Hit and Run Truck Driver

If the trailer is identifiable you should be able to have a digital photography shop peel a few frames off that video and adjust contrast, color, and sharpness for the best possible image. Find a local mom and pop shop that does digital prints and photography. Probably won’t take them more than an hour. I’m guessing $80 but they may take pitty and charge less. Best of luck.

 

It should not be a problem if that truck is satellite equipped to call San Diego, the home of Qualcomm, make a box around Dinwiddle for your specific accident date and time and collect all trucks currently reported position within that box at that date and hour.

Each one will be checked until they find the one with the damage etc. It only takes a few key strokes and a few moments to question a qualcomm equipped truck to learn where it is anywhere on the planet to 10 feet any time.

ESPECIALLY if that said truck logged that really serious hard braking and impact and sent remote warnings electronically to it's company shop boss and safety computers for investigation.

There are a number of labs that will enhance that video and so on and come up with some clues. They are quite good. You might have to pay for it. Add that to the recovery lawsuit against the guilty party.

 

As I stated, that is the problem with 1/2-ton trucks...they have weight-bearing axles. When the axle carries the load, when it breaks, you're done. I wasn't saying YOU could've put YOUR truck in 4wd and rolled to a safer place. I was simply pointing out that you bought the wrong kind of truck to do actual work. With a 3/4 ton or larger truck that has full floating axles, the axle shaft's ONLY job is to spin the tire, NOT support any of the weight you're carrying. If it breaks, the wheel is still attached and free to spin, maintains alignment, and short of possible shrapnel in the rear end from the broken shaft wedging itself into the gears, you could roll with it like that without damaging anything. Pull both axle shafts and the rear drive shaft and the gears won't spin, thereby eliminating that threat.

 

That information isn't going to be given out with a simple phone call. Want that data? You'll have to get a subpoena for it...and even that might not work.do you know how many different tracking companies there are? Might not have even had a tracker on the truck! You'd have better luck with the phone companies finding out who was in the area...but again, subpoena required. With all of the trouble and bad publicity these companies receive when some hacker breaks in and steals data, it would be 1000 times worse if they willing handed over that info to some stranger on the phone. It ain't gonna happen.