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Page 1front matter

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF EXAMPLE
HARBOR POINT LOGISTICS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
vs. Civil Action No.
1:24-cv-01234
NORTHGATE FREIGHT, LLC,
Defendant.
______________________________
VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF
JOHN A. SMITH
Taken on behalf of the Plaintiff
June 14, 2024
10:02 a.m.
Example City, Example State
Reporter: Dana R. Whitfield, CSR
Example Reporting Group
(555) 010-0100

Page 2

FOR THE PLAINTIFF: AMARA OKAFOR, ESQ.
FOR THE DEFENDANT: DANIEL BAKER, ESQ.
ALSO PRESENT: LEE PARK, VIDEOGRAPHER
JOHN A. SMITH,
having been first duly sworn, was examined and
testified as follows:
EXAMINATION
BY MS. OKAFOR:
Q. Good morning, Mr. Smith. Please state your full
name for the record.
A. John Allen Smith.
Q. And where are you employed?
A. I am the director of operations at Northgate
Freight, LLC.
Q. How long have you held that position?
A. Since March of 2019. Before that I was a regional
dispatch manager for about six years.
Q. I am handing you what has been marked as Exhibit 1.
Do you recognize it?
A. Yes. That is the master transportation agreement
between Northgate and Harbor Point.
Q. Did you sign that agreement on behalf of Northgate?
A. I did, on June 3, 2022.
MR. BAKER: Objection. Form. You can answer.
THE WITNESS: I signed it after our legal department had

Page 3

reviewed the schedules.
Q. Did you personally read Schedule B, the temperature
requirements, before you signed?
A. I skimmed it. I relied on legal and on our
operations team for the details.
Q. Who on the operations team?
A. Our compliance lead, Priya Nair, and the lane
managers.
Q. What was your understanding of the temperature
requirement for refrigerated loads?
A. That trailers had to hold between thirty-four and
thirty-eight degrees for the entire transit.
Q. Was that understanding communicated to your
drivers?
A. It was in the dispatch notes for every refrigerated
load, and drivers acknowledged the notes on their
handhelds.
Q. Were those acknowledgments retained?
A. For ninety days. After that they roll off the
system.
Q. Who had access to those records during the ninety
days?
A. Dispatch, the lane managers and compliance. Drivers
could see only their own acknowledgments.
Q. Who had the authority to turn that access off?

# Deposition of John A. Smith

Cite as Smith Dep. page:line, for example Smith Dep. 45:12–46:3. Pages 1–3, 25 numbered lines per page. Converted from a PDF by software: check every quotation against the certified transcript before you rely on it.

## Page 1 (front matter, not in turns index)

1:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
1:2 FOR THE DISTRICT OF EXAMPLE
1:3
1:4 HARBOR POINT LOGISTICS, INC.,
1:5 Plaintiff,
1:6 vs. Civil Action No.
1:7 1:24-cv-01234
1:8 NORTHGATE FREIGHT, LLC,
1:9 Defendant.
1:10 ______________________________
1:11
1:12 VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF
1:13 JOHN A. SMITH
1:14 Taken on behalf of the Plaintiff
1:15 June 14, 2024
1:16 10:02 a.m.
1:17
1:18 Example City, Example State
1:19
1:20
1:21
1:22
1:23 Reporter: Dana R. Whitfield, CSR
1:24 Example Reporting Group
1:25 (555) 010-0100

## Page 2

2:1 FOR THE PLAINTIFF: AMARA OKAFOR, ESQ.
2:2 FOR THE DEFENDANT: DANIEL BAKER, ESQ.
2:3 ALSO PRESENT: LEE PARK, VIDEOGRAPHER
2:4 JOHN A. SMITH,
2:5 having been first duly sworn, was examined and
2:6 testified as follows:

2:7 EXAMINATION

2:8 BY MS. OKAFOR:

2:9 Q. Good morning, Mr. Smith. Please state your full
2:10 name for the record.

2:11 A. John Allen Smith.

2:12 Q. And where are you employed?

2:13 A. I am the director of operations at Northgate
2:14 Freight, LLC.

2:15 Q. How long have you held that position?

2:16 A. Since March of 2019. Before that I was a regional
2:17 dispatch manager for about six years.

2:18 Q. I am handing you what has been marked as Exhibit 1.
2:19 Do you recognize it?

2:20 A. Yes. That is the master transportation agreement
2:21 between Northgate and Harbor Point.

2:22 Q. Did you sign that agreement on behalf of Northgate?

2:23 A. I did, on June 3, 2022.

2:24 MR. BAKER: Objection. Form. You can answer.

2:25 THE WITNESS: I signed it after our legal department had

## Page 3

3:1 reviewed the schedules.

3:2 Q. Did you personally read Schedule B, the temperature
3:3 requirements, before you signed?

3:4 A. I skimmed it. I relied on legal and on our
3:5 operations team for the details.

3:6 Q. Who on the operations team?

3:7 A. Our compliance lead, Priya Nair, and the lane
3:8 managers.

3:9 Q. What was your understanding of the temperature
3:10 requirement for refrigerated loads?

3:11 A. That trailers had to hold between thirty-four and
3:12 thirty-eight degrees for the entire transit.

3:13 Q. Was that understanding communicated to your
3:14 drivers?

3:15 A. It was in the dispatch notes for every refrigerated
3:16 load, and drivers acknowledged the notes on their
3:17 handhelds.

3:18 Q. Were those acknowledgments retained?

3:19 A. For ninety days. After that they roll off the
3:20 system.

3:21 Q. Who had access to those records during the ninety
3:22 days?

3:23 A. Dispatch, the lane managers and compliance. Drivers
3:24 could see only their own acknowledgments.

3:25 Q. Who had the authority to turn that access off?

Cite	Speaker	Text
	—	FOR THE PLAINTIFF: AMARA OKAFOR, ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT: DANIEL BAKER, ESQ. ALSO PRESENT: LEE PARK, VIDEOGRAPHER JOHN A. SMITH, having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
	—	EXAMINATION
	—	BY MS. OKAFOR:
	Q	Good morning, Mr. Smith. Please state your full name for the record.
	A	John Allen Smith.
	Q	And where are you employed?
	A	I am the director of operations at Northgate Freight, LLC.
	Q	How long have you held that position?
	A	Since March of 2019. Before that I was a regional dispatch manager for about six years.
	Q	I am handing you what has been marked as Exhibit 1. Do you recognize it?
	A	Yes. That is the master transportation agreement between Northgate and Harbor Point.
	Q	Did you sign that agreement on behalf of Northgate?
	A	I did, on June 3, 2022.
	MR. BAKER	Objection. Form. You can answer.
	THE WITNESS	I signed it after our legal department had reviewed the schedules.
	Q	Did you personally read Schedule B, the temperature requirements, before you signed?
	A	I skimmed it. I relied on legal and on our operations team for the details.
	Q	Who on the operations team?
	A	Our compliance lead, Priya Nair, and the lane managers.
	Q	What was your understanding of the temperature requirement for refrigerated loads?
	A	That trailers had to hold between thirty-four and thirty-eight degrees for the entire transit.
	Q	Was that understanding communicated to your drivers?
	A	It was in the dispatch notes for every refrigerated load, and drivers acknowledged the notes on their handhelds.
	Q	Were those acknowledgments retained?
	A	For ninety days. After that they roll off the system.
	Q	Who had access to those records during the ninety days?
	A	Dispatch, the lane managers and compliance. Drivers could see only their own acknowledgments.
	Q	Who had the authority to turn that access off?

3 pages (1–3), 25 lines per page: no problems found

Page numbers were read from the top of each page.
p. 1 Page 1 looks like front matter (caption, appearances) with no Q/A. It is in the Markdown but left out of the turns index.

Clean checks mean the page and line sequence is consistent in the converted text. They do not prove the text matches the PDF; check every quotation against the certified transcript.

Pages found: 3 (1–3)
Layout: full page
Page numbers: 3 read from the page (top of page), 0 inferred
Lines per page: 25
Turns indexed: 28 (12 Q, 11 A, 2 colloquy, 3 notes)
Not in turns index: 1 front
Headers/footers removed: “Example Reporting Group | (555) 010-0100”
Deponent: John A. Smith

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What text with line numbers means here

Transcript text with line numbers is the testimony as plain text in which each line carries the page and line number it had in the PDF: 2:9, 2:10, 2:11 and so on. It is for the moment when you need to cite or compare a passage and do not want to open the PDF each time.

The numbers are ordinary characters at the start of each line, so the text pastes anywhere. Nothing about the format depends on a particular program.

How it works

Convert the transcript

Use the workbench above. The sample shows what the result looks like before you spend your free conversion on a real file.
Leave the output on Numbered lines

This is the format that puts the page and line in front of every line. Clean paragraphs are for reading and carry a range at the start of each paragraph instead.
Check where the page numbers come from

Open Checks. It says whether page numbers were read from the top or bottom of the page or inferred. If they were read from the wrong place, change Page numbers under Options and the text is re-formatted at once.
Copy the text

Copy Markdown puts the text on the clipboard. Download .md saves it. Both are plain text, and the numbers are ordinary characters at the start of each line.

Before and after

On the left, a page of the sample as a PDF converter can hand it over: the number in front of each line and no page. On the right, the same lines as DepoScript writes them. Both were produced by running this site's code on the sample.

Line numbers only

9 Q.   Good morning, Mr. Smith. Please state your full

10 name for the record.

11 A.   John Allen Smith.

12 Q.   And where are you employed?

13 A.   I am the director of operations at Northgate

Page and line on every line

2:9 Q. Good morning, Mr. Smith. Please state your full
2:10 name for the record.

2:11 A. John Allen Smith.

2:12 Q. And where are you employed?

2:13 A. I am the director of operations at Northgate

The page number was found at the top of the page, so every line now starts with 2:. A cite for the first answer is Smith Dep. 2:11, and a cite for the first question is Smith Dep. 2:9–10.

Page and line options

The defaults work for the usual layout. Change an option only when Checks tells you something looks off.

Page numbers: Detect, top of page or bottom of page. Detect tries both and says in Checks which one it used.
Lines per page: 25 unless you choose 24, 26, 28 or 30. A page that does not have the number you set is flagged.
First page number: Used only when the PDF prints no page numbers. Pages are counted up from it, and each is marked as inferred.

Compared with the other routes

General descriptions of copying by hand and of generic PDF-to-text tools. Results vary by tool and by PDF.
Aspect	Copy from the PDF by hand	Generic PDF-to-text	DepoScript
Margin numbers	Selected and copied apart from the text, then lined up by eye.	Come out as a separate list of numbers, or in the middle of sentences.	Put back in front of the line they belong to.
Blank numbered lines	Skipped, so later lines look one number out.	Dropped, so the count slips.	Kept. A blank line keeps its number, so line 3 is still line 3.
Page numbers	Read off each page and typed in.	Left in the running text or lost.	Read from the printed label at the top or bottom of the page and added to every line. Numbers worked out from neighbouring pages are labelled.
Pages with another line count	You count the lines.	Not noticed.	Lines per page can be set under Options, and a page that does not match is flagged.
A line that did not come through	Noticed if you happen to read the PDF alongside.	Not noticed. Later lines slide up one.	Kept as [line not extracted], so later lines keep their numbers, and listed in Checks.

What it does not do

Before you rely on it

The text is a machine reading of a PDF. A number can be attached to the wrong line, and a word can be misread, without the sequence checks noticing. Check every quotation against the certified transcript before you file or send it.

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Questions

Why do the line numbers disappear when I copy from the PDF?

Transcripts are typeset with the line numbers in a column of their own at the margin. Many PDF viewers copy that column as one block or mix it into the text, and what you get depends on how the reporter's software produced the file. Putting each number back on its line is the job this page is about.

Can I get a .txt file?

The download is a .md file, which is plain text. Rename it to .txt, or paste the text where you need it. The Numbered lines format is ordinary characters, with no Markdown syntax in the lines themselves.

Does it keep blank numbered lines?

Yes. A numbered line with nothing on it stays on the page with its number, so line 4 is still line 4 and the lines after it are not renumbered.

My transcript has 24, 28 or 30 lines on a page.

Choose the number under Options, where Lines per page offers 24, 25, 26, 28 and 30. A page that does not match the setting is flagged in Checks.

The page numbers are at the bottom of the page.

Leave Page numbers on detect, or choose bottom of page under Options. The text is re-formatted in your browser as soon as you change it.

What if the PDF prints no page numbers?

Pages are then counted from the number you enter as First page number under Options, and each page is marked as inferred in the page view and in Checks. Check the first page against the printed transcript before you rely on the rest.

What does [line not extracted] mean?

A numbered line was found in the sequence but its text could not be read. The placeholder holds the number so that the lines after it stay correct. The Checks tab lists the page. Read the line in the PDF before you quote around it.

Will the line numbers always be right?

The sequence is checked: a repeated number, a skipped number, a short page or numbers that may have shifted are flagged. A fault that leaves the sequence intact, such as text attached to the wrong number, may not be caught. Check each quotation against the certified transcript.

Can I paste the text into Word and keep the numbers?

The numbers paste as ordinary characters at the start of each line. Word does not treat them as its own line numbering, so they stay put when you edit around them and do not renumber if you delete a line.

How many pages can I convert?

Free: 1 file per day, up to 10 pages, no account. Pro and Firm take files up to 150 pages. A 300-page transcript is over the current 150-page file limit. Split the PDF into parts of 150 pages or fewer and convert each part. Page numbers are read from the printed pages, so cites keep the transcript's own numbering; if a part prints no page numbers, set the first page number under Options.