Stop talking to them. Their rapid-response team exists to limit what the company pays you. From now on, they deal with your lawyer.
Jimmy personally reviews every submission — most people hear back the same day.
Large carriers and their insurers run rapid-response programs precisely so that contact happens early — before you have a diagnosis, before you know the extent of your injuries, and before you have a lawyer.
The person calling may be genuinely kind. They may offer to handle your rental, cover a medical bill, or send a check for your lost week. That does not change who employs them and what they are measuring.
A recorded statement taken while you are medicated and have no diagnosis. A signed medical authorization broad enough to reach your whole history rather than this crash. An early release for a small sum, which permanently closes a claim nobody has valued yet. And information — about your injuries, your finances, and how urgently you need money.
That last one matters more than people realize. A claimant who mentions they are behind on rent has just told the other side how long they can afford to wait.
While you are being called, the company's investigators may already have been to the scene, downloaded the truck's engine control module, photographed the vehicles, and interviewed the driver with counsel present. That is not improper. It is just a head start, and it is why the response to the call is to get your own side moving rather than to negotiate.
Under 49 CFR 395.8(k)(1), a motor carrier must retain records of duty status and supporting documents for not less than six months. Not forever — six months is the floor. Dashcam and telematics data are often overwritten far sooner, sometimes within days, and a repaired or salvaged tractor can take its ECM data with it.
A spoliation letter demanding preservation needs to reach the carrier while that material still exists. Once it is gone, the argument becomes about why it is gone, which is a much worse position than simply having it.
You can be polite. Confirm nothing about your injuries or fault, give no recorded statement, sign nothing, and end it: "My attorney will be in touch." Then write down who called, from what company, and when.
Authority: 49 CFR 395.8(k)(1)
No statement, no signature, no description of your injuries. \u201cMy attorney will be in touch.\u201d
Name, company, phone, date. It matters later.
ELD and duty records have a six-month floor; footage can be gone in days.
It closes the claim permanently, before anyone knows what your injuries will cost.
Rear-endings, intersection crashes, uninsured drivers, hit-and-runs — in Houston, El Paso, and everywhere in between.
Federal regulations, black-box data, driver logs, multiple insurers. We move fast to preserve evidence before it disappears.
Hurt on the job for a non-subscriber employer, or injured by a third party at a job site? Texas gives you real options.
When the worst happens, we pursue accountability for surviving families with the care and seriousness it deserves.
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Every day you wait, evidence disappears and the insurer gets ahead. One free call. Straight answers about your case — in English or Spanish. If you need a fighter, you'll have one. If you don't, I'll tell you that too.
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