My son called me and asked if I could post on his behalf because he just got to his hotel and has to go to sleep now. He has been doing linehaul for an ltl company for just shy of 4 years and has never been involved in a preventable accident. His truck is used by a p&d driver during the day. He did not look closely at everything on the truck before leaving yesterday, just did a pretrip on the essential parts and started his day. He had a long night and drove 600 miles. When he ended the day he noticed the attached damage on the bumper. The bumper on the inside is cracked and the outside there are scrapes and yellow colored abrasions into the plastic. He said there is also a white material on one or 2 places on the bumper that you can see if you look close enough. He said that he did a thorough pre and post trip on his trailers and they touched nothing. He can’t recall anything of concern that happened when he was working. He said it was raining all night and visibility was bad, though, and just because he didn’t see anything that doesn’t guarantee that nothing happened. He wanted opinions about what could this be from - a car or another type of vehicle or from hitting some kind of concrete barrier or other object of some kind. He is very worried about this and was saying that he would rather leave trucking than hurt someone on the road. Obviously no one can say for sure what caused this after the fact but any thoughts from experienced people would be appreciated. Thank you.
Opinion on damage to truck
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Evie3, Nov 12, 2020.
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He missed it so he owns it.
Totally unfair but true.
Had a night driver do that to me once. It had been raining so the road dirt covered the scratches so I didn't notice them. I got lucky. The place he hit was my first dispatch but it got changed at the last minute or I would have been held responsible and fired. If I was in a damaged truck next to a damaged pole who would belive I didn't do it? Worst part is that I thought highly of the guy.
Bad situation, I wish your son well.JForce28, okiedokie and Brettj3876 Thank this. -
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Looks like maybe the driver struck a bollard or something similar in size
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That's pretty big to miss on a pre trip. Really no excuse to miss that
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a bollard is a huge yellow pole, you see at many areas so that people hit that, instead of the building.
he owns it, he did not catch it on hs pre-trip.
he could try to explain this to his company, but i'd venture to guess he'll still own it.
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Does the truck have forward facing camera?
If so, that will show what happened.Northeast Hillbilly, MACK E-6 and bzinger Thank this. -
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Hit and run while he was sleeping at hotel room. Ask hotel to see parking lot cameras. If they have none he’s golden.
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