The basic employment relationship between the truck driver and the trucking company may allow your attorney to establish liability under a doctrine known as respondeat superior which holds that the trucking company exercised some degree of control over the driver. Taking this theory further, the injuries sustained were the direct result of an accident which occurred while the driver acted in this employment relationship. When a truck driver operates under an independent contract with a large company, it can be more difficult to establish this third-party company liability and the amount of supervision over the driver by the company must be proven.