Careless driving citation

Hi everyone, fairly new driver here. Little about myself, I graduated from NETTTS driving school where I acquired my CDL A, and then started driving for Western Express. I did a month training with them and have been driving for them for 2 1/2 months now northeast regional.

About 2 weeks back I had a situation in New Jersey where my Qualcolm (company navigation) went out on me multiple times. When I stopped at an intersection heading what I believed was the right way, I rerouted to find myself in the wrong lane having to take a left down into a residential area. At this point my navigation went out on me again as I started driving and decided to take a left at the next intersection because their was a sign for no trucks if I continued straight. I started down and at this point started to worry because it was getting dark, cars were parked on both sides of the road and it was getting hard to maneuver whenever oncoming traffic came, navigation went out yet again... So I pulled over as best I could turned on my hazards, rerouted and zoomed out my map to figure out the best route to get back to the industrial sector. I have never driven around this area before so I decided to put all my faith into my qualcolm navigation system and take a left turn up ahead that it rerouted me to take. So I get their and it's a one way street in my mind I'm thinking I can't make it down this road.. this is ridiculous but if my navigation tells me I can I must be able to right? At the same time I'm thinking I have no idea if I drive further whats to come it could be a low clearance bridge, or what have you so this may be my best option. So I take the turn as wide as possible grab some sidewalk get 3/4's through the turn and realize I'm not going to make it.. I'm going to take out this freaking light pole if I continue. So I backtracked out slowly what I thought was the same way I turned down at which point I feel resistance and realized I backed into something... Get out and see that on my blind side the rear tractor smashed in part of a fender and a door of a parked suv.

Long story short after that I got a citation careless driving and a court date. I was also almost terminated at Western Express but they decided to give me a refresher course with a trainer and take some road tests

It's frustrating because I feel like I'm a good driver, previous the accident I have had nothing on my driving record or criminal record for the past 15 years.. not even a parking violation. If it wasn't for my navigation I wouldn't have even been in that/this predicament.

Should I look into getting a trucking lawyer? What would be my best course of action? my court date is the 28th of next month. I'm really worried how this might effect future employment if I don't tackle this properly

 

Our company doesn't usually allow communication between truckers and consignee's/shippers, and we are told to rely on our qualcolm navigation above anything else. I hardly have time to drop a deuce at a truckstop let alone plot out my directions with a road atlas before I get my load assignments... It's a lot easier pointing a finger blaming any kind of possible variable I didn't cover being the reason to why I'm "foolish"