i need help bad

If there is no way around having to blindside back always take it slow, get out and look many times, and grab a dock worker or other employee to spot you if one is available.

I feel for you. A lot of lessons in trucking are learned the hard way due to the "get em behind the wheel as fast as possible" mentalities most trucking companies adopt. The company I started with had my trainer and I running as a team from day 1. My trainer had no problem letting me drive solo, through the mountains, at night, while he slept in the bunk. Crazyness. I ended up backing into another truck at a truck stop a week later, though thankfully I only bumped the other guy awake without causing any reportable damage to his truck.

Another incident happened my first week out solo when I scratched a parked trailer when blindside backing at a dock. I barely touched the other trailer but it ended up going on my record as an incident. I probably would have been better at backing if my trainer and i would have had even an hour for me to practice during the 3 weeks we were together. We were running so hard that I would drive during the day and he would drive at night and dock at the receiver in the mornings. I was just a logbook to this guy pretty much.

Those two incidents happened three years ago. Since then I have had no accidents or incidents so I can tell you first hand that the growing pains will subside and with experience comes confidence. I wish you the best of luck man. I hope you find someone that will see those incidents as what they were, just learning experiences. Just don't every get into a big hurry, thats when bad things happen.

 

Even the small company I work for requires 2 full years experience, I was lucky when they hired me a year ago, go to farm equipment supply stores, they might need a driver to deliver, at least it will give you time in the seat!

 

Dude, hope you took pictures. If you didn't take pictures then you fighting a loosing battle because it's their word againest yours. Now I've been through 3 companies so I will take it they are all the same in saying "the customer is alway's right!" You see where this is going.

 

Taking pics can save your butt, I took pics at a place where they said I hit the truck, the claim to the insurance company was sent by the other company, but they didn't know I had pics, and in the pics a lot of stuff was replaced at the time I took the pics so they realized that this was from a prior accident and not from me.