08/15/2026
A commercial truck carries its own witnesses. A camera facing the road. A black box logging speed and braking. A GPS system pinging its location mile after mile. None of them wait around for a lawsuit to get filed.
Camera footage on these trucks typically loops and records over itself within days to weeks, depending on the carrier's system. The onboard computer holding crash data can lose it too, especially if the truck gets driven or serviced before anyone pulls the file. Federal rules require carriers to keep certain logs for months, and maintenance records typically longer, but the raw telematics and GPS data behind those systems often cycles out on a much shorter clock.
What actually protects that evidence isn't a polite request. It's a formal notice, a spoliation letter, telling the carrier they're required to preserve it.
Before that data gets overwritten for good, call us: 941-559-4529.
