Rookies MUST READ: The nightmare that was supposed to be a step up the career ladder

no actually I took my first 2 very seriously, because I learned from them and make those mistakes again as well as not making any more mistakes. but in retrospect to what other drivers do, mine are very very minor and both were due to inexperience.

My flippant attitude? lol. ok, there Mr. Supertrucker. I forgot, you've been in the cab with me when I drive right? Never had a collison on the road, never hit anyone else, haven't rolled my truck or flipped it. No speeding tickets, I have had all clean inspections, I do my pre-trip every single day. I follow the law, and the road signs and I take my job very seriously as well as the responsibilities that come with it.

A ding in a fairing and a stuck tandem tire in a patch of mud don't make me a bad driver or mean I have a "flippant attitude". I've run the mountains in the dead of winter with chains on, run the mountains in the summer fully loaded and have never smoked my brakes, I don't ride people's bumpers, I don't take curves too fast, or try to do things I know my truck can't possibly do.

I am a very thorough and prepared driver as a result of my first 2 preventables.

I pulled into a distributor that has a tight loading dock area. I've been there multiple times, set up the same way, and did the exact same thing I've done everytime and never before have I ever hit anything.

You can't go in and do a full u-turn and then do a 90º backing job in to the dock slot. you have to go in and start on the left, and keep a trailer width between you and the trucks to your left, you go down a ways and start your u-turn, pull forward and to the right till you can't go anymore. Then you have stop, turn your wheel hard left and back up a few feet, then you turn your wheel hard right and ease forward and you can now complete the u-turn, you pivot the trailer and pull forward, get your truck and trailer straight, and then you 90º back into the dock.

The consignee claims that when I did my pivot manuever the back of my trailer hit the front of one of the parked trucks and left a bunch of scratches on it. But that's not possible because the position of my trailer was perpendicular to the trucks position, and I got 3 times and looked and I had more than enough clearance (about 4') from the front of the trucks even with the pivot. I was careful to take my time, didn't get in a hurry, had no radio on, windows down and using my mirrors. I also opened the doors to the trailer before I did my pivot maneuver. Safety allegedely said there are scratches on the outside of the doors to my truck that match the scratches on the front of the truck. But if my doors were opened and secured to the side of the trailer, then the scratches would be on the inside of the doors, not the outside.

They have a surveillance system, which I know would exonerate me, but the distributor refuses to turn over tape. Also no one was there that day. The distributor was closed, but they left the padlock on the gate unlocked for us, because I got the instructions over my qualcomm, as my dispatcher had worked an arrangement with the shop foreman that we would make delivery on the Saturday even though they were closed.

The physics don't add up, and there was more than enough space between the back of my trailer and the front of their parked truck. Plus the rear of my trailer wouldn't have been close enough to hit the front of the truck. But Werner's Safety Department, just looked at pictures the consignee emailed over, didnt even send out an adjuster, and they used that to determine fault. And I know thats crap because I WAS THERE. I took my time, I got and out looked, I did my job.

Also why I would I leave from the consignee if I had an accident AND KNOWING they have a surveillanace system which is clearly visible on the outside of the building?

I'm not dumb and I'm a pretty good driver. Am I perfect? no. but I would know if I hit something cause I would have felt it. You would feel resistance or an impact. Also probably would have heard it, and I'd have reported it. No way in heck am I going to risk my job by leaving a consignee's premises and not report an accident IF ONE HAD ACTUALLY OCCURRED.