Trailer and truck forensic engineering
When a trailer or truck part fails, a load shifts or a rig rolls over, forensic engineering finds out why. Analysis is built on the same statics, axle-load and bridge-formula work used in trailer design, and carried out by Dustin Randle.
Forensic services
Trailer & Truck Failure Analysis
Why a frame, crossmember, hitch, kingpin, fifth wheel, suspension, axle or weld failed, worked out from the evidence and the loads.
Learn more →Overloading, Weight Distribution & Load-Shift Investigations
What each axle and axle group carried, whether it was legal, and how load position or load shift played a part.
Learn more →Accident & Rollover Contributing-Factor Review
The trailer-engineering side of an accident or rollover: load, center of gravity, axle loads, coupling and structure.
Learn more →Insurance Claim & Warranty Dispute Support
Independent engineering on cause, overload versus defect, and repair scope for claims and warranty disputes.
Learn more →Expert Reports, Consulting & Testimony Support
Written expert reports, consulting on the engineering issues, and testimony support for attorneys and insurers.
Learn more →Who we work with
Attorneys, insurers and adjusters, fleets, owners and owner-operators, and trailer manufacturers.
How a matter starts
- Intake. Send the basic facts: case type, date, the trailer or truck, your role and any deadline.
- Conflict check and scope. Fit, conflicts and a proposed scope are confirmed before any work starts.
- Evidence and analysis. Documents, photos and parts are reviewed, and loads and capacities are calculated.
- Findings. Verbal findings, a written report, or testimony support, as agreed.
Preserve the evidence
If you can, keep failed parts, the trailer, scale tickets, bills of lading and photos as they are until the scope is agreed. Please send only basic facts until the conflict check is complete.
Have a failure, loss or case to discuss?
Send the basic facts through the case intake form. You will get a reply about fit, conflicts and next steps before any work starts.
Open the case intake form