Scott L Turner Consulting, LLC    908-496-4273
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Scott L Turner's
highly qualified and well rounded expert opinion is supported by over 20 years experience in the highly specialized field of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) wrecks and collisions, including 17 years as a working CEO of a nationwide CMV crash recovery team and major disaster response and recovery, with or without hazardous material involvement. Further, Turner's extensive field experience is supported by the highest levels of training; such as, but not limited to: Level 1 FMCSA Inspections; CMV Crash Inspections and Investigations; Cargo Tank Truck Specialist; and, HazMat Specialist (see CV section for further details).

In addition to Turner's 20 plus years experience responding to and/or investigating CMV wrecks, Turner spent several years behind the wheel as an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer driver. In this capacity he was a driver of low-boys (flat beds), dry-van trailers and tankers. During Turner's experience as a CMV operator, he became extensively experienced as to both driving, loading and off-loading of van trailers, low-boys (flat beds) and cargo tanks with an approximate mileage of 250,000.   

During the nearly 25 years detailed above, Turner was an instructor for 11 years for the New Jersey State Police. In this specific discipline Turner was a CMV wreck and incident specialist instructor for cargo-tank truck responses, and as a HazMat instructor with a focus on tractor-trailer wrecks.

Turner's career of service includes response and/or investigation to well in-excess of 1,000 tractor trailer wrecks, 200 cargo-tank truck wrecks and/or incidents and a multitude of industrial setting incidents, railroad, maritime and airline disasters. 

Turner's in-depth understanding of the FMCSA Regulations, industry standards of care, detailed and comprehensive report writing and equally powerful delivered testimony can be a focal point of any civil or criminal litigation or arbitration, where CMV wrecks, with or without hazardous material involvement and/or transit incidents are at issue.

The services of Turner are, but not limited to:

  • Litigation support
  • Trial preparation consulting
  • Deposition and Courtroom Testimony
  • Pre-deposition support  
  • CMV accident investigation, analysis and re-creation
  • CMV post wreck FMCSA inspections 
  • Cargo-tank truck wrecks, spills and explosions
  • Cargo-tank loading/offloading events
  • Driver Hours-of-Service
  • Driver Qualification Files 
  • NIMBY Hazmat/Environmental cases
  • Maritime Hazmat incidents
  • Highway construction zone wrecks
  • CMV loading and off loading investigation
  • Industrial trucks/lift trucks
  • Large HazMat incident cost audits

As a Level 1 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) trained inspector and Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration-Hazardous Materials Regulations (PHMSA-HMR) trained inspector, Turner speciailzes in applicable federal regulations and industry standards of care within that of the trucking industry; furthermore, cross-over OSHA regulations.

Specifically, but not limited to, Turner applies many relevant standards to cases that he is engaged, also known as "standard setters":

  • American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)
  • Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
  • North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI)
  • University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
  • National Safety Council (NSC)
  • Compressed Gas Association (CGA)
  • Institute of Police Technology and Management (IPTM)
  • Smith-System Driver Improvement Institute
  • JJ Keller

All cases accepted into Turner's case load are not delegated or assigned to a junior type consultant. All work (less clerical) is directly handled directly by Scott L. Turner. 

    PO Box 185                                  PO Box 44
    Blairstown, New Jersey 07825         Spencer, Tennessee 38585
    908-496-4273                              423-881-5469

               Email: SLTurner@SLTurnerConsulting.com