Accidents on private property?

Depends on how much of the hood was taken with it lol. Most trucks that get their hood mirrors taken off also get their hood taken off.

 

Only 10k? Pfft
Lear out of Southfield was a habitual offender. 20k a minute fines were common and just the cost of doing business. When truckers hit guardrails or other cars, reported, parked the semis and grabbed another out of the shipping lot. We always had 3 rental ryders ready to go and a temp staffing agency ready to send drivers during a perfect storm, Packer Games & Deer Hunting. I never saw the labor invoices but it was "said" the agency was billing around $200 an hour for one on demand driver.

In 2008 when the great recession was warming up i watched a production superintendent on 2nd shift pay a brokerage firm $16k in fuel arrears on his company cc to keep production running at another manufacturer up by Milwaukee. No fault of our company.

Time is money is an understatement until you work JIT for one of the big boys. Semi's and their cargo are no exception and often what supplies them unless they have a dedicated rail spur like Generous Motors.

 

It is their choice to run things with that tight of a time window.

(And isn't the receiver the delivery point?)

 

Well, it's the customer's choice. Yes it's the company I work for choice to accept the contract, but the customer (well the 3pl the customer hires, Ryder in GM's case) sets the schedule.
Doesn't change my point that downtime is no big deal....

And yes, I meant shipper in the first sentence (edited). Though it's kinda muddy in even saying that. It's a circle. Pick up empty rack at the plant, go to the supplier and unload the empty racks. Load full racks and go to the assembly plant and unload the full racks and get empty racks. Rinse and repeat. It's so rare to pull an actual empty trailer we have to jump through hoops to get approved to do it.

 

That question was a cynical question directed at people that get on high horses about a snitch. ME? I am 100% CMA!

 

Amen!

 

Rhetorical scenario #2 Flatbed driver has a load of forklifts/tractors etc. Driver is parked for his 10 hour break inside getting dinner and a shower. Van driver is taking the spot next to him. Woops he backs into the FB load and damages 2 units on the FB. You were the only person that saw this happen and there were no cameras so van driver pulls out and goes down the road to stop somewhere else. That FB driver will be blamed by his company (all drivers lie) so safety assumes the FB driver hit something prior to shutting down damaging the load. Your no snitch policy just let an unsafe driver leave endangering the motoring public, possibly got the FB driver fired, and made that FB driver undesirable to other companies as he now has a preventable at fault accident on his DAC report. You effectively screwed over an otherwise good driver while protecting the unsafe driver. This is what your no snitch policy would be proud of?

 

Wokeness is like a cancer and now it's infecting the trucking industry. Truck drivers on the rampage trying to cancel each other.

 

Please work on your reading comprehension. I was ATTACKING no-snitch policies!

 

Politics is beyond the scope of this forum. I will just say this. I don't turn drivers in just because it makes me feel good because IT DOES NOT! I also don't turn them in for meaningless crap. I do turn them in. In fact, I was in the Facebook group this morning and reading about a driver on their way in to be fired most likely tomorrow, yep, a cell phone video of them making a VERY dangerous 180 in busy traffic in Florida. No idea the day this happened.