Expert witness, ASPEJURE member · Transport & logistics

From the road to the courtroom

I spent years behind the wheel of an articulated truck, I have driven forklifts in the warehouse and wrestled with analogue and digital tachographs. Today I turn all that experience, together with my technical and expert training, into expert reports the judge understands — reports that are defended and argued in the courtroom.

Tell me about your case How I quote

I travel wherever needed: all of Spain
Fixed written quote before any work starts
I defend the report in court
Reports and hearings in Spanish and Catalan

Cases I take

Three specialities, the same rigour

I am not one of those generalist experts who value a flat today and a truck tomorrow. I only work on what I know first-hand: tachographs, heavy vehicles and warehouse machinery.

Speciality 01

Tachograph and driving times

I managed analogue and digital tachographs for years, both as a driver and running companies. I know how to read what the printouts, cards and files say (and what they hide). And I know how to turn it into court evidence. Qualification: Court Expert in Digital Tachographs and Driving Times (300 h).

Claims for drivers’ overtime and subsistence allowances (and the company’s counter-report)
Pleadings and appeals against Transport Inspectorate penalties (driving and rest times)
Detection of tachograph tampering and card forgery
Accident reconstruction using speed, braking and prior-rest records
Download audits and file custody (card every 28 days, vehicle unit every 3 months, 365-day retention)
Employment disputes between company and driver: dismissals, prohibited bonuses, refusal to hand over the card

Speciality 02

Heavy vehicle appraisal

I come from mechanics and the motor trade: I know how to look underneath a truck before putting a price on it. I appraise trucks, tractor units, trailers and buses with a physical inspection, real market data and the ITV (roadworthiness) and DGT history. Qualification: Court Expert in Appraisal of Trucks, Trailers and Buses (300 h).

Independent counter-appraisal against the insurer after an incident (rollover, collision, fire)
Hidden defects and mileage fraud in used-vehicle sales
Book and market value: court appraisals, inheritances, divorces and insolvencies
Settlement of leasing and renting contracts, seizures and third-party ownership claims
Value adjustment for an unfavourable or failed ITV inspection (real cost of repair)
Special bodywork and ADR: cranes, hook-lifts, tankers, refrigerated trucks, car transporters

Speciality 03

Warehouse and lifting machinery

I have driven forklifts and I know where the danger hides: a badly placed load, an unserviced machine, an untrained operator. When the accident happens, that is exactly what I analyse. Qualification: Court Expert in Forklift Trucks (300 h).

Workplace accident investigation: rollover, entrapment, falling loads, lifting of persons
Benefit surcharges and safety infringements (RD 1215/1997, LPRL)
Criminal expert work in serious or fatal accidents: causal link and safety measures
Civil liability for injury to persons and damage to goods and facilities
Machine conformity: CE marking, adaptation of older equipment, operator training and written authorisation
Fires and explosions in battery charging rooms; valuation of equipment and fleets

€4,001-6,000 The fine for tampering with the tachograph or the speed limiter (art. 140.10 LOTT), rising to 6,001-18,000 € for repeat offences. Detecting it — or dismantling the accusation — is expert work.

56 days That is how many days of records they can demand at a roadside check today: the current day plus the previous 56, since 31-12-2024. Those files are where overtime claims — and penalty appeals — are won.

38 of 160 Forklift accidents analysed by the INSHT (Spanish safety institute) in which the leading cause was an untrained driver. Written authorisation decides almost everything.

Every 6 months That is how often a truck over 10 years old must pass its ITV inspection. Its history is the technical evidence judges trust most when setting a value.

Who I work for

Expert evidence that stands up at trial

Everyone arrives with a different battle: the lawyer needs evidence that convinces the judge, the company needs an unfair penalty overturned, and the driver needs to get paid for the work done. I put the data on the table.

Law firms

I give you a flawless technical report with a traceable methodology, and I defend it in court against the opposing expert. No hollow jargon: conclusions the judge grasps at first reading.

Transport and logistics companies

I have run companies and I know how much an Inspectorate penalty, a dispute with a driver or a fleet incident hurts. I defend you with data, not talk.

Insurers

Independent damage assessment for industrial vehicles and machinery, and counter-reports when the figures do not add up. With the vehicle inspected in person, not from a photo.

Drivers and private clients

Are you owed overtime and allowances? Your driver card tells the whole story, and I know how to make the judge see it. Sold a truck with a nasty surprise? We prove that too.

Party-appointed or court-appointed expert. I work on direct instruction from you or your lawyer, and also by court appointment (art. 341 LEC). In both cases, one same rule applies: the report says what the data says.

The difference

Most experts have never used a tachograph, never driven a truck and never once operated a forklift.

I first trained in general mechanics and the motor trade, then earned my living on the road, and then trained thoroughly to issue expert reports and defend your rights in court.

First, the workshop

My foundation is general mechanics and the motor trade. Nobody needs to explain a truck to me with slides: I know how it works inside and where to look when something does not add up.

Then, the road and the warehouse

I have driven articulated trucks, operated forklifts and managed analogue and digital tachographs, as a driver and running companies. I know your day-to-day because it was mine.

And now, the courtroom

An expert witness and ASPEJURE member, with LEC-compliant reports the judge understands at first reading. And one non-negotiable rule: the report says what the data says. If your case has no legs, I tell you before charging you anything.

Who I am

Pedro Mulero Sánchez

More than 30 years of experience across the workshop, the warehouse and the road. That is the value I bring when defending your interests in the courtroom.

I trained in mechanics and the motor trade and I have earned my living in the world of industrial machinery since 1991: import/export, sales and after-sales of traction batteries, heading the technical service and spare parts for forklift trucks, industrial spare-parts management and, in recent years, road transport operations and fleet maintenance support. I have driven trucks holding the CPC and ADR certificates, and I have stood up for workers as a staff and health-and-safety representative. Combustion engines, the tachograph, trucks and forklift trucks are not things I know from a course alone: they have been and still are my trade — and today, my expert-witness qualifications too.

Court Expert in Digital Tachographs and Driving Times — qualification issued by the ASPEJURE training centre (Asociación Profesional Colegial de Peritos Judiciales del Reino de España), 300 hours, passed with distinction and valid throughout Spain.
Court Expert in Appraisal of Trucks, Trailers and Buses — qualification issued by the ASPEJURE training centre (Asociación Profesional Colegial de Peritos Judiciales del Reino de España), 300 hours, passed with distinction and valid throughout Spain.
Court Expert in Forklift Trucks — ASPEJURE qualification, 300 hours, passed with distinction; lifting and warehouse machinery, overhead cranes included.
Self-propelled vehicle mechanics: from the workshop floor to heading forklift service and spare-parts departments — the foundation of my heavy vehicle appraisals.
Road transport: C+E and D+E driving licences, professional CPC certifications for goods and passengers, ADR basic and tanker certificates, operations and fleet.
Business management: years running technical service, spare parts and operations — I understand the technical case and the business behind it.

Tell me about your case

Accredited qualifications

What you get

An expert report that can be checked

Expert evidence is not won with adjectives. It is won when the other side tries to take it apart and cannot. That is why every report shows the calculation, cites the rule and carries the raw data in an annex: anyone can redo it step by step and reach the same figure.

Executive summary on page one

What was asked, what comes out and how much it adds up to, in plain language. The judge, the prosecutor and the parties know what the case is about before reaching the technical part. The detail follows, for whoever wants to argue it.

Four working-time calculations, not one

Overtime is measured daily, weekly, fortnightly and annually, and the result changes a great deal depending on which one governs. A report that runs only one leaves hours unclaimed or claims hours that are not due. Here all four appear, with an explanation of which one prevails under your collective agreement.

Your real working calendar, not a pro rata

National, regional and local public holidays for your province, and holidays placed where they were actually taken. This is no detail: the gap between calculating this way and estimating a pro rata runs to more than a hundred hours a year, and those hours are either paid or lost.

Legislation and case law cited, not merely invoked

Regulation (EC) 561/2006, Royal Decree 1561/1995, the Spanish Workers’ Statute and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Spanish Supreme Court on working time. With the specific article and judgment, so your lawyer can use them as they stand.

A digital fingerprint for every file and for the report itself

Every card analysed carries its SHA-256 fingerprint in the report, and so does the report delivered. If anyone disputes that the file is the same one, it takes a minute to check. Chain of custody stops being a phrase and becomes a number.

Annexes with the raw data

The day-by-day record, the rest periods, the vehicles driven and the places declared. No summary tables without a source: if a figure in the body of the report is disputed, the data behind it is there.

Your data never leaves my machine. Cards, payslips and documentation are analysed entirely offline, with nothing uploaded to any cloud service. This is stated in the report itself, and it is what handling an identified worker’s data demands.

How I work

From engagement to courtroom

A clear process, with a fixed written quote before we start and no surprises along the way. As it should be.

Feasibility study

You discuss your case with your adviser, or using the Driver Lex and Driver Docs apps on the Driver Solution portal, and you want to know the real scope and viability of the matter: this is where technical-expert advice comes in. You tell me the case and I review all the evidence before accepting the engagement. If the claim has legal legs, we get to work — and if it does not, the consultation will have cost you nothing.

Technical analysis

I study in depth the TGD/DDD files extracted from your driver card, downloaded with an approved reader — for which you can use, completely free of charge, the Driver Tacho a

Driver Solution portal. I analyse the printouts and the technical documentation of the truck, trailer or forklift, and from this documentary evidence I carry out your technical-expert analysis.

Expert report

In accordance with articles 335 et seq. of the LEC (Spanish Civil Procedure Act — Law 1/2000, of 7 January), I draft and issue the technical-expert report in plain, clear language (in Spanish and/or Catalan, depending on the Autonomous Community where the legal action is brought) so that everyone in the courtroom can interpret and understand it.

Defence in the courtroom

My work does not end when the expert report is issued. I go with you to court, where I ratify and defend the report before the Tribunal and answer questions from the judge, the prosecutor and the parties.

Quotation

A fixed quote before any work starts

Every matter has its own scope, and putting the same label on all of them would be misleading you. What I do guarantee is the procedure: first I look at what you have, then I tell you whether the case stands up, and only then do I give you a fixed figure in writing. That figure does not move afterwards.

You tell me about the case

No obligation and no charge. Show me what you have: card downloads, printouts, contract, payslips, photographs, earlier reports. That is enough to see where the matter is going.

I tell you whether it stands up

If the evidence will not support a solid report, I say so plainly and that is where it ends, with no invoice. I would rather lose an instruction than sign a report that collapses at the first hearing.

Quote in writing

A fixed figure, with the scope set out and the deadline committed. If I need to travel to inspect the vehicle or the machine, or to attend the hearing, it is included and you see it before accepting.

I start when you accept

Payment on account on acceptance and the balance on delivery. The clock starts when the documentation is complete, not before: without the collective agreement or the payslips the calculation does not hold.

Why I can keep the price this low. Much of the work that takes others days —reading the cards, building the working calendar, checking the four working-time limits, assembling the annexes— is done by a tool I built myself and that runs only on my machine. The expert judgement, the legal reading and the signature are still mine, and they are what you are actually paying for. What you save is the typing hours, and that saving goes into your quote.

FAQ-Frequently asked questions

What people ask before engaging me

Do you work all over Spain?

Yes. I analyse tachograph data and documentation remotely; to inspect a vehicle or a machine, or to attend trial, I travel wherever needed.

Party-appointed or court-appointed expert?

Both. As a party-appointed expert, the report is filed with your claim or your defence; as a court-appointed expert, the court appoints me from the roster. The rigour is the same: the report says what the data says.

How do I know if my case has legs?

Tell me what happened and show me what you have: tachograph files or printouts, contracts, invoices, photos, previous reports. With that I do a no-obligation feasibility study. And if the evidence will not support a solid report, I tell you straight and do not make you spend money.

In what language is the report written?

In Spanish or Catalan, whichever suits you and the court where it will be filed. In the courtroom I can defend it equally in either language.

Do you work for the company or for the driver?

For whoever engages the report: sometimes it is the company defending against a claim, sometimes the driver claiming what is owed. The sector's big advisory firms only work for companies; I am an independent expert, and my report says what the data says, whoever hires it.

How much does an expert report cost?

It depends on the scope, which is why I will not put a label on it before looking at your case. The procedure is always the same: a feasibility study at no charge, then a fixed written quote that does not move. What I can tell you upfront is that I work below what is usual in court expert work, because the mechanical part of the job is automated and I pass that saving on to you.

Why is the tachograph report always annual?

Because overtime is set against the annual figure (arts. 34.1 and 35.1 of the Spanish Workers’ Statute). A single month can show whether driving limits were exceeded, but not how many overtime hours are due or what they are worth. Selling you a monthly report would mean charging for something you cannot then use to claim. If what you want is month-by-month monitoring, that is what Driver Tacho is for, which is a different thing and costs a fraction of this.

How long does it take?

Ten working days from the moment I have all the documentation, not from the moment we speak. That distinction matters: the clock does not start while the collective agreement, the contract or the payslips are missing, because without them the calculation does not hold. If there is a hearing date looming, tell me at the outset and we will see whether we make it.

What documents do you need from me?

It depends on the matter, but for tachograph work the essentials are the driver-card downloads for the whole period, the employment contract, the applicable collective agreement and the payslips. When we accept the instruction I send you the exact list, marking what is essential and what merely helps, with the reason for each document. No asking you for whole folders just in case.

How do I know the report is not slanted in my favour?

It is not, and that is why the report shows the calculation and carries the raw data in an annex: you can redo it, and so can the other side’s expert. A report that only holds up if nobody checks it is a report that collapses at the first hearing. Mine says what the data says, and if the data does not support you I would rather tell you before charging you.

Contact

Tell me about your case

Explain it in your own words, as you would tell a colleague. I know the world of the trucker, the bus driver, the warehouse staff and the lawyer who needs a flawless technical report. I will reply with an initial assessment and, if the case deserves it, a fixed quote.

I reply within 24-48 working hours
Based in Tarragona, working across Spain
Feasibility study and fixed quote, no obligation
If you prefer, call me: (+34) 877 64 12 52