If it is a county/state road, the county or state may be liable for repairs with the arguement that non-enforcement caused a liabilty. Commercial or municipal trucking/hauling is regulated by county and state regulations, so it's obvious that those reg's were being violated....prob not worth the lawyer's fees, but you could win it if you tried hard enough. I doubt a muffler outweighs attorney fees on this one. If you want to put time and effort into this yourself, you could get a settlement....easy to class-action any driver on the road if there were many haulers that day.....I dunno, it's just a muffler, right?
