Preventable/Non-preventable???

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by organicfrmr, Nov 18, 2012.

  1. organicfrmr

    organicfrmr Bobtail Member

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    I was on a Gainesville Tx. detour, speed:35mph, enter onramp, trailer learch to the right, felt as though I hit something. Trailer went over on it's side. No one hurt. Minor damage to the truck I was driving. The driver who was behind me stopped to see if I was ok and asked what I had hit, (1am in the morning,dark) We went and looked and from the heat and pressure, there is a foot high mound of asphult on each side of the on-ramp. My trailer tires rolled over that mound at just the right angle to tip the trailer over. The young man told the responding officers this, as a witness. I was not issued a citation, just a case number. Will this go aganist my record as preventable?
     
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  3. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Most likely. Classic too fast for conditions: you failed to visually clear your path. Plus, if a foot tall hump flipped you, you were obviously booking it around a corner you couldn't properly see. Anytime you have to ask what you hit, there's a very high probability you have made a mistake. The only way i see this type of situation as non-preventable would be a failure of the road surface beneath your wheels.
     
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  4. anytrucklldo

    anytrucklldo Bobtail Member

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    I once had a cow hit my truck and slip in between 2nd and 3rd trailer it rolled my third just a point that not every time you ask what did i hit that you make a mistake. that said if you just ensured you had sufficent room to make the corner with your trailer then you would have taken a little wider berth with the truck at the entry to the ramp. or maybe a decent set of driving lights
     
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  5. Okieron

    Okieron Crusty Okie

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    That's an oops on your part. sorry man that's going to an attentive driving and too fast for conditions. it will hurt, but it's survivable. live and learn
     
  6. DonRobbie

    DonRobbie Medium Load Member

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    Probably preventable. Too fast for conditions/struck fixed object. If you keep your job, I'd wait a few years before looking for a better one. Rollovers make it almost impossible to get hired and USIS/DAC keeps records for 7 years.
     
  7. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Yeah, should have included a caveat referencing immovable object. Although I have a feeling that cow went from mobile to immobile in very short course.:biggrin_2559:
     
  8. organicfrmr

    organicfrmr Bobtail Member

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    It wasn't a fixed object sweetie, it was bad road surface, the hump was the road! 35mph is too fast for entering an on ramp? I wasn't turning a corner. just asking.
     
  9. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    Ok.. What, did the road jump out and startle you? Otherwise 'sweetie' it was a fixed object. It many a temporary fixed object, but a bad road may suck (Hey I live in MI, from my OTR days I didn't run into many worse roads) but it's still something you were going too fast for. And yes, 35 is too fast if it causes a rollover by hitting a bad spot in the road.

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