Welcome to the Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney website. Our law firm has been recognized throughout the United States as a group of lawyers that represents truck drivers and their families due to the negligence of manufacturers of heavy trucks.  Many of your fellow truckers suffer life-altering injuries or even death each year due to manufacturers cutting corners and trying to save a few dollars.  While there is not much we can do as people to change the past, we can help make the future for a truckers family more comfortable.  As an example, read about a $9,000,000 dollar verdict we obtained for an Arizona widow after her husband died in a fire because his sleeper cab was not equipped with an emergency exit as standard equipment like the majority of Class 8 tractors.  He was unhurt in the accident but died due to a lack of an emergency exit.  Sadly, this $350 option would have saved his life.

Click Here, to read our main page on truck fires, crashworthiness and other defects.

Did you know?

1. That manufacturers like, Freightliner, Mack and Volvo DO NOT have to follow the same Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards as car manufacturers to make sure your truck is crashworthy when involved in an accident?

2. That fire fatality rate for truckers is 15 times the rate of passenger car occupants?

3. Your risk for suffering a fatal injury in a truck accident increases 10 times when fire is involved?

4. There are about 200 fatalities each year that could be avoided if manufacturers would just take the proper steps to make tractors safe?

5. Did you know that the alternative designs that would prevent most heavy truck fire fatalities have been well-known and available since the 1960s?
 
What you can do if you or someone you know has been injured or killed?

Unfortunately, we are not able to turn back the clock of time and prevent an injury or death.  But we are able to help a trucker's family for the future.  To pay for medical expenses for the injured, or to help get the money so a son or daughter can go to college.   If you or someone you know has been injured or killed while driving their truck anywhere in the nation, and you would like to speak with an experienced attorney that can answer your questions, call us at 800-349-0004 to confer with a lawyer at no charge. 

You may also use our contact form to email our lawyers directly 24 hours a day.