10 months of driving experience, no incidents. Over the weekend, I was at a Pilot in MD. While I was taking a shower, another driver damaged the front end of my truck because he decided turning wide is optional. I take down information, get photos, then report to Safety Dept. Camera on the truck caught everything. I was parked in a designated spot and all the way back into the spot, so no blame that may be put on me.
Get a call from Safety informing me that I am being written up because I was logged into sleeper berth while out of the truck.
Not sure what to make of this. I understand that technically it's a valid point, but on the other hand, it sure seems to be splitting hairs.
Thoughts?
Edit: Call from Safety came in yesterday.
Written up for being in the shower while logged as sleeper berth.
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by RuralTrucker, Jul 22, 2022.
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Screw that .
Name drop em -
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Sounds like they are just looking for a reason to throw you under the bus. If you were parked in a legal space and off duty, then you should be relieved of responsibility for that accident. The DOT could nitpick your logs, but the company shouldn't have any cause to.
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Ehh... technically they are right but it seems like a pretty dumb reason for a right up. I always did the same thing. Maybe for some reason the insurance won’t cover it because of that, then I could understand but that doesn’t seem very likely.
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Yeah that's poor right there...
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They are splitting hairs and lookin for a scape goat for sure...
Even if you were in the bunk(we will say sleeping),how would that stop the accident anyways. ....
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Log Violation.
Just start logging Off Duty.
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