FedEx tractor-trailers, including double-trailer rigs, run Illinois interstates around the clock moving freight between hubs. In a FedEx semi-truck accident at highway speed, the physics are merciless and the injuries are usually catastrophic. These cases are true truck accident cases, with federal safety regulations, layered insurance, and corporate defendants who start working the file immediately. So should your lawyers.
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The tractor pulling FedEx trailers is often operated not by FedEx but by a contracted linehaul business, a separate trucking company running FedEx freight under contract. The driver works for that business. Its insurance is on the line. And the questions that decide the value of the case, including who controlled the schedule, who maintained the equipment, and whose safety rules applied, run through both companies. We pursue every entity in that chain, and FedEx itself where the facts support it.
Interstate carriers and their drivers operate under federal motor carrier safety regulations: hours-of-service limits, drug and alcohol testing, vehicle inspection and maintenance requirements, and driver qualification standards. Violations are evidence. Our Illinois truck accident page covers this regulatory framework in depth, and it applies with full force to FedEx linehaul operations, including the data we move immediately to preserve: electronic logging device records, telematics, dashcam footage, and maintenance files.
FedEx linehaul commonly runs twin trailers. Doubles are longer, less stable in wind and in evasive maneuvers, and less forgiving of driver error than a standard rig. When a doubles configuration is involved in your crash, handling, loading, and speed become central liability questions that demand reconstruction experts early.
Highway-speed truck crashes produce the injuries our firm exists to litigate: brain injuries, spinal cord damage, amputations, burns, and deaths. A catastrophic injury case must recover the full lifetime cost of what was taken, and a wrongful death case must account for everything a family lost. We prepare every one of these cases for trial. Illinois has no caps on compensatory damages, economic or non-economic, in personal injury and wrongful death cases: in Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, 237 Ill. 2d 217 (2010), the Illinois Supreme Court struck down statutory caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, holding the cap “violates the separation of powers clause” and “effects an unconstitutional legislative remittitur.” The number we build reflects what recovery actually requires: initial treatment at a Level I trauma center, rehabilitation at facilities like the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, home and vehicle modifications, and attendant care for as long as the injury lasts.
That is the linehaul contractor. It is a real defendant with real insurance, and its relationship with FedEx is exactly what we dig into. Bring the report to us and we will map the entities for you at no charge.
Immediately. Carriers are typically required to keep certain records only for limited periods, and electronic data gets overwritten in the ordinary course of business. A preservation letter needs to go out in days, not months. Venue matters too: under 735 ILCS 5/2-101, suit is generally proper where a defendant resides or where part of the transaction occurred, so a FedEx linehaul crash on I-55, I-80, or I-88 may belong in Cook, Will, or DuPage County, and that choice affects jury pools and timelines.
Start with the FedEx accident overview for the full corporate picture, or the delivery van page if your crash involved a package van rather than a tractor-trailer.
FedEx linehaul cases like these are one part of our Illinois commercial vehicle accident practice, which covers every kind of work vehicle on Illinois roads.
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John D. Risvold is an equity partner at Collins Law Group, P.C. in Naperville, Illinois. He represents individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, focusing on commercial trucking crashes, rideshare and autonomous vehicle litigation, medical malpractice and birth injury, and product defect claims. He has tried cases to verdict in Illinois courts, recovered more than $50 million for clients over thirteen years of practice, and has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation and Illinois Super Lawyers.
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