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Roots first

My granddad owned KXIT, the Dalhart radio station, from about 1952 to 2001. In a town like Dalhart the radio station isn’t just a business, it’s the town’s voice, the school games and the rodeo and the swap shop and the weather that actually matters. That voice belonged to my family. I grew up with Dalhart in the blood: XIT country, the ranch that built the Texas Capitol, a town that works harder before sunup than most places work all day.

I grew up on the names that mean home to anybody from Dalhart: the XIT Rodeo grounds, the United grocery, the old K-Bob’s steakhouse that used to sit in town. That is not off a map. That is family.

I don’t get to be from everywhere. I’m from there, through family, and I still have people there. That’s why this page exists and why it isn’t like the other pages lawyers write about towns they’ve never stood in.

The crossroads

Three U.S. highways meet in Dalhart: 54, 87, and 385. New Mexico sits a short drive west and Oklahoma a short drive north, which makes the town a working freight crossroads, not a place trucks pass near but a place they pass through. US-87 carries the heavy traffic running between Amarillo and the High Plains north of it. US-54 is the long diagonal between New Mexico and Kansas. And 385 brings its own steady share.

Then add what the town itself ships. The feedyards around Dalhart can hold cattle by the hundreds of thousands, and every one of those animals arrives and leaves on a truck. The dairies send tankers out daily. Grain, hogs, equipment, feed. That is a very large number of loaded rigs moving at highway speed on Panhandle two-lanes, through wind that means it and weather that changes its mind by afternoon.

Most of those drivers do it right. When one of them, or the company behind them, doesn’t, the physics are merciless: an 18-wheeler can weigh 80,000 pounds and your pickup weighs a fraction of that. The people in the smaller vehicle absorb the difference.

The industrial side

The same economy that fills the highways fills the worksites. Feedyards, dairies, grain elevators, processing operations. Augers and PTO shafts (the spinning driveline that powers equipment), grain bins and confined spaces, loaders moving through yards where people are on foot, falls from equipment and structures. Serious industrial injuries are part of Dalhart’s reality, and they’re a core part of my practice.

One thing worth knowing early: in Texas, some agricultural and industrial employers don’t carry workers’ compensation at all. They’re called non-subscribers, and if that’s your employer, your rights change completely, usually in ways that are better for you than people assume. It’s one of the first things I check.

What I do about it

Truck cases run on evidence with an expiration date: the driver’s electronic logs, the maintenance file, the dispatch messages, the data the company would rather nobody ask for. I move on preservation immediately, and my corporate background does the quiet work here, because in trucking and ag the contracts between companies often decide who really pays. I spent years reading exactly that paperwork from the other side of the table.

And you won’t be outspent. Through my association with The Stewart Law Firm, PLLC, my cases run with a full litigation backend and the funding to carry a catastrophic case as long as it takes. If your work touches the oil patch side of the Panhandle, I wrote a whole guide about it.

Serving Dalhart from San Antonio

Plainly: Guy Muller Injury Law’s principal office is in San Antonio, Texas, and I represent injured people statewide. There’s no storefront in town, and I won’t pretend there is. Phone, text, email, and video carry almost everything, and if meeting in person works better for you, we’ll set that up. You never have to travel to San Antonio. Dalhart sits in two counties at once, Dallam and Hartley, and it’s the county seat of Dallam, so plenty of local cases can run through the courthouse right in town. Where yours should run is strategy, and we’ll decide it together.

What it costs

Nothing today, and nothing upfront, ever. I work on contingency: my fee is a percentage of what’s recovered, and it comes out of the recovery, never out of your pocket. If there’s no recovery, you owe me no fee.

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