James E. Lewis

James E. Lewis is a multi-faceted author with work in self-help, documentary, fiction, and non-fiction genres. His work ranges from action/adventure, to transportation safety and training, to consumer-friendly automotive ownership books designed to inform car owners about preventive maintenance and how to not get scammed by dealers.

He has regular columns in Tow Professional and Law Enforcement Today magazines.

His unique experience has led him across several careers, actually at the same time. He obtained a Class A CDL in 1987 and has over 2 million accident and ticket free miles. In the transportation industry, he’s worked as a safety manager, terminal manager, driver trainer, and recruiter. He also began working in the towing industry in 1987, started off small-time, and worked his way to massive rotators and other heavy recovery trucks.

He is also the expert witness called on by the nation's top consumer law firms to protect car owners - he's been asked to testify against every major car manufacturer in more than 800 court cases.

Lewis's automotive career started out around age 5, helping his older brothers work on the classic cars of the '60s and '70s. After a career in the Air Force, Lewis finally took his love of autos into the car business - first in sales as a fleet manager and finance manager, then on the service side, where he served as a service manager. He was heavily involved in inventory control, attending auctions to purchase vehicles for dealership stock, as well as evaluating trade-ins during the sales process. His service management experience allowed him to work as a technical instructor at Universal Technical Institute (UTI), where he taught preventive maintenance, suspension and steering, alignments, wheels and tires, and UTI's "Hot Rod University".

Lewis's automotive career eventually led to his expert witness work, beginning in 2001. He specializes transportation safety and automotive cases, with over 12,000 formal, written opinions so far in both defense and plaintiff's cases.