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?
Preventable/Non-preventable???
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by organicfrmr, Nov 18, 2012.
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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.
TRKRSHONEY Thanks this. -
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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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
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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.
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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.
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