23 year veteran trucker fired!

At 70 years of age and 23 years in, you should have enough to retire. Retire.

 

Im sorry. Rear ending a vehicle or better yet rolling it over are a kiss of death in the continuing employment. Most all companies Ive run with will fire on sight any rear end ticket, careless or reckless driving ticket. They have to. Otherwise the Insurance premiums on them sky rockets among other impacts.

It's a reminder to everyone to wait until 70 before collecting SSA. The difference based on your wages could be as much as a thousand more per month coming to you for life.

There is one other problem. The Trust fund is heading into Negative territory., Too many disabled, retirees and so on with that number growing and too few workers to support them. Judgement day will be roughly 2026 give or take. That means all SS People regardless of situation, even Children on SSI due to deaf (Drug addictions ruin the mind, handicapped in a serious manner unable to live independently) etc will see a total and irrevocable across the board reduction that is permanent to 24% of your total check. Poof all gone. That will post pone the collapse until 2034. I don't think we will have a SS Administration after that year.

Back to the Trooper. He did a great deal of damage writing Careless Driving on the citation. If you have not already get a court date and find a lawyer. If you simply paid the fine, then it's set in stone as a conviction against the husband. It will be 5 to 10 years before it clears from your records, but not cleared from a lifetime MVR.

It's safe to say hes finished with trucking UNLESS he can find a basic dump truck paving outfit who could care less about a stack of damning tickets or bad history of breaking stuff or hurting people with a big rig. By the same token if you find a employer, be prepared to understand the equipment on par will be really bad and will not pass a DOT exam. The boss has a bad habit of fixing just enough to get the materials to the job site and no more than that.

 

That belongs in the grandpa said thread lol. Never heard that one before.

 

Those guys are usually going too fast on the highways (75-85 MPH), riding 5 feet from vehicle rear bumpers, and whatnot. I wonder why is this behavior common among livestock haulers. Is it that most are owner operators or company drivers from small companies with ungoverned trucks? I don’t see how anyone can describe their driving behavior other than reckless. Sure, not all of them.

 

Weird. In all the years I’ve done it I rarely drove over 70 and didn’t tailgate. I’m sure some do. But the majority of them are O/O so why would they risk their equipment like that? Show me one multiple vehicle crash video that has resulted from a livestock truck tailgating and not a governed box truck following too close. I will wait.

 

I usually try to stay out of the “my husband” threads, because they almost always end badly.

I usually try to stay out of the company schmuck safety rant threads because they’re almost always stupid.

But aren’t you the guy who was bragging about how you were taught not to look in your mirrors because you are not liable for anything but what’s ahead of you?

EDIT: I usually stay out of those “I was taught” discussions too.

 

Seems the OP is more worried about her “Modest”style of living. At 70, it’s time to slow down a bit. And I don’t know what an attorney is gonna do to help you besides costing you more. Your husband had an accident, for most companies it’s an instant termination unless you can prove it wasn’t your fault. Again, at 70 is going to be difficult to find employment, specially driving. And just so you don’t think I’m picking on you, I’m 58 and an O/O, I too plan on trucking after 70, been doing it already since 1979. But my issue is when I’m off at home, I do nothing, so I figured might as well keep myself busy and keep on trucking during those golden years because it’s in my BLOOD. My “modest” lifestyle will have nothing to do with it. We still travel quite a bit and if worse came to worse, the “lifestyle” living would have to be “adjusted” to make ends meet. Goodluck to ya.

 

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I know. That’s what I’m saying.

I’m not sure that question can be answered because where would we get that information? What can be said is that tailgating and being the fastest vehicle on the road likely increases your chances of being involved in a rear-end accident. The faster you drive, the longer it takes to stop, the more lane changes you need to make, and for some drivers, the more one tailgates on the left lane while trying to pass a slower vehicle. I see this too often.

Stevens Transport has said in their classrooms that drivers with less than 1.5 years of experience are the ones involved in minor accidents, while the more experienced drivers (1.5+ yrs) have the most serious accidents. I don’t find this surprising at all.