Commercial Trucking Industry Expert for Distribution Contract Dispute

An expert in the commercial trucking industry was requested as a consultant on a breach of contract action between a chain of retail stores and the distribution company that supplied them. The plaintiff picked up goods from the defendant’s warehouse and transported them to its own warehouse where the goods were sorted, repacked, and shipped to the customer’s retail stores. The main issue revolved around the “density of packing” of the goods as they were loaded from defendant’s warehouse onto the plaintiff’s trucks. Specifically, the issue was the density in shipping versus the weight in shipping. There was a “deficit weight charge” determined by the density of the goods as they were loaded. The trucking company was paid by the hundredweight for shipping and, apparently, if the goods were more densely packed the number of hundredweight increased.

A litigation consultant was required to educate counsel regarding the contract, which contained several “terms of art” specific to the trucking industry. IMS ExpertServices™ was charged with providing a commercial trucking industry expert with extensive experience in supply chain management who was extremely familiar with the terms of art used in redistribution contracts for the trucking industry.

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Transportation & Logistics Expert

This commercial trucking industry expert knows and uses the “terms of art” of the trucking industry and has the requisite years of experience in transportation, distribution, and re-distribution, logistics, motor carrier transportation, fleet operations, and supply chain management and design. He has held executive positions at several major trucking and distribution companies. He is frequently called upon to review and advise on logistic and transportation issues. He has also devised private fleet distribution systems for merchandise delivery to stores and dealers. IMS Reference #4993952

Trucking Industry Expert

This commercial trucking industry expert is a 35-year veteran of the national trucking industry. While he currently works nationwide as a trucking industry consultant, his earlier work was for companies located in the southeastern US. Most recently he has been teaching trucking safety seminars and accident investigation seminars for the numerous state trucking associations to which he belongs. He has been consulting with trucking industry fleet operations, and has been also performing litigation support services. IMS Reference #3044897