hard braking

A lot of companies pull the data regularly and screen it for these hard braking type events, so if you're driving style is prone to requiring a hard brake every month or two, maybe you need to adjust your driving style. Or the g-sensor in your truck could be out of calibration/spec and logging events that perhaps shouldn't have met the threshold.

Look at it from the employers or insurers viewpoint then make your decision realizing that hard brakes are 70% the result of following to close or inattentiveness, either one a cause for concern if this happens "regularly".

 

You've got a couple of options. First, to protect yourself log each event when, how, and where. Second, if you like the company then you might take a look at your driving. Try leaning the steps used in the Smith System. You might even ask your employer if you could attend their class. Third, with your experience you shouldn't have a problem finding another job. Maybe that's not an option but with your years behind the wheel it should count for something. If not I'd leave. Just my 2 cents.

 

You tell them your explanations, all they hear are excuses. Doubt it'll be different at any decent company, best adjust your driving habits to avoid situations where hard braking is required, if possible. I don't know what those situations were, so I can't say for sure. You might have to be overly cautious 99% of the time to be prepared for that 1% when it'll pay off.

 

Next time plough straight into the next car to pull in front of you, when they asked what happened tell them you didn't want to lose your job by braking too hard!

 

get a dashcam and have evidence of what occured

 

I had 49 hard braking events in a 3 month period. You had to be going over 20 mph for the event to record. Most of mine occurred while bobtailing while either raining or on a certain bumpy road. They kept making an issue about it and I really had no answers except that it happened a lot on wet pavement. Safety plugged a laptop into the truck and downloaded info. Received a letter 2 weeks later that I only had 1 event in that 3 month period. I was never told why but I think the wheel with the sensor was locking up. The hard braking events continued until I was given a new truck and they stopped.

 

Answers simple dont use your truck brakes use the trailer brakes, sensors are not on the trailer but the truck. Only time I use my truck brakes is when I am bobtailing and then just to come to a complete stop. Then again I own my truck so using their brakes up instead of mine is my way to keeping some of my repair costs down.

 

A lot of company trucks don't have a trailer brake. I think I only ever drove one truck that had a trailer brake.

 

I agree, but if you are having these incidents because of your driving style, you need to change. If it is happening because of circumstances beyond your control, the video would be hard to argue with.