Opinion on damage to truck

From what he has always told me in the past he never does that. They have vending machines in the one terminal where he can buy a subway sandwich etc. He gets a drink and uses the bathroom in the terminal(s). He has complained that they make him sit and wait at various terminals because the freight isn't ready when it's supposed to be. Often the way it works out he doesn't really have much of a break, if that makes sense. Then he doesn't have much spare time to do anything except drive, what with ltl being so time sensitive. FWIW he has complained that their freight planning leaves a lot to be desired.

 

I'm not defending, he knew that I had chatted here before and wanted me to ask for opinions. I appreciate all of them including yours. I can't speak to why he hasn't chatted here himself. He is doing a lot of chatting with a particular girl in his spare time. He is catching up on a lot of things that he missed earlier in his life.

 

Hi, not directing this at you specifically, just replying because this is the last post at the moment. So, over the past year or two he has had to deadline his truck multiple times even though it's relatively new because he spotted problems that could have become serious during his pretrips. If I'm remembering correctly the last one had something to do with a leaf spring thing (sorry, my eyes start to glaze over while he is telling me about this stuff because I don't understand most of it. That book you have to use to study for your cdl was kind of overwhelming). He normally takes the whole pretripping thing very seriously. Who knows what really happened - maybe the bumper ding was already there and he overlooked it and then he himself scraped a curb on the road during his trip that made the yellow marks (?) It does seem to me like it would be hard to miss the yellow scuff marks. I guess we'll find out and the chips will fall where they are supposed to. I am not really as worried as I might have been in years past. Things have a way of working out for the best even though it may not seem like it at any given moment. Not that there's anything wrong with it but knowing him I doubt he'll try to remove the yellow scuff marks. But he hasn't called and he ought to be back on the road at this point, and I'm not calling him, so I guess we'll see what happens....Thanks for putting up with my invading your space. And it was really helpful to know about the bollard thing because I would have had no idea.