testing on multiple trailer auxiliary connections (safety chains/cables) and has researched federal, state, and SAE standards for trailer auxiliary connections. This expert is a member of the NATM (National Association of Trailer Manufacturers) and NATDA (North American Trailer Dealers Association. This expert is responsible for ground up designs of 5^th wheel style trailers and has performed structural analyses on small and large flatbed trailers and enclosed utility trailers (bumper pull and gooseneck). This expert has also designed mounting platers, and various hitch-mounted products.

  
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• Expert Witness #261138

  This expert has many years' experience as a consultant and testifying expert in all CMV (Truck) matters from vehicle crashes to freight loading/off- loading matters, having handled over 1,000 of such freight cases. In addition to this expert's years of experience responding to and/or investigating truck crashes, this expert spent several years behind the wheel as an 18-wheeler CMV tractor-trailer driver. In this expert's overall driving experience, this expert was a driver of low-boys (flatbeds), dry-van trailers and cargo-tanks. During this expert's experience as a CMV operator, this expert became extensively experienced as to both driving, loading and offloading of van trailers, load securement on drop-decks (flatbeds) and cargo-tanks.   

  
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• Expert Witness #233950

  This mechanical engineering and accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a P.E. credential, and brings over 20 years of automotive engineering experience.

  This expert has analyzed and reconstructed crashes involving commercial vehicles, motorcycles, pedestrians, and off-road vehicles. These projects have involved human factors, visibility issues, and mechanical design issues. This expert's approach to vehicle crash analysis and reconstruction uses current software and simulation tools, as well as data acquisition tools.

  Over the course of this expert's career, this expert has authored numerous technical papers and articles, primarily in crash reconstruction, with additional work involving vibrations and acoustics. This expert was a co-instructor of an accident reconstruction methods continuing education seminar for more than a decade and is co-author of a book on vehicle accident analysis and reconstruction methods.

  This expert has experience with truck crash reconstruction, stationary tanker trailer catwalks, vehicle ladders, falls from height, and computer modeling of body motion in fall scenarios.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #238526

  This forensic engineering/accident reconstruction expert is a Professional Engineer (PE) and Certified Forensic Engineer with over 30 years of experience in heavy machinery safety and operations. This expert has OSHA training and certifications in crane operations and operator safety, and holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Design Engineering from a university.

  This expert has a Class A Commercial Driver's License and has driven tractor-trailer trucks with an instructor while in trucking school, with all major endorsements listed on the CDL, including a tanker endorsement. This expert has not driven commercial trucks professionally. This expert is familiar with catwalks on top of semi-trailers, especially tanker trailers, which are known to incorporate a catwalk across the top by design to provide a walking platform across the upper circumference of the trailer.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, has been deposed over 30 times, and has testified at trial on a number of occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #250342

  This mechanical engineering and heavy equipment truck safety expert is a Mechanical Engineer and Certified Safety Professional with decades of experience involving heavy equipment trucks. This expert holds a CDL Class C with HAZMAT endorsement and has spent several years working with a HAZMAT tanker trailer service and repair company reviewing, approving, and certifying designs as a DOT registered Design Certifying Engineer. The work included reviewing suggested repair plans, inspecting vehicles and equipment, checking compliance with DOT regulations in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, inspecting completed repairs, performing calculations, and providing certification documentation for trailer repairs involving hazardous materials.

  This expert has been retained in numerous matters as an expert witness and has been deposed multiple times.

  
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• Expert Witness #256950

  This trailer design expert holds a BSME and PE and specializes in towable equipment research and testing, crash investigation techniques and training, and developing test procedures.

  This expert writes, reviews, and updates product user instructions, a safe trailering driver education program, and related materials. This expert previously served in a senior engineering services role for a national moving and storage equipment company for over 40 years.

  This expert has represented a national company before legislative bodies, government agencies, and engineering associations, and has testified dozens of times. This expert also chaired a trailer committee of a prominent automotive engineering standards association and has been active on that committee for over 40 years.

  
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• Expert Witness #258998

  This trailer expert holds a PhD and PE and is a professor at a well-regarded technical university, with over 30 years of experience testifying about the design of trailers for commercial applications.

  This expert is a member of several committees and task forces within a prominent automotive engineering standards organization, including committees or task forces focused on trailers, gooseneck and fifth-wheel trailers, trailer dynamics, conventional towing systems up to 20,000 lbs, and trailer terminology.

  This expert has been deposed over 65 times and has provided courtroom testimony approximately 15 times.

  
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• Expert Witness #260922

  This truck cargo safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and has focused on logistics and warehousing matters during a career as an expert witness. This expert is a senior principal at a professional services consulting and advisory firm, providing expertise to corporations and law firms. This expert is a former dean at a military systems and logistics school and formerly commanded a logistics group.

  This expert is well-published and is a frequent presenter at business and academic conferences, establishing expertise in the field. This expert acts as a supply chain and logistics expert witness with over 40 years of experience in supply, transportation, sourcing, warehousing, trucking, and inventory control. This expert has extensive experience in warehouse operations, material handling, safety, manufacturing, hazardous material management, forklift operations and safety, warehouse and distribution center operations, truckload operations, and less-than-truckload operations.

  This expert has experience with trailers, trailer securement, load and weight distribution, and proper load balancing, including work involving pipe, bagged materials, and stone slabs. This expert has also addressed issues involving driver training, load securement, truck operation during hauling, and related cargo safety practices.

  
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• Expert Witness #268367

  This trailer expert has experience with trailer design. As a consulting engineer, this expert was contracted by a manufacturer of fuel storage tanks to design an interlock system that prevents a trailer from moving while it is used to refuel small aircraft. This expert has also worked as an expert witness on cases involving the design and fabrication of several types of trailers, including a matter in which a trailer separated from a vehicle, crossed a highway, and caused a fatal collision with an oncoming driver.

  This expert has substantial experience making towing devices called "dollies" through ownership of a company that built tow trucks and car carriers. This expert holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious university and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from another prestigious university. This expert is also a named inventor on a number of U.S. patents involving automotive lifting and towing apparatus.

  
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• Expert Witness #282321

  This DOT/federal motor carrier safety expert has held a senior leadership role at a transportation consulting firm and has over 30 years of experience in transportation safety.

  This expert has assisted organizations in package delivery, freight, waste management, and trailer manufacturing. This expert has extensive knowledge of DOT (Department of Transportation) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #283770

  This freight brokering expert holds a PhD and has decades of experience in trucking, trucking safety, freight brokering, cargo securement, motor carrier safety and risk management, accident investigation, and expert witness work.

  This expert has held senior safety and risk management roles for a major bulk motor carrier and has worked in investigative and accident investigation roles for a federal motor carrier safety agency.

  This expert's experience with trailer inspection duties and obligations includes a number of years as an owner-operator and transloading facility owner, including transloading and securing cargo such as heavy equipment, coils and plate steel, lumber, poles, and heavy machinery.

  This expert has also received training and inspected various types of equipment and cargo in federal motor carrier safety investigative roles, held senior safety and risk management positions for several motor carriers, and continued to provide industry training, consulting, accident investigation, and expert witness services for over 20 years.

  
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• Expert Witness #287189

  This damages expert has extensive experience calculating lost profits in a variety of industries both inside and outside of litigation, including testimony in a breach of contract matter involving lost profits for consumer trailer products.

  This expert has also calculated lost profits in matters involving restaurant and food-service businesses.

  
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