Freight Expert Witnesses
Depending on the subject and specifics of the case, a freight expert witness typically has a background in transportation, supply chain management, trucking, logistics and/or distribution. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, an attorney may request a specialist with prior expert witness experience. The selected expert may be a member of an industry organization such as the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA), or the Association for Supply Management (ASCM).
Matters requiring the expertise of a freight expert witness might encompass an intellectual property lawsuit (such as trade secret, patent infringement, trademark infringement), breach of contract issues, or import/export cases involving the International Trade Commission (ITC). Personal injury cases or truck accident investigation work are also areas where a freight specialist could provide expertise.
Litigation support by a freight expert witness could include arbitration, depositions, an expert report, expert opinion testimony, damages calculation, and expert witness testimony in court. It essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the factual evidence. In addition, clients may seek a freight expert, trucking industry expert, or transportation industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
When the need for a freight expert witness arises, top law firm clients call on Cahn Litigation Services, as history has shown that the firm has the experience required to turn an expert witness search around quickly and provide the right balance of expertise and testimony to support each specific project and its nuances. Representing the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for expert witnesses with specialized knowledge in freight issues. Past cases have included matters involving logistics, railroad operations, trucking company operations, accident reconstruction, freight forwarding, transportation, warehousing, supply chain security, inventory management, DOT compliance, maritime law and a freight broker dispute.
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Freight Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Freight experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Freight landscape.
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.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #259208
This expert has been in the Railroad Industry for many years, primarily in the Engineering Department of inter-city and freight railroads. This expert's duties have included the construction, maintenance, and inspection of track including all the structures that go along with that (including at-grade crossings). This expert has been involved in the construction of at-grade crossings, inspected at-grade crossings for compliance with local, state, federal laws, and internal standards of care.
This expert has been designated by rail transit authorities on behalf of the plaintiff in the past and has served as the expert on more than one case involving a bicyclist being injured while traversing an at-grade crossing.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #261210
This expert is the principal owner of a freight/cargo consulting firm. This expert is a full-time consultant and Expert in exclusively the Packaging, Warehousing, Distribution and Transportation Industries. This expert has run a distribution center with this expert's own fleet of trucks as well as contract carriers and has served as an expert witness specifically in load securement and load offloading matters. This expert's testimony has never been excluded and this expert has never faced a Daubert challenge. This expert is well-published and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #260841
This expert is an Independent consultant specializing in cross-border transactions, customs & export compliance, freight forwarding, and logistics. This expert is a Licensed Customs Broker who has spent a career in the import/export and transportation industry. Specifically, this expert has experience in cross- border transaction between Mexico and U.S. working for multinational corporations managing the import and export activities and complying with both U.S. and Mexican import and export laws. This expert has direct experience in managing U.S. goods returned and the NAFTA laws and the Maquiladora duty free operation in Mexico. This expert is involved in the Professional Association of Exporters and Importers and is a presenter at industry conferences. Before a consulting career this expert held responsible positions (i.e. Director of Global Trade) at well-known companies.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #246058
This transportation expert has over 50 years of experience in transportation, including trucking-company ownership, regional motor-carrier operations, trucking and distribution management, college-level transportation and business instruction, and consulting and expert-witness work. This expert is a Distinguished Logistics Professional (DLP) and Certified in Transportation, Logistics, and Distribution (CTL&D).
This expert's experience includes regulatory compliance, transportation economics, motor carrier and driver safety and operations, freight broker operations, loss and damage claims, contracts, rates and leases, warehousing, and traffic management.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #267352
This freight broker expert leads a consultancy focused on third-party logistics, domestic transportation management, and freight brokerage, with expertise in freight brokerage and carrier onboarding process review.
This expert's organization has produced a leading industry resource on digitization, modern freight brokerage, digital freight matching, and automation in domestic transportation management. This expert has developed and implemented transportation and logistics systems and has spearheaded startup logistics operations for large corporate customers.
This expert has prior expert testimony experience, is well-published in the industry, and is a frequent invited speaker.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #280233
This railroad operations and logistics expert holds an M.A. degree focused on freight logistics, including truck, maritime, and rail modal competition. This expert's career began with over 5 years as a state and metropolitan planning organization goods movement planner, including some passenger rail assignments, followed by a number of years of business model consolidation and M&A assignments with a federal railway organization. This expert was assigned a federal task involving a rescue plan for several failed northeastern railroad companies.
This expert spent over 20 years in strategic planning inside a major freight railroad, including strategic due diligence assignments supporting legal work. This expert served for a number of years as board chair of a railway telematics RFID organization and completed a number of years of consulting work, along with over 15 years of international and domestic civil engineering and economic analysis work involving railroads across North America, Western Europe, Asia, and West Africa. Most recently, this expert has worked as a business analysis opinion journalist for industry publications, with over 100 business assessment columns published.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #283778
This freight brokering expert holds a PhD and has experience with freight brokering that includes creating, licensing, insuring, and operating a number of separate brokerage operations within multiple companies. This expert also regularly worked with freight brokers and represented employers in those interactions.
This expert is familiar with the process commonly used by freight brokers when adding a new carrier, either for a single load or contractually for an ongoing business partnership, and understands the information and data brokers request initially and on an ongoing basis, as well as the methods and systems they use to monitor carriers.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #286971
This shipping finance expert holds a Ph.D. in Finance, an M.Sc. in Shipping, Trade, and Finance, and a B.Sc. in Economics, and is a professor of shipping finance and risk management at a leading business school.
This expert has expertise in the application of quantitative-based methods in shipping, including valuation of freight derivative contracts, cash-flow modeling of shipping projects, shipping finance, shipping equities, and alternative forms of shipping finance.
This expert specializes in shipping finance, performing research, lecturing, and consulting on topics such as freight contract and ship valuation, shipping risk management, and chartering.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #299728
This transportation and truck loading expert is a logistics subject matter expert with over 40 years of experience as a consultant and operating executive in the shipping industry. Career experience includes work with large freight carriers and trucking operations, including flatbed trailers.
This expert has managed flatbed operations involving over-dimension freight in the United States and Canada and is very familiar with load securement and driver training. This expert has written a number of expert witness reports for arbitration matters, including testimony and cross-examination, and is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #304428
This international shipping expert has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including tanker freight rates, crude oil pricing, oil marketing, tanker chartering, ship-to-ship transfers, and crude oil valuation.
This expert has experience in disputes concerning the hedging of tanker freight rates and has advised oil producers on crude oil pricing using Middle Eastern crude grades as pricing benchmarks. In a senior oil marketing role at an oil and gas company, this expert's team managed time charters for offtake and storage tankers with frequent ship-to-ship transfers.
This expert has provided valuation analysis for cargoes of Middle Eastern crude oil and has been involved in projects concerning the trading and term purchase of Iranian crude oil, including work involving a prominent national oil company in Iran.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #304449
This international shipping expert is a highly seasoned oil trade and operations analyst with over 20 years' experience in the energy industry, having occupied various roles involving strategic project origination and implementation in upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors, physical oil trade, offshore marine logistics, alternative energy, financing, and risk management.
This expert is well versed in international shipping, freight rates, and tanker operations.
Start Freight Expert SearchExpert Witness #305329
This marine insurance expert has over 40 years of wet marine experience, principally in Ocean Cargo coverage, Hull & Machinery, and Protection & Indemnity (P&I) for tug and barge fleets. As a marine broker, this expert has designed, marketed, and serviced Builder's Risks, Ship Repairers, Charterer's, Wharfinger's/Landing Owner's, Bumbershoots, Offshore Packages, and Freight Forwarder coverages, including Air Cargo Legal, NVOCC, Warehousemen's Liability, and Freight Forwarder's E&O.
This expert also has extensive experience handling large and difficult marine claims.
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