Swift Fender Bender and Effect on DAC/MVR/Future Employment

Amen and amen. Character and integrity are sadly lacking and I am proud your husband took the high road.

Most trucking companies will hire a driver if he or she has less than 3 preventable accidents in a certain period of time. Hopefully he learns a great lesson from this and it's the only incident he has to report.

 

Within the first 6 months is when you are by the statistics going to have a preventable. So he got that out of his way!

If you rub a mirror on a trailer in the yard someone can report you. PREVENTABLE!

Snap decisions can bite you on the butt.

 

Between 1-3 years is dangerous too. That's when you get the "Pfft, I know what I'm doing. I got this" mentality.

 

I just got a preventable for getting stuck in mud and wrecker pulled my bumper apart, that's not even right that can't get away with that I didnt cause damage tow truck did, they want me to sign something for my accident I'm not signing nothing that says accident I did not have a accident.

Navigation sent me down dead end road no way to back up bill and around curve specially in dark and no way to turn around there was a dirt road to shipper I tried it got stuck, I did Mac 12 and 23 and directions were not availiable for shipper before I left to PU what the hell was I suppose to do.

I plan on Appealing accident they screwed up and gave me both preventable and non preventable for the same innicident, it should only be non preventable I caused no damage, road side told me to keep trying to get it and it made it worse and while I was stuck it started pouring rain to make it even worse

 

Yes, appeal it. Pick your battles carefully on this though, if they insist it is preventable, and you refuse to sign, they may fire you and put it on your DAC anyway.

You have to figure out what your goals are. Do you think you will make more money accepting blame or getting fired and looking for a job which might take 2 weeks to 2 months depending on how the new company weighs your 'incident' and attitude relevant to the whole ordeal.

 

DAC is 10 years as it follows the employer that reported it. I was told this directly from DAC for a issue I had with KLLM

 

They might be looking at it as preventable with this in mind. If did not turn around, if did not get stuck, if did not get lost, then a wrecker would have not been called, no wrecker, no damage. The incident is you turning around ang getting stuck.

 

If no directions, then call your PU and if they do not allow that then call your dispatch for directions. Send everything over the QC. No phone calls. They can put directions in at the drop of a hat and the planners are supposed to keep directions up in the system.

Your navigation device is only a tool.

If the road as you are entering it does not look passable then stop at a safe area and send a msg to your dispatch telling them the road is impassable due a dirt road and very muddy.

If they say continue, then the blame is back on them, but you as the driver hold the final say-so.

Mark